Eighteen Wright State Honors students, most in their first or second year of college, worked collaboratively to create these reading guides for four books, all winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction or nonfiction. I selected the books from among the sixteen fiction and nonfiction books that had won the award since the first award year in 2006. The students came from majors as various as Biological Sciences, Nursing, Motion Pictures, Political Science, Accountancy, Psychology, and English and registered for UH 2010 Peace Literature to satisfy an honors program requirement in the humanities. None of them had heard of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize prior to enrolling in the course. Several of them did not self-identify as readers of literary works, and with one exception only one had read nonfiction outside of textbook assignments. And while many had worked on group projects during their educational experience, none had worked on sustained pieces of collaborative writing such as you see here, revised multiple times and written with an audience other than the teacher in mind.

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Submissions from 2015

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A Changed Man Reading Guide, John Aghishian, April Caulfield, Taylor Clark, Rachel Ewing, Jamie Gaffin, Sarah Gale, Ellie Ganz, Kareem Garrett, Mollie Jones, Erin Laing, Caitlyn Lynch, Sean Mangan, Anna Mills, Rebecca Ramey, Chelsea Ray, Esther Sorg, Alyssa Weisman, and Bethany York

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Brother, I'm Dying Reading Guide, John Aghishian, April Caulfield, Taylor Clark, Rachel Ewing, Jamie Gaffin, Sarah Gale, Ellie Ganz, Kareem Garrett, Mollie Jones, Erin Laing, Caitlyn Lynch, Sean Mangan, Anna Mills, Rebecca Ramey, Chelsea Ray, Esther Sorg, Alyssa Weisman, and Bethany York

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In the Place of Justice Reading Guide, John Aghishian, April Caulfield, Taylor Clark, Rachel Ewing, Jamie Gaffin, Sarah Gale, Ellie Ganz, Kareem Garrett, Mollie Jones, Erin Laing, Caitlyn Lynch, Sean Mangan, Anna Mills, Rebecca Ramey, Chelsea Ray, Esther Sorg, Alyssa Weisman, and Bethany York

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The Sojourn Reading Guide, John Aghishian, April Caulfield, Taylor Clark, Rachel Ewing, Jamie Gaffin, Sarah Gale, Ellie Ganz, Kareem Garrett, Mollie Jones, Erin Laing, Caitlyn Lynch, Sean Mangan, Anna Mills, Rebecca Ramey, Chelsea Ray, Esther Sorg, Alyssa Weisman, and Bethany York