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Assessment that Blesses - Andrew Kern

A Contemplation of Nature - Andrew Kern

The Pen of a Ready Writer: Teaching Our Children How to Communicate - Andrew Kern

Mentor - Dr. Vigen Guroian

Further Up and Further In: An Exploration of the Classical Quadrivium - Andrew Kern

What Are We Doing to Our Boys? - James Daniels

Is American Education a Bad Joke? - Andrew Kern

Teaching Boys and Other Kids Who Would Rather Be Playing in Forts - Andrew Pudewa

The Cathedral and the Cave: Meaning-making in the Dark - Gregory Wolfe

A Contemplation of Creation - Andrew Kern

The Denial of Creation and the Double Retreat From the Moral Center - Martin Cothran

A Contemplation of the Divine Image - Andrew Kern

Mimetic Teaching and the Cultivation of Virtue - Andrew Kern

As They Ought To Be: Considering God's Design in a Child - Debbie Harris

The Classical Paradigm - martin Cothran

The Seventh Day and Its Implications on Our Teaching - Dr. Christopher Perrin

20th Century Fragmentation: From Picasso Through the Wasteland - Barbara Elliott

The Place of the Natural Sciences - Laura Berqusit

How the Trivium Prepares the Soul for College - E. Christian Kopff

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FORMA contemplates ancient ideas for contemporary people. We are a community of classical educators and thinkers who seek to better understand the classical tradition and enact it in a contemporary context. 

We are now inviting submissions in the following areas: book reviews, papers, poetry, and opinion pieces.

Our upcoming winter edition will explore the topic of “What is History“. Submissions should relate, either directly or indirectly, to this theme; the author may determine his or her own interpretation and use of the theme.

Please submit your article and a short bio to formamag@circeinstitute.org. Please specify whether you are submitting to the FORMA Symposium (which automatically counts as submission to the Journal) or just the FORMA Journal. Submissions are due by October 31st. By submitting, you are agreeing to allow CiRCE exclusive publication rights to accepted works. Authors maintain the copyright to their own work.

Editor-in-Chief
Katerina Kern
katerina@circeinstitute.org

FORMA contemplates ancient ideas for contemporary people. We are a community of classical educators and thinkers who seek to better understand the Great Books and their influence on contemporary literature and the arts.

The FORMA Review, now open for submissions, seeks to shed light on classic texts. Unlike most journals, we review not only the newest books but the most influential books. Today, many of the Great Books have been sidelined, forgotten, or passed over for more “relevant” texts. We hope to return the classic works of the past to the forefront by sharing new reviews of old books.

We also believe excellence and beauty incite imitation, so we look for the influence of the Classics on modern texts and invite reviews of contemporary works that note this influence on both form and content.

While the content of these book reviews may seem unexpected, the form does not; submitted book reviews should follow the standard form of the book review: summarizing the existing conversation on the topic, noting how the book enters into that conversation, analyzing the content, and assessing the success of the author (summary should only be done to the extent that it enables these four). Submissions should be between 1,000-2,000 words.

Please submit your review and a short bio to formamag@circeinstitute.org. There is no deadline for submission. By submitting, you are agreeing to allow CiRCE exclusive publication rights to accepted works. Authors maintain the copyright to their own work.

Editor-in-Chief
Katerina Kern
katerina@circeinstitute.org