Enter to win one of these 6 awesome books.

This year an Equity and Social  Justice (ESJ) project team in DNRP organized a series of four literary readings called “Reflecting on Race and Racism through Spoken Word, Story, and Conversation” that was open to all King County employees. The purpose was to provide a forum for employees to discuss issues of race and racism to help reject stereotypes, practice empathy, and come to a greater understanding of the roots of inequity and injustice.

The ESJ literary project is also the reason behind this book giveaway open to all employees. To be eligible to receive one of six books by the poets featured in the reading series, simply respond to one of the following prompts:

• The most important thing I learned …
• What I hope to see in future events …
• I didn’t attend any of the events, but I would’ve if …

Send your entries to Rowena Johnson with the subject line ESJ Book Drawing (King County employees only).  Deadline for entering is December 30, 2016. All responses will be included in a random drawing, with winners announced in January 2017. Titles to be given away are

• Aux Arcs by Shin Yu Pai
• Adamantine by Shin Yu Pai
• Digging for Roots by Kiana Davis
• Diglossic in the Second America by Quenton Baker
• This Glittering Republic by Quenton Baker
• Where Bullet Breaks by Casandra Lopez

If you are not among the winners, you can still get easy access to the books. A set will be available for checkout from the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program library.

Turning to books is always a good move. As Sherman Alexie says, “I firmly believe in the power of stories to change the world, and I firmly believe in the power of one story to change one life at a time.”