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The Storyteller Firangi: An Interview with Professor Jonathan Gil Harris (Part 1)
Opening Party and Cake
The Prairie Schooner office opened the spring semester with a welcome party and another of Lorna’s Dawes’s specialty cakes, this one in the shape of 20 Windows, Benjamin Busch’s cover art for the winter issue. In keeping with the issue’s colors, the cake was coconut flavored with lime filling, and was identified by several reliable …
Winter Issue Launch Event With Iraq War Veteran Brian Turner
This winter’s Prairie Schooner issue centers around the theme of “War and Conflict,” with a special war portfolio edited by poet and Iraq War veteran Brian Turner. To celebrate, Turner will be speaking at our launch event on Tuesday, February 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Museum at 1155 Q Street in …
The Taste of Your Own Tongue in Your Own Mouth
Newly-Expanded Office Grand Opening
The weeks of hammering and painting are finally over, and just before Thanksgiving we celebrated our office expansion with hors d’oeuvres and a ribbon cutting, complete with oversized novelty scissors! Editor-in-chief Kwame Dawes gave a spirited speech to commemorate the grand re-opening, and UNL English Department Chair Susan Belasco (pictured above) made the coveted snip. …
FUSION 7 Now Online
archives (including work by Joyce Carol Oates, John Kinsella, and Alice Friman), centers around the theme of trees, and is now available online. This latest FUSION also includes photos by Maggie Tobin (her The FUSION series is an online, quarterly publication of
Editors of South Asian Literary Zines & Mags
Traditional editors loom large on the literary scene, and their role as gatekeepers is still seen with some reverence as well as consternation. With the expansion of cyber literary forums, literary zines, e-books, and the social media, I looked around to find a bevy of smart eager editors (who are writers too) steering zines as well as print journals that don’t always cater to the mainstream. The editorial practices of these people are not too different from their traditional counterparts.
Interview with Kevin Simmonds
