The Schooner Blog
The latest news, interviews, and more from Prairie Schooner
2014 Book Prize Celebration
For the third year, Prairie Schooner will be hosting its annual Book Prize Celebration, mixing readings with artists’ interpretations of its prize-winning books, featuring the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize winners Orlando Ricardo Menes for his poetry collection Fetish and Xhenet Aliu for her short story collection Domesticated Wild Things, along with special music composition …
Billy Ireland and Cartoons That Affect Change
Briefly Noted – March 2014
Six Ways to Commemorate World Poetry Day
Prairie Schooner is taking time to honor the U.N.’s World Poetry Day on March 21, celebrating poetry’s power to communicate rich ideas and grant us insight to places deep within ourselves. The day was proclaimed in 1999 in Paris by the United Nations to both reaffirm poetry’s place in society and recognize its ability to …
The Border Between Sadness & Joy
Air Schooner Hosts Scott Winter and Stacey Waite on NET’s Friday Live
The mistake a lot of publications make is that they just repeat their content on the web, and that just doesn’t work. [The podcast] gives us insight that’s not really insider baseball for writers – it’s really accessible to the whole public. Air Schooner hosts Scott Winter (pictured and quoted above) and Stacey Waite appeared …
Lost Writer Wednesday
Prairie Schooner Returns From AWP
Prairie Schooner was delighted and proud to manage a booth at this year’s Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference in Seattle. In attendance were editor-in-chief Kwame Dawes, managing editor Marianne Kunkel, web editor Paul Hanson-Clark, and a dedicated team of UNL graduate students who ran our booth, spoke with visitors, and passed out …
