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Final
Thanks to everybody who stopped by our book fair table, or made it to one of the readings and panels in which our people participated. AWP was a lot of fun this year. We’re grateful to have the opportunity to meet and reconnect with so many great writers and/or people. Plus, we sold out of …
ZZ Packer is Coming to Lincoln!
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln English Department is pleased to welcome fiction writer ZZ Packer as this year’s Writer in Residence from March 6-16. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Packer was recently named one of America’s Young Innovators by Smithsonian Magazine as well as one America’s Best Young novelists by Granta Magazine. Her story collection, …
Day Three
What was going on at AWP today? Here are dispatches from Kwame Dawes, Ted Wheeler, Claire Harlan-Orsi, and Wendy Oleson. Kwame Dawes, Glenna Luschei Editor-in-Chief “The danger of our art is that we labor so hard on our language, on the craft, on the shape of the telling–we question every sentiment the lingers in our …
Day Two
Today’s dispatches from the 2012 AWP Conference in Chicago comes to us from Kwame Dawes, Claire Harlan-Orsi, and Wendy Oleson: Kwame Dawes, Glenna Luschei Editor-in-Chief “Nikky Giovanni glows. She is excited about an event she is planning for Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou–she wants to have the world say good things about them while they …
It Begins…
Comics and the Schooner
New Blog and Social Networking Editor Appointed
Prairie Schooner is pleased to introduce its new Blog and Social Networking Editor, Claire Harlan-Orsi! Harlan-Orsi is a Bloomington, Indiana native. After attending Brown University, she worked as a college counselor for low-income students in Providence and as a youth job developer in Chicago before coming to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to pursue a PhD. …
New Blog and Social Networking Editor, Claire Harlan-Orsi
Poets & Writers News Release on Dawes Honor
DAVID BALDACCI, KWAME DAWES, AND CAROL MUSKE-DUKES TO RECEIVE 2012 BARNES & NOBLE WRITERS FOR WRITERS AWARDS New York, NY – Poets & Writers, Inc. has announced that David Baldacci, Kwame Dawes, and Carol Muske-Dukes are the recipients of the 2012 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and Kathryn Court is the recipient of …