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Angry Birds and Semiotics–Who Knew?
Nikki Giovanni–full interview!
Prairie Schooner Writing Prize Winners for 2012
Prairie Schooner is excited to announce the winners of our annual writing prizes! A total of $8,500 is spread over eighteen prizes for work published in our 2011 volume. Prairie Schooner is able to distribute these annual prizes thanks to generous supporters of the literary arts. The highest individual prize is worth $1,500, and there …
Charles Baxter on Politics and Fiction
ZZ Packer on Voice in Fiction
Spring 2012 Cover Preview
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 …