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Winter Issue Launch Begins Tomorrow!
Irish Issue Launch Party: Feb 9 & 10
The Prairie Schooner Irish Issue Launch Party, a two-day event at the Sheldon Museum of Art, begins tomorrow (Thursday, February 9) and ends Friday, February 10. This free and open-to-the-public event features award-winning Irish writers included in our Winter 2011 Irish Issue, along with other exciting, Irish-themed festivities. Thursday, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m., Irish …

Celebration Recap
Wheeler Appointed Web Editor
We’re pleased to announce that Theodore Wheeler has been appointed the new Web Editor of Prairie Schooner. Wheeler was previously the Blog and Social Networking Editor. He will be taking over the reins of the online presence from Timothy Schaffert. Wheeler is a fiction writer who lives in Omaha with his wife and daughter. An …
The Web Editor
We’re pleased to announce that Theodore Wheeler has been appointed the new Web Editor of Prairie Schooner. Wheeler was previously the Blog and Social Networking Editor. He will be taking over the reins of the online presence from Timothy Schaffert. Wheeler is a fiction writer who lives in Omaha with his wife and daughter. An …
Audio: Nuala Ní Chonchúir Reads from “Peach”
“Peach” appears in the current issue of Prairie Schooner, the 2011 Winter edition. Also, please note that Nuala Ní Chonchúir will take part in the official Launch Party of the Winter issue next week in Lincoln. On Thursday, February 9, at 2pm, she will participate in a reading and interview at the Sheldon Museum of …
Kwame Dawes in Scotland
If you happen to be in Ayr, Scotland this March for StAnza 2012–Scotland’s international poetry festival–be sure to catch the reading by Prairie Schooner Editor Kwame Dawes on Tuesday, March 13. The event, titled “Kwame Dawes: Poetry from Jamaica,” will take place at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, and begins at 7pm. Read more here.
International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam
