Artists for inaugural issue chosen

Congratulations to the artists below, whose work will grace the pages of the inaugural issue of Midwest Prairie Review

From Laurie Scheer, managing editor of Midwest Prairie Review

We received hundreds of submissions and we have been overwhelmed with the response we received from our writing community since our first announcement about our new journal last summer. Through a number of “sifting and winnowing” sessions we narrowed our search down to the following pieces of prose, poetry, art, photos and one screenplay. The following selections rose to the top of our files during these sessions. The journal’s editorial board then agreed that this material best embodied the spirit and theme for our inaugural issue.

Learn more about the premiere issue contributors:

Karen Loeb	The Barred Owls Have a Party	Poetry
Suzanne Alexander	The Wind and the Will	Short Story
Barb Cranford	Secular Sunday, Heat	Poetry
Marian O’Brien Paul	Cahokia Mounds, Illinois	Poetry
Shoshauna Shy	Wisconsin Woman on her 6th Day	Poetry
Adam Halbur	Moonshine	Poetry
Robert L. Switzer	Inner Light and Outer Darkness	Short Story
Mary Driver-Thiel	Heartland Fair	Short Story
Joan Elliott Gray	Little Chicago	Screenplay
Judy Brackett Crowe	Early Birds	Poetry
Julie A Jacob	Afraid to Fly, Scared to Drive, Will Take Trains	Nonfiction
Mark Liebenow	Bagging Corn	Poetry
Connie Wanek	Walleye	Poetry
Annette Grunseth	The Midwest, Fish for Flowers	Poetry
Judith Zukerman	Passing Through	Poetry
Kelly Jo Brick	Rusted Tassels	Poetry
Ruth Schmidt-Baeumler	Swan Forest	Prose
Dave Gourdoux	A Leg Up	Short Story
Jamie Heiden and T.D. Storm	Raincloud	Short Story, Photograph
Terese Floren	When Butter Flowed in the Streets	Nonfiction
Judy Kolosso	Advisory	Poetry
Kim Diloreto	Herons, Icicles	Art
Sonja Kosler	Prairie Harvest	Art
Irene MacFarland	Harvest	Art
Deborah Lucas	Ice Storm, Out of the Fog, The Evening Sky	Art
Richard Ely	Autumn Prairie	Art
Jonathan Wilde	Untitled	Art
Mark Purcell	Spirits Fill the Hayloft	Art
Gail Moreland	Untitled	Art
Nancy Johnson	Untitled	Art
Robert Moreland	Walk on a Winter's Day	Art

These artists represent the great amount of talent we have within our writing community. This is just a tip of the old iceberg of creative works we have to offer and we hope that in future issues we’ll be able to include more selections.

For now, please join me in congratulating and celebrating these fine artists.

The premiere issue of The Midwest Prairie Review will be available at this year’s Writers’ Institute, April 12-14th and online after the Writers’ Institute. The cost per issue is $4.99. We will have issues at the Institute for you to purchase.

Thank you to our entire writing community for submitting your work. Thank you also for welcoming this new journal, a publication that will be a yearly celebration of our Midwest spirit and energy.

Onward!