Words in the Wind
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After nearly a century, the NWG still flourishes!
As one of the oldest organizations of its kind in the US, the Nebraska Writers Guild champions authors of all kinds, from poets to novelists to memoirists and other nonfiction authors. The NWG offers support and education and access to a community of like-minded peers for writers, whether they reside in Nebraska or not, through free classes for members, an annual conference that ranks among the top ten writer's conferences in the US, and other author events throughout the year.
Voices from the Plains, Volume 6
The Voices from the Plains anthology series is just one of the amazing opportunities the NWG offers to its members to help them express their creativity and share it with the world.
In Words in the Wind, the sixth installment of the series, NWG members have offered up more poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that will keep readers turning the pages. The variety of genres and subjects means there's something for everyone within the over 500 pages of poetry, short stories, flash fiction, novel excerpts, memoirs, essays, and other nonfiction. There are even a few recipes!
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Content
Foreword | Haase
Poetry
Not Quite Enough | Faber
Camp Counselor | Adkins
The Moon Knows | Brummels
Free Spirit | Maloney
The Morning after You Left | McNealy Sosin
Your Nomad Heart | Moran
Prairies | Nolting
My Dad Loves Kissing Other Women | Robert
Emily the Fix | Rose
Summer's Last Stand | Sousek
Flint Woman | Wren
The Death of Marat | ShennonDoah
Walking on a desert trail, we meet the two young couples | Adkins
Where Have All the Horses Gone? | Brummels
Class of '63 | Maloney
Bicycle Kids | McNealy Sosin
Truck Song at the Salvage Yard | Moran
Pond, Haiku | Sousek
Iron Gray | Nolting
Dad and the N-Word | Rose
Night Breathing | Wren
Feeding My Neighbor's Cat | Adkins
Empanadas at Luna's | Brummels
Seventy-three | Dickinson
Everyone Loves a Hardware Store | McNealy Sosin
The Gardener's Lament | Sousek
whimsical web | ShennonDoah
Hard Water | Moran
Villanelle | Torraca-Bragdon
My Loves (for Deb) | Nolting
Biology | Rose
Road Song | Wren
Madame Bovary, C'est Moi | ShennonDoah
Is This How It Starts? | McNealy Sosin
Driving through Snow | Rose
The Morning After | Sousek
The Candle | Baron
Marriage Maybe | Jackson
28 | Johnson
The old farmers know. | Olsen
Wrists | Rose
The Rain Began | Sousek
Braided Prairie Rivers | McNealy Sosin
Essays
Mittens | Baron
Changing the Narrative | Carpenter-Nolting
Feet | Dickinson
Christmas and Tinsel | Gerhardt
Moving Out Sale: A Hermit Crab Style Essay | McNealy Sosin
The Freedom to Pass Gas | Peyton
The College Experience | Ray-Smolik
Short Stories
The Late Show with 90KF Yottaflop | Jones
The Branding | Peyton
Corn Maze | Calhoun-Forecki
Broken Branches | Engstrom
Nonnie Grew Up Too Soon | Gerhardt
The Emperor's New Clothes | Robert
Half-lives of Shoes Abandoned along Interstate 80 | Hruza
The House | Olsen
What We Remember | Baron
The Railroad Watch | Peyton
Time and Time Again | Quinn
Farther Along | Ray-Smolik
Out of the Fire | Riley
Letting Go of Jason | Robert
Sound Control | Hruza
The Writer of Dreams | Seegebarth
Loose Change | Smutko
Chicken in a Storm | Riley
Exorcise This | Wielechowski
Nonfiction and Memoir
Thane Baker Helps Mother on Wash Day | Nicholson
No, I'm Not Dead | Beck
Where the Wild Things Are . . . Cooked and Eaten | Smutko
Forks in the Road | Beck
Garlic, My Sicilian Family, and Becoming Dead | Gerhardt
A Long Story about a Quick Decision | Howard
Lighter | McMillan Rives
You Never Know . . . | Nolting
The Birthday Party | Robert
When the Inconceivable Became Real | Beck
Excerpts from a Novel
Parallels | Lyons Hoard
Invasion | Colburn
Brave Charlie and the Awful Quiet | Habron-Wach
Closing Down | Adkins
A Lakota Education | Lukas
Shadow Walker | Lyons Hoard
Queen of Hearts | Riley
The Dream Delivery Service | Habron-Wach
Ben and Ada and the Order of the Raven | Riley
Shadow of the Eclipse | Seegebarth
Lindsay Doll | ShennonDoah
Flash Fiction
Open the Door | Dickinson
Returning Borrowed Time | Dickinson
The Arkansas | Smutko
About the Authors
About the Nebraska Writers Guild
Acknowledgments
Index by Author
Index by Title
