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Prairie Schooner Book Prize

American literary award presented yearly since 2003, one award for poetry and one award for fiction. It is run by the literary magazine Prairie Schooner and University of Nebraska Press.

2003-2009

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2003	*Last Call* by K. L. Cook	2007	*Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories* by Katherine Vaz
2004	*Carrying the Torch* by Brock Clarke	2008	*Call Me Ahab* by Anne Finger
2005	*Nocturnal America* by John Keeble	2009	*Bliss, and Other Short Stories* by Ted Gilley
2006	*The Alice Stories* by Jesse Lee Kercheval

Last Call by K. L. Cook
Call Number: FIC COOK KL LA (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780803215405
Publication Date: 2004-10-01
Collection of linked stories that spans three generations in the life of one West Texas family. Events both tender and tragic lead to a strange and lovely vision of a world stitched together in tenuous ways as the characters struggle to make sense of their lives amid the shifting boundaries of marriage, family, class, and culture.

2010-2019

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2010-2019

2010	*Destroy All Monsters* by Greg Hrbek	2015	*One-Hundred Knuckled Fist* by Dustin M. Hoffman
2011	*Leaf House* by Karen Brown	2016	*Black Jesus and Other Superheroes* by Venita Blackburn
2012	*Domesticated Wild Things* by Xhenet Aliu	2017	*Better Times* by Sara Batkie
2013	*Now We Will Be Happy* by Amina Gautier	2018	*Extinction Events : Stories* by Liz Breazeale
2014	*When Are You Coming Home?* by Bryn Chancellor	2019	*If the Body Allows It* by Megan Cummins

2020-2029

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2020	*What Isn't Remembered* by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry	2025
2021		2026
2022		2027
2023		2028
2024		2029