2014 Kansas Notable Book Award. Echoes from the Prairie is a modern memoir anthology by Kansas writers in the Great Plains Writers Group. This unique volume consists of short creative non-fiction accounts of a wide variety of closely held personal experiences. Some of the writers revisit troubling or tragic events that altered the course of their lives. Others recover seemingly unremarkable that artfully proclaim the miracle of the everyday life. Every piece of writing offers a fresh interpretation of the human dilemma. All of the stories in this impressive book-happy or sad-will impress the reader with their honesty, their passion, and their courage.