Prairie Schooner

Calling all nonfiction writers! Our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest is open now through August 1, with Aimee Nezhukumatathil serving as guest judge. One winner will receive $1000 and publication. Submit online at prairieschooner.submittable.com/submit

Invitation by Mi Jin Kim is now available for preorder through @UnivNebPress! Winner of the 2024 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction, Kim's collection of stories will be published this September. Preorder here: nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/97814…

Death Does Not End at the Sea by Gbenga Adesina is now available for preorder through @UnivNebPress! Winner of the 2024 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry, Adesina's debut collection will be published this September. Preorder here: nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/97814…

Less than 2 weeks left to enter our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest! One winner receives $1000 & publication. Find full guidelines and submit your work here: prairieschooner.submittable.com/submit

"Silence is either a shield, a puzzle piece, or a commentary." 💬 IALA board member Lory Bedikian talks poetry, silence, and family history in her @TheSchooner interview on Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body. 📖 Read here: bit.ly/40tsPtO

Our latest issue will be available soon!

Lory Bedikian, author of JAGADAKEER: APOLOGY TO THE BODY (@TheSchooner), joins William Archila, Leticia Hernández-Linares, and Dorianne Laux for readings tomorrow at the @Booksmith @ 7:00PM PDT! Register for the event here: bit.ly/3IhyGwa

Our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest closes in less than one month! Get your essays in by August 1 for a chance to win $1000 and publication. This year's guest judge is Aimee Nezhukumatathil. For guidelines and to submit: prairieschooner.submittable.com/submit

Books 90 & 91 of 2025: Sambal Blachan and Lim Boon Keng, by Stella Kon; The Schooner: Volume 98, Number 2, Summer 2024: Selections from the Digital Fusion Series, ed. Kwame Dawes. #yishreads #singaporehistory #worldliterature

Our latest interview on the Schooner blog features Lory Bedikian, winner of the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry for her collection Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body, published by @UnivNebPress. Read the interview here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-schoon…

"Once I started writing more flash I became very serious about sentences." Don't miss this terrific interview in @TheSchooner with Fiction Editor @hazmatcat: buff.ly/jetCczw

"Writing is a kind / of loving. Loving sticks a widget into the / machinery of doubt." Read the rest of "The End is the Beginning" by Mónica Gomery, author of MIGHT KINDRED (@TheSchooner) on @POETSorg. bit.ly/444Tcav

Only a few days left to register for my virtual ABBREVIATE launch reading on June 18 at 6pm ET! Register here: tinyurl.com/5n863svm

Recently, the Schooner's Graduate Research Assistant Manasseh Awuni spoke with Janelle Bassett about her collection Thanks for This Riot, winner of the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction. Read the interview on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-schoon…

Obituary | Glenna Luschei: news.unl.edu/article/obitua… #Nebraska #UNL #LNK @TheSchooner @unlenglish @unlcas

Congratulations to Timothy Schaffert on being named the next editor of Prairie Schooner! Check out his accomplishments and background with the journal: go.unl.edu/pt39 @unlcas @timschaffert @theschooner

We're very excited to announce that the new Glenna Luschei Endowed Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner is Timothy Schaffert, Adele Hall Professor of English and director of creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Read more about Schaffert: news.unl.edu/article/schaff…

The things we see the other do collapse words into yucca bone. The Navajo word for eye hardens into the word for war. —Jake Skeets poets.org/poem/buffalogr…

Interview: Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists. Read here: lithub.com/meet-the-2025-… #pdnews