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Prairie Schooner, a literary journal based at the University of Nebraska, is in its 95th year of publishing quality poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews.

13/02/2025

Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade’s collaborative essay, “13 Superstitions,” was the winner of a 2016 Glenna Luschei Award. The essay now appears in our newest issue, featuring a portfolio of Editor’s Picks selected by Kwame Dawes.

Get the current issue here: https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/spring-2024/

12/02/2025

Congratulations to Mónica Gomery on winning the 2024 Helena Whitehill Book Award! Her manuscript, Conjugations of Mothering, was selected by judge and will be published by .

Ilya Kaminsky said of her winning manuscript: “One of the ancient functions of poetry is to heal and repair the world, despite all the devastation—and this need to repair of our moment is everywhere in these poems’ imagery and tone.”

Gomery won the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry in 2021 for her manuscript, Might Kindred, which was published through our Book Prize Series with .

11/02/2025

“Ta’bien Negra” by Nathalie Handal was the winner of our 2014 Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing. You can read this and other award-winning work in our latest issue, featuring a portfolio of Editor’s Picks curated by Kwame Dawes.

To read more about the issue, visit our blog: https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-schooner/new-issue-of-the-schooner-editors-picks-12-years-of-transformative-work/

For a full contributors list and to order the issue, visit https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/spring-2024/

10/02/2025

Janelle Bassett was the winner of the 2023 Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction for her manuscript Thanks for This Riot, which was published by last year.

The Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry and Fiction is open until March 15, 2025. To read more on previous winners of the book prize or see guidelines for this year’s contest, visit https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize/

07/02/2025

“From this point on, the days melt together.”

You can read Jordan Walkers “Island of Misfits,” winner of our 2023 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest, in the latest issue: https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/spring-2024/

06/02/2025

Lory Bedikian was the winner of the 2023 Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry for her manuscript Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body. Bedikian is also the author of the collection The Book of Lamenting, which won the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry.

The Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry and Fiction is open until March 15, 2025. To read more on previous winners of the book prize or see guidelines for this year’s contest, visit https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize/

05/02/2025

“Who was it that said you only write to the land
because the land cannot speak back?”

—from “What It Is to be Holy” by Omar Sakr, featured in our latest issue

04/02/2025

Here are just a few of the exciting new and upcoming books that are being published by our contributors from January-March.

If we’ve published your work and you have publishing news, we’d love to hear from you! Send us an email at [email protected].

03/02/2025

“Star of Bethlehem” by , which won the 2022 Lawrence Foundation Award, is one of the pieces featured in our latest issue’s portfolio of Editor’s Picks from the last 12 years. To read Mustafah’s story and other award-winning work, see the link in our bio to order the new issue.

30/01/2025

Our latest issue features a portfolio of work from .dawes’ twelve years of leadership as Editor in Chief of the Schooner. “This issue is an indulgence,” he writes.

To read more about the issue and order a copy, visit the Schooner blog and our online store via the link in our bio.

29/01/2025

Congratulations to our very own Editor in Chief, .dawes, on his investiture as Poet Laureate of Jamaica last week! Dawes is the fourth Poet Laureate of Jamaica, and will hold his appointment from 2025-2028.

23/01/2025

Our latest issue has arrived! Issue 98.1 features a portfolio of editor’s picks selected by Kwame Dawes, celebrating 12 years of work published under his leadership as Editor in Chief of the Schooner.

To read more about the issue, including an excerpt from Dawes’ foreword, visit the Schooner blog on our website via the link in our bio.

16/01/2025

The 2025 Raz-Shumaker Book Prize is now open for submissions! Send us your manuscripts of poetry or short fiction by March 15. Winners will receive $3000 and publication through

For more details and to enter the prize, see the link in our bio.

13/01/2025

Get your manuscripts ready! The 2025 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction and Poetry will open January 15. For more info and guidelines, visit the link in our bio.

07/01/2025

Another peek into the archives: today we’re looking at issues of the Schooner that featured Mary Oliver. These issues date from 1964 to 1982, with Bernice Slote and, later, Hugh Luke serving as Editor in Chief. Oliver published her first poem with us, “The Diviners,” in 1964; this was just one year after her first collection, No Voyage, debuted. Her contributor’s note in the 1982 issue mentions that she is working on a fifth collection of poetry—referring to American Primitive, which would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984.

18/12/2024

We’re thrilled to announce our annual award winners! This year, with generous support, we were able to award 13 writing prizes totaling $8,250 for work published by established and emerging writers in the previous editions. To read more on the prizes and awardees, visit the Schooner Blog via the link in our bio.

16/12/2024

Another look in the archives: today we’re looking at our sold-out Sports themed Winter 2015 issue, guest edited by Natalie Diaz. The issue featured work by Patricia Smith, Cornelius Eady, francine j. harris, Paul Tran, Joseph Millar, Fatimah Asghar, Ada Limón, Kaveh Akbar, Terrance Hayes, and many others. Pictured here is Danez Smith’s poem “last summer of innocence.”

You can read the contents of this and other back issues online through Project MUSE; check with your local library or institution for access.

13/12/2024

From the archive: the Spring 1971 issue of the Schooner, which featured a portfolio of children’s poetry edited by Hilda Gregory.

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