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Available for Preorder: 2024 Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Winners
“Essays help me draw a deeper breath”: An Interview with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
“What the music of the poem needs”: An Interview with Lory Bedikian
“I like to read sentences that twirl”: An Interview with Janelle Bassett
Kwame Dawes: Foreword to the New Fusion Issue
In Memoriam: Glenna Luschei, 1934-2025
“I am a different kind of activist”—Camille Dungy
Book Prize winners ruling their worlds with groundbreaking works
When we started the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize two decades ago, we aimed to, among other things, celebrate literary excellence and provide a launch pad for writers, especially emerging ones facing the grueling world of publishing. Each year, when we celebrate new winners, we look back with enormous pride at how previous winners continue …
