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“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 …
New Issue of the Schooner! Editor’s Picks: 12 Years of Transformative Work
2025 Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Now Open for Submissions
Submissions for the 2025 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize for fiction and poetry are now open! The deadline for the contest is March 15, 2025, and writers can submit their entries through Submittable. The Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Series annually names two prize-winning manuscripts, one in poetry and one in short fiction, selected by the editor-in-chief of the Schooner with the help of …