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New Issue of the Schooner! Editor’s Picks: 12 Years of Transformative Work

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2025 Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Now Open for Submissions

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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 …

Annual Prairie Schooner Award Winners Announced

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With generous supporters of the literary arts, Prairie Schooner was able to award 13 writing prizes totaling $8,250 for work published by established and emerging writers in the 2023 editions. Hamza Rehman received the $2,000 Lawrence Foundation Award for the best short story published in Prairie Schooner for “The Interpreter,” published in the Spring 2023 issue. This prize is made …

Keya Mitra headshot, photo by Daniel Stark, Stark Photography

Keya Mitra Wins Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest

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Gbenga Adesina by Ladan Osman

Raz-Shumaker in Poetry Goes to Gbenga Adesina

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Mi Jin Kim Raz-Shumaker Winner

Raz-Shumaker in Fiction Goes to Mi Jin Kim

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Adesina, Kim win 2024 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prizes

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The winner of the 2024 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry is Gbenga Adesina for “Death Does Not End At The Sea,” chosen by guest judges Joseph Millar and Hilda Raz with Kwame Dawes, Glenna Luschei Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner. Adesina will receive a $3,000 award and publication by the University of Nebraska Press. Joseph …

Safiya Sinclair To Judge Summer 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest

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“Discovery makes the recollection worthy of being recounted”: An Interview with Jerald Walker

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