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Raz-Shumaker in Fiction Goes to Mi Jin Kim
Adesina, Kim win 2024 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prizes
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
“Discovery makes the recollection worthy of being recounted”: An Interview with Jerald Walker
Celebrating Women In Translation!
“Lived in the Half-Light, the Twilight”: An Interview with Ted Kooser
When each fall comes, I fall in lines
2020 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Contest Winners Announced
Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced the winners of its annual Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Prize for poetry and short fiction collections. The winners were chosen from more than 1,200 submissions from around the world. The Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction for 2020 goes to Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry for her manuscript What Isn’t Remembered, chosen by guest-judges …
Summer 2020 Issue Now Available
Summer in Nebraska is a season of storms—of heat and thunder and lightning. Our Summer 2020 issue opens with a rumble in a set of four new poems from Martín Espada. In “Boxer Wears America First Shorts in Bout with Mexican, Finishes Second,” hooks answer jabs, and Lightning Rod—in his red, white, and blue “border …