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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 …
2020 Prairie Schooner Award Winners Announced!
Thanks to generous supporters of the literary arts, Prairie Schooner was able to award eighteen writing prizes totaling $9,500 for work published by established and emerging writers in 2019. Maurine Ogbaa of Houston, TX, received the $1,500 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award for her story “The Men in Her Life,” published in the Winter 2019 …
“Monsters are replaced by monitors”: an interview with Jaylan Salah
Black Lives Matter
“So You Wanna Win A Book Prize” w/ Gbenga Adeoba
Walk It Like You Talk It: #fivewordfridays
by Ashley Strosnider Tackled the exercise below? Come up with something brilliant or hilarious? Tweet us a favorite line or phrase @theSchooner! My mom describes horrible things as “dreadful.” One of my friends calls excellent things “dynamite.” Neither of these feels quite right in my mouth, but I’m still charmed when they say them. Many of …
Sorry to Miss Y’all at #AWP20
Prairie Schooner and the APBF will have a significantly reduced presence at this year’s AWP Conference in San Antonio, as most of our staff will not be traveling. That said, our Thursday night offsite party is still ON! All who are attending the conference or are in the San Antonio area are invited to attend …
“So You Wanna Win A Book Prize” w/ Tjawangwa Dema
Cast a New Light (or, why Kwame banned “gloaming”: #fivewordfridays
by Ashley Strosnider Tackled the excercise below? Come up with something brilliant or hilarious? Tweet us a favorite line or phrase @theSchooner! Last week, one of our new interns was reading submissions, and he stopped and said, “I just read two poetry submissions in a row with the phrase ‘a jealous moon.’ What are …