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2014 Prairie Schooner Book Prize winners announced: $6,000 awarded
Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced the winners for its annual awards for books of short fiction and poetry. The winners were chosen from more than 1,100 submissions from around the world. The winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry for 2014 is Jennifer Perrine for her manuscript, No Confession, …
Briefly Noted – June 2014
Welcome to Managing Editor Ashley Strosnider, and Farewell to Marianne Kunkel
Prairie Schooner has named its new managing editor, Ashley Strosnider, whose experience includes editing positions at Drunken Boat, Pithead Chapel, and the University of South Carolina’s Yemassee journal. Ashley’s hiring came after a nationwide search led by Editor-in-Chief Kwame Dawes. She grew up in Kentucky and received an MFA in poetry from the University of …
It’s Just a Little Prick
How A Book Happens with Amina Gautier
Briefly Noted – May 2014
Announcing the First Annual Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry
They say once Africa bites you, you never recover. Poet and literary philanthropist Glenna Luschei has bestowed a generous award through the African Poetry Book Fund to fund a new prize for a collection by an African poet. Starting this year, the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry will be the first prize to recognize …
‘Poems are a Lightning Rod’
2013 Prairie Schooner Award Winners
Thanks to generous supporters of the literary arts, we’re proud and honored to award writing prizes totaling $8,500 to eighteen authors for their Prairie Schooner work published in 2013: Lee Martin of Columbus, Ohio won the $1,500 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award for his story, “Wrong Number” in the Summer issue. Martin has published three …