Blog
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 …
Women and the Global Imagination Poetry Portfolio – Submissions Open
Prairie Schooner is excited to announce that our Winter 2014 issue will feature a poetry portfolio centered on the theme of Women and the Global Imagination, guest-edited by poet Alicia Ostriker. If you have work that you’d like considered for the portfolio, send up to five pages of unpublished poems and/or prose poetry, along with …
A Celebration and A Goodbye
Last Wednesday, Prairie Schooner staff, submitters, and subscribers gathered at the UNL International Center for Quilt Studies, for what was in some ways a celebration and in others a goodbye. The occasion: the publication of Fetish by Orlando Ricardo Menes and Domesticated Wild Things by Xhenet Aliu, winners of the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. …