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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 If you have work that you’d like considered for the portfolio, send up to five pages of unpublished poems and/or prose poetry, along with …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. …
Spring Issue Cake
Once again, we’re celebrating the release of our Spring issue with a delicious cake by the incomparable Lorna Dawes! The issue’s cover, Fidencio Martinez’s Countrymen, was created using acrylic, paper, and maps. Martinez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, but raised in North Carolina, and his work manipulates maps and newspaper cuttings to refer to the …
Dealing with Literary Rejection: Tips from Sarah Fawn Montgomery
2014 Book Prize Celebration
For the third year, Prairie Schooner will be hosting its annual Book Prize Celebration, mixing readings with artists’ interpretations of its prize-winning books, featuring the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize winners Orlando Ricardo Menes for his poetry collection Fetish and Xhenet Aliu for her short story collection Domesticated Wild Things, along with special music composition …
Billy Ireland and Cartoons That Affect Change
Briefly Noted – March 2014
Six Ways to Commemorate World Poetry Day
Prairie Schooner is taking time to honor the U.N.’s World Poetry Day on March 21, celebrating poetry’s power to communicate rich ideas and grant us insight to places deep within ourselves. The day was proclaimed in 1999 in Paris by the United Nations to both reaffirm poetry’s place in society and recognize its ability to …