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On The Winner of the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
“We’re all constantly messing up and all constantly changing”: an interview with Andrea Gibson
“That writing should challenge readers with the most difficult truths”: An Interview with Heather Johnson
“Amid all the dreams and anxieties”: A Debut Novelist Roundtable, Pt. 2
“The truth, but not the whole truth”: A Debut Novelist Roundtable, Pt. 1
Heather Johnson Wins 2017 Summer Nonfiction Contest
(photo by Catherine Anne Hubka) Prairie Schooner is pleased to name Heather Johnson the winner of the 2017 Summer Nonfiction Contest, judged by Esmé Weijun Wang, for her essay “Nowhere Place.” Johnson will receive a prize of $250, and her essay will appear in the Spring 2018 edition of Prairie Schooner. Heather Johnson …
Fall 2017 Issue Now Available
The Fall 2017 issue of the Prairie Schooner is out now and making its way to bookstores and subscribers’ mailboxes everywhere. This new issue features essays, poetry, and prose by Kirstin Allio, José Angel Araguz, and Rachel Toliver among many others. The beautiful cover of the Fall 2017 issue, titled “If You Want Blood” …
2016 Book Prize Winners’ Books Now Available from University of Nebraska Press
Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is pleased to announce that our 2016 Book Prize Winners’ books are now available from the University of Nebraska Press and wherever books are sold. Black Jesus and Other Superheroes by Venita Blackburn won the 2016 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, receiving $3000 and publication by the …
2017 Book Prize Winners Announced
Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced the winners of its annual book awards for poetry and short fiction. The winners were chosen from more than 1,200 submissions from around the world. The Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction for 2017 goes to Sara Batkie for her manuscript Better Times, chosen by guest-judges …