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Hope Wabuke on the work of the poet
“I began each day by wrestling a tiger”: an Interview with Steven Church
“I tried to be ruthless”: poet Kirun Kapur on editing a first manuscript
‘GREAT JUST GREAT ALL IS GREAT BEAUTY IS EVERYWHERE’: An interview with Ruth Madievsky
Hera Naguib on “the violent essence of any creative activity”
‘You just need one person to fall in love deeply’: An interview with fiction writer Nina McConigley
2016 Sillerman winner Safia Elhillo on honoring “a crooked sort of syntax”
E.M. Tran Wins 2016 Summer Nonfiction Contest
Prairie Schooner is pleased to name E. M. Tran the winner of the 2016 Summer Nonfiction Contest, judged by Kiese Laymon, for her essay “Miss Saigon.” Tran will receive a prize of $250, and her essay will appear in the Spring 2017 edition of Prairie Schooner. E. M. Tran is a Vietnamese American …
Fall 2016 Issue Now Available
The Fall 2016 issue of Prairie Schooner is now available and making its way into subscribers’ mailboxes. This new edition features essays, prose, and poetry from Mimi Schwartz, John Kinsella, and Tony Hoagland, among others. The Fall issue opens with an essay titled “13 Superstitions” by Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade. The …