Book Prize
Book Prize winners ruling their worlds with groundbreaking works
When we started the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize two decades ago, we aimed to, among other things, celebrate literary excellence and provide a launch pad for writers, especially emerging ones facing the grueling world of publishing. Each year, when we celebrate new winners, we look back with enormous pride at how previous winners continue …
2025 Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Now Open for Submissions
Submissions for the 2025 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize for fiction and poetry are now open! The deadline for the contest is March 15, 2025, and writers can submit their entries through Submittable. The Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Series annually names two prize-winning manuscripts, one in poetry and one in short fiction, selected by the editor-in-chief of the Schooner with the help of …
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