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Prairie Schooner Prairie Schooner, a literary journal based at the University of Nebraska, is in its 95th year of publishing quality poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews.

In compiling our Writers on Writing issue (Summer 2025), we discovered a number of essays, poems, and stories that explo...
13/01/2026

In compiling our Writers on Writing issue (Summer 2025), we discovered a number of essays, poems, and stories that explored topics central to the literary life. We are including on the blog some additional pieces from the Prairie Schooner archive.

Today’s bonus piece is Linda Pastan’s poem “To a Poet, Recently Silent” from our Fall 2001 issue. Read the full poem on our blog: https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-schooner/writers-on-writing-bonus-feature-linda-pastan/

We’re so excited to learn that Raz/Shumaker Book Prize winner Lory Bedikian has won the 2024 Anahid Literary Prize, awar...
13/01/2026

We’re so excited to learn that Raz/Shumaker Book Prize winner Lory Bedikian has won the 2024 Anahid Literary Prize, awarded by the Columbia University Armenian Center. The award is given to a writer of Armenian descent writing in English in early or mid-career in recognition of their achievement.

Bedikian won the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry for her collection Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body, published by . Her first book, The Book of Lamenting, won the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry.

Get your manuscripts ready! The 2026 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction and Poetry opens January 15. Winners receive $30...
12/01/2026

Get your manuscripts ready! The 2026 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction and Poetry opens January 15. Winners receive $3000 and publication through the University of Nebraska Press.

For full guidelines, visit https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize-guidelines/

Uche Okonkwo’s essay “Crafting Narrative Tension” appears in a Craft & Instruction portfolio in our recent Writers on Wr...
06/01/2026

Uche Okonkwo’s essay “Crafting Narrative Tension” appears in a Craft & Instruction portfolio in our recent Writers on Writing issue.

See the table of contents, read excerpts, and order a copy on our website: https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/summer-2025/

We’re thrilled to hear that four essays first published in Prairie Schooner in 2024 have been listed among the “Notable ...
05/01/2026

We’re thrilled to hear that four essays first published in Prairie Schooner in 2024 have been listed among the “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024” in the Best American Essays 2025 edition. Congratulations to our authors!

Dear friends, readers, and contributors: we thank you for your support this year, and we wish you a warm and restful hol...
19/12/2025

Dear friends, readers, and contributors: we thank you for your support this year, and we wish you a warm and restful holiday season. We’re excited to share our plans for 2026 and beyond in the new year as we approach the journal’s 100-year anniversary.

With gratitude,
The Prairie Schooner Team

In compiling our Writers on Writing issue (Summer 2025), we discovered a number of essays, poems, and stories that explo...
18/12/2025

In compiling our Writers on Writing issue (Summer 2025), we discovered a number of essays, poems, and stories that explored topics central to the literary life. We are including on the blog some additional pieces from the Prairie Schooner archive.

Today’s bonus piece is Borden Deal’s essay “The Future of Fiction” from our Fall 1954 issue. Read the full essay on the blog: https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-schooner/writers-on-writing-bonus-feature-borden-deal/

Learn more about the Writers on Writing Summer 2025 issue: https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/summer-2025/

Linda Pastan’s essay “Washing My Hands of the Ink,” originally published in our Winter 1991 issue, is included in our la...
11/12/2025

Linda Pastan’s essay “Washing My Hands of the Ink,” originally published in our Winter 1991 issue, is included in our latest issue featuring archival work on the theme Writers on Writing.

See the table of contents, read excerpts from the issue, and order a copy: https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/summer-2025/

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