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Prairie Schooner

US literary magazine

US literary magazine

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titlePrairie Schooner
cover[[File:Prairie Schooner (magazine) Fall 2010 cover.jpg200pxFall 2010 cover]]
captionFall 2010 issue cover
editorTimothy Schaffert
disciplineLiterature
languageEnglish
abbreviationPrairie Schoon.
publisherUniversity of Nebraska Press for
the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
countryUnited States
frequencyQuarterly
history1926–present
websitehttp://prairieschooner.unl.edu
link1http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Prairie-Schooner,673236.aspx
link1-name*Prairie Schooner* at the University of Nebraska Press
JSTOR00326682
ISSN0032-6682
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Prairie Schooner is a literary magazine published quarterly at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with the cooperation of UNL's English Department and the University of Nebraska Press. It is based in Lincoln, Nebraska and was first published in 1926. It was founded by Lowry Wimberly and a small group of his students, who together formed the Wordsmith Chapter of Sigma Upsilon (a national honorary literary society).

Although many assume it is a regional magazine, it is nationally and internationally distributed and publishes writers from all over the United States and the world.

Prairie Schooner has garnered selections and honorable mentions in the Pushcart Prize anthologies and various of the Best American series, including Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Mystery Stories, and Best American Nonrequired Reading.

Editors

''Prairie Schooner'''s current editor (from 2025) is Timothy Schaffert, novelist and Adele Hall Professor of English and director of creative writing at the university.

Previous editors

  • 2011-2025 Kwame Dawes
  • 1987–2011 Hilda Raz
  • 1980–1987 Hugh Luke
  • 1963–1980 Bernice Slote
  • 1956–1963 Karl Shapiro
  • 1926–1956 Lowry Wimberly

Notable contributors

  • Jacob M. Appel
  • Beth Bachmann
  • Joseph Payne Brennan
  • Charles Bukowski
  • Robert Olen Butler
  • Truman Capote
  • Raymond Carver
  • Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • Rita Dove
  • Richard Foerster
  • Marilyn Hacker
  • Lillian Halegua
  • Albert Halper
  • Michael Derrick Hudson
  • Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Jesse Lee Kercheval
  • Russell Kirk
  • Ted Kooser
  • Diane Lockward
  • Lee Martin
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Sharon Olds
  • Alicia Ostriker
  • Lori Ostlund
  • Octavio Paz
  • Robert Peters
  • Carol Potter
  • Alberto Rios
  • Susanna Roxman
  • Mari Sandoz
  • Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
  • Tim Schaffert
  • Enid Shomer
  • R. T. Smith
  • Jim Thompson
  • Chris Ware
  • Eudora Welty
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Ladette Randolph

Glenna Luschei Fund and awards

In 2001, the magazine and its editorship were endowed in perpetuity by poet and literary philanthropist Glenna Luschei under the Glenna Luschei Fund for Excellence at the University of Nebraska Foundation. In addition to funding the magazine and its special projects, the endowment funds one $1,500 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award and ten $250 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Awards every year. The Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry is run by the African Poetry Book Fund in partnership with Prairie Schooner and is also named for and funded by Glenna Luschei.

{{anchor|Prairie Schooner Book Prize}} Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize

The Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize is an American literary award presented yearly since 2003, one award for poetry and one award for fiction. It is run by the literary magazine Prairie Schooner and University of Nebraska Press. Winners receive $3,000 and publication through the University of Nebraska Press. Manuscripts are accepted from all living writers, including non-US citizens, writing in English.

Past winners

YearFictionPoetry
2003K. L. Cook, *Last Call*Cortney Davis, *Leopold's Maneuvers*
2004Brock Clarke, *Carrying the Torch*Rynn Williams, *Adonis Garage*
2005John Keeble, *Nocturnal America*Kathleen Flenniken, *Famous*
2006Jesse Lee Kercheval, *The Alice Stories*Paul Guest, *Notes for My Body Double*
2007Katherine Vaz, *Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories*Mari L'Esperance, *The Darkened Temple*
2008Anne Finger, *Call Me Ahab*Kara Candito, *Taste of Cherry*
2009Ted Gilley, *Bliss, and Other Short Stories*Shane Book, *Ceiling of Sticks*
2010Greg Hrbek, *Destroy All Monsters*James Crews, *The Book of What Stays*
2011Karen Brown, *Little Sinners* (submitted as "Leaf House")Susan Blackwell Ramsey, *A Mind Like This*
2012Xhenet Aliu, *Domesticated Wild Things*Orlando Ricardo Menes, *Fetish*
2013Amina Gautier, *Now We Will Be Happy*R. A. Villanueva, *Reliquaria*
2014Bryn Chancellor, *When Are You Coming Home?*Jennifer Perrine, *No Confession, No Mass*
2015Dustin M. Hoffman, *One-Hundred Knuckled Fist*Safiya Sinclair, *Cannibal*
2016Venita Blackburn, *Black Jesus and Other Superheroes*Susan Gubernat, *The Zoo at Night*
2017Sara Batkie, *Better Times*Luisa Muradyan, *American Radiance*
2018Liz Breazeale, *Extinction Events: Stories*Aria Aber, *Hard Damage*
2019Megan Cummins, *If the Body Allows It*Jihyun Yun, *Some Are Always Hungry*
2020Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, *What Isn't Remembered*Susan Nguyen, *Dear Diaspora*
2021Karin Lin-Greenberg, *Vanished*Mónica Gomery, *Might Kindred*
2022Gen Del Raye, *Boundless Deep and Other Stores*Jared Harél, *Let Our Bodies Change the Subject*
2023date=2023-09-06title=Bedikian, Bassett win 2023 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prizesurl=https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/bedikian-bassett-win-2023-raz-shumaker-prairie-schooner-book-prizes/access-date=2024-05-09website=news.unl.edulanguage=en}}Lory Bedikian, *Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body*

References

References

  1. (5 June 2025). "Schaffert named editor of Prairie Schooner".
  2. "Prairie Schooner 75th Anniversary Celebration and Beyond".
  3. (21 September 2011). "Acclaimed author, poet takes the helm of Prairie Schooner".
  4. "About Prairie Schooner".
  5. "History of the Journal".
  6. "Prairie Schooner awards literary prizes for work published in 2023".
  7. (29 May 2014). "Glenna Luschei recognizes African poetry with new prize".
  8. "Book Prize Guidelines". Prairie Schooner.
  9. [http://westlit.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/prairie-schooner-book-prize/ Prairie Schooner Book Prize], The Official Blog of the Western Literature Association, February 11, 2010.
  10. Robert Lee Brewer (2011). ''2012 Writer's Market Deluxe Edition'', Writer's Digest Books, September 2, 2011. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gDUSHgFOnrkC&pg=PA984 Pg.984].
  11. "Book Prize Winners". Prairie Schooner.
  12. "Little Sinners".
  13. Debra Worley. (July 11, 2012). "UNCW graduate wins prestigious prize for fiction writing". WECT.
  14. Christian Myers. (August 28, 2012). "Professor's poem collection wins book prize". The Observer.
  15. (2023-09-06). "Bedikian, Bassett win 2023 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prizes".
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