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*Prairie Schooner*
Discipline	Literature
Language	English
Edited by	Kwame Dawes
Publication details
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press for; the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Prairie Schoon.
Indexing;
ISSN	0032-6682;
JSTOR	00326682
Links
	Journal homepage; Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska Press;

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 reprints, 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 and notable contributors

Prairie Schooner's current editor (2011–present) is Jamaican/Ghanaian poet and author Kwame Dawes. From 1963 to 1980 Bernice Slote served as the editor.

Notable contributors

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.^[1] 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.^[2]^[3] Manuscripts are accepted from all living writers, including non-US citizens, writing in English.^[2]

Past Winners^[4]

Year	Fiction	Poetry
2003	K. L. Cook, Last Call	Cortney Davis, Leopold's Maneuvers
2004	Brock Clarke, Carrying the Torch	Rynn Williams, Adonis Garage
2005	John Keeble, Nocturnal America	Kathleen Flenniken, Famous
2006	Jesse Lee Kercheval, The Alice Stories	Paul Guest, Notes for My Body Double
2007	Katherine Vaz, Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories	Mari L'Esperance, The Darkened Temple
2008	Anne Finger, Call Me Ahab	Kara Candito, Taste of Cherry
2009	Ted Gilley, Bliss, and Other Short Stories	Shane Book, Ceiling of Sticks
2010	Greg Hrbek, Destroy All Monsters	James Crews, The Book of What Stays
2011	Karen Brown, Little Sinners (submitted as "Leaf House")^[5]	Susan Blackwell Ramsey, A Mind Like This
2012	Xhenet Aliu, Domesticated Wild Things^[6]	Orlando Ricardo Menes, Fetish^[7]
2013	Amina Gautier, Now We Will Be Happy	R. A. Villanueva, Reliquaria
2014	Bryn Chancellor, When Are You Coming Home?	Jennifer Perrine, No Confession, No Mass
2015	Dustin M. Hoffman, One-Hundred Knuckled Fist	Safiya Sinclair, Cannibal
2016	Venita Blackburn, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes	Susan Gubernat, The Zoo at Night
2017	Sara Batkie, Better Times	Luisa Muradyan, American Radiance
2018	Liz Breazeale, Extinction Events: Stories	Aria Aber, Hard Damage
2019	Megan Cummins, If the Body Allows It	Jihyun Yun, Some Are Always Hungry
2020	Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, What Isn’t Remembered	Susan Nguyen, Dear Diaspora
2021	Karin Lin-Greenberg, Vanished	Mónica Gomery, Might Kindred
2022	Gen Del Raye, Boundless Deep and Other Stores	Jared Harél, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
2023	Janelle Bassett, Thanks for This Riot^[8]	Lory Bedikian, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body^[8]

References

^ "Book Prize Guidelines". Prairie Schooner. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b Prairie Schooner Book Prize, The Official Blog of the Western Literature Association, February 11, 2010.
^ Robert Lee Brewer (2011). 2012 Writer's Market Deluxe Edition, Writer's Digest Books, September 2, 2011. Pg.984.
^ "Book Prize Winners". Prairie Schooner. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
^ "Little Sinners". Prairie Schooner. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
^ Debra Worley (July 11, 2012). "UNCW graduate wins prestigious prize for fiction writing". WECT. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
^ Christian Myers (August 28, 2012). "Professor's poem collection wins book prize". The Observer. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Bedikian, Bassett win 2023 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prizes". news.unl.edu. 2023-09-06. Retrieved 2024-05-09.