Prairie Schooner
{{short description|US literary magazine}}
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| editor = Kwame Dawes
| discipline = Literature
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| language = English
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| abbreviation = Prairie Schoon.
| publisher = University of Nebraska Press for
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| country = United States
| frequency = Quarterly
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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 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
Prairie Schooner's current editor (2011–present) is Jamaican/Ghanaian poet and author Kwame Dawes.{{cite web |title=Prairie Schooner 75th Anniversary Celebration and Beyond |url=https://libarchives.unl.edu/project/prairie-schooner-75th-anniversary-celebration/ |website=University of Nebraska-Lincoln |access-date=17 February 2025}}{{cite web |title=Acclaimed author, poet takes the helm of Prairie Schooner |url=https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/todayatunl/604/3614 |website=University of Nebraska-Lincoln |access-date=17 February 2025 |date=21 September 2011}}
=Previous editors=
- 1926–1956 Lowry Wimberly
- 1956–1963 Karl Shapiro
- 1963–1980 Bernice Slote
- 1980–1987 Hugh Luke
- 1987–2011 Hilda Raz
Notable contributors
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- 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
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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.{{cite web |title=About Prairie Schooner |url=https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/about-prairie-schooner/ |website=Prairie Schooner |access-date=16 February 2025}} 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.{{cite web |title=History of the Journal |url=https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/about-prairie-schooner/history-journal/ |website=Prairie Schooner |access-date=17 February 2025}}{{cite web |title=Prairie Schooner awards literary prizes for work published in 2023 |url=https://news.unl.edu/article/prairie-schooner-awards-literary-prizes-for-work-published-in-2023 |website=University of Nebraska-Lincoln |access-date=16 February 2025}} 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.{{cite web |title=Glenna Luschei recognizes African poetry with new prize |url=https://nufoundation.org/glenna-luschei-recognizes-african-poetry-with-new-prize/ |website=University of Nebraska Foundation |date=29 May 2014}}
{{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.{{cite web |title=Book Prize Guidelines |url=https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize-guidelines/ |access-date=9 May 2024 |work=Prairie Schooner}} 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.[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.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]. Manuscripts are accepted from all living writers, including non-US citizens, writing in English.
= Past Winners =
References
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Further reading
- Stewart, Paul R., The Prairie Schooner Story: A Little Magazine's First 25 Years (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1955). {{OCLC|2083315}} {{LCCN|55008931}}
External links
- [http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/ The Prairie Schooner]
- [https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize/ Prairie Schooner Book Prize], official website.
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Category:Magazines established in 1926
Category:Magazines published in Nebraska
Category:Mass media in Lincoln, Nebraska
Category:Poetry magazines published in the United States