Calling all nonfiction writers! Our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest is open now through August 1, with Aimee Nezhukumatathil serving as guest judge. One winner will receive $1000 and publication. Submit online at

Invitation by Mi Jin Kim is now available for preorder through @UnivNebPress! Winner of the 2024 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction, Kim's collection of stories will be published this September. Preorder here:

Death Does Not End at the Sea by Gbenga Adesina is now available for preorder through @UnivNebPress! Winner of the 2024 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry, Adesina's debut collection will be published this September. Preorder here:

Less than 2 weeks left to enter our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest! One winner receives $1000 & publication. Find full guidelines and submit your work here:

RT @armliterary: "Silence is either a shield, a puzzle piece, or a commentary." 💬. IALA board member Lory Bedikian talks poetry, silence, a….

Our latest issue will be available soon!.

RT @UnivNebPress: Lory Bedikian, author of JAGADAKEER: APOLOGY TO THE BODY (@TheSchooner), joins William Archila, Leticia Hernández-Linares….

Our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest closes in less than one month! Get your essays in by August 1 for a chance to win $1000 and publication. This year's guest judge is Aimee Nezhukumatathil. For guidelines and to submit:

Our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest is open for submissions until August 1! The winner will receive $1,000 and publication in our Spring 2026 issue.

With just one month left to submit to our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest, we're excited to share an interview with this year's judge, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, who recently spoke with two of our nonfiction editors. Read the interview on our blog:

RT @yishkabob: Books 90 & 91 of 2025: Sambal Blachan and Lim Boon Keng, by Stella Kon; The Schooner: Volume 98, Number 2, Summer 2024: Sele….

Our latest interview on the Schooner blog features Lory Bedikian, winner of the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry for her collection Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body, published by @UnivNebPress. Read the interview here:

RT @splitlipthemag: "Once I started writing more flash I became very serious about sentences.". Don't miss this terrific interview in @TheS….

RT @UnivNebPress: "Writing is a kind / of loving. Loving sticks a widget into the / machinery of doubt.". Read the rest of "The End is the….

RT @SF_Montgomery: Only a few days left to register for my virtual ABBREVIATE launch reading on June 18 at 6pm ET!.Register here: https://t….

Recently, the Schooner's Graduate Research Assistant Manasseh Awuni spoke with Janelle Bassett about her collection Thanks for This Riot, winner of the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction. Read the interview on our blog:

RT @NebToday: Obituary | Glenna Luschei: #Nebraska #UNL #LNK @TheSchooner @unlenglish @unlcas .

RT @unlenglish: Congratulations to Timothy Schaffert on being named the next editor of Prairie Schooner!. Check out his accomplishments and….

We're very excited to announce that the new Glenna Luschei Endowed Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner is Timothy Schaffert, Adele Hall Professor of English and director of creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Read more about Schaffert:

RT @POETSorg: The things we see the other do. collapse words into yucca bone. The Navajo word for eye. hardens into the word for war. —Ja….

RT @Poetry_Daily: Interview: Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists. Read here: . #pdnews.