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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 22, 2026
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Fall 2026 issue now available - Prairie Schooner (opens the original)
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The weather is getting cooler in Lincoln, and with the changing season comes our latest issue! Fall 2026 features a portfolio of Latinx Flash Memoir edited by Joy Castro, Prairie Schooner‘s Nonfiction Editor. Contributors to the portfolio include Sandra Cisneros, Ana Menéndez, Rigoberto González, Daisy Hernández, Luis J. Rodríguez, Ángel García, and many more. In her introduction to the portfolio, Castro writes: During a time of intensifying carceral peril and state violence in the United States
Gbenga Adesina's Death Does Not End at the Sea Reviewed by Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri - Prairie Schooner (opens the original)
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Gbenga Adesina. Death Does Not End at the Sea. University of Nebraska Press. In recent African and diasporic poetry, the sea has become a charged site of memory, carrying the weight of migration, displacement, loss, and historical rupture. Gbenga Adesina’s debut collection, Death Does Not End at the Sea, enters this field with a work that is at once elegy and migratory narrative. The collection traces journeys across continents and generations while insisting that these movements are never clean
Han VanderHart and Mialise Carney win 2026 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prizes - Prairie Schooner (opens the original)
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We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2026 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize! In poetry, Han VanderHart has been named the winner for their manuscript “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely.” In fiction, Mialise Carney has been named the winner for her manuscript “What Girls Do Online & other stories.” Read more about the winners and finalists below. The winner of the 2026 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry is Han VanderHart for “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely,” chosen by guest judg
Opera as the Original Drag Show: Sophie Strohmeier on her first novella, All Girls Be Mine Alone - Prairie Schooner (opens the original)
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On a particularly foggy evening downtown, I meet Sophie Strohmeier on a sidewalk, cars swimming around us, some leaving Manhattan and others returning to it. She’s generous enough to meet me after her day job and take me to New York’s oldest bar—an early 19th century haunt, boasting its history on myriad placards. We cozy up in the back, walls cluttered with art, tables covered in paper, with crayons available for scribbling. This feels like just the place where the characters of Strohmeier’s no
Donika Kelly's The Natural Order of Things Reviewed by Livia Meneghin - Prairie Schooner (opens the original)
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Donika Kelly. The Natural Order of Things. Graywolf Press.Reviewed by Livia Meneghin Donika Kelly’s The Natural Order of Things (Graywolf Press, 2025) simultaneously reaches back into lineage and looks ahead to possibility, love, and joy. With unwavering honesty, Kelly reflects inward while acknowledging connections across time and space. How do we know who we are? How do we reconnect with ourselves after trauma? Throughout this stunning ode, Kelly finds stability, hope, and the tools to thrive
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