Prairie Schooner

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
Indexing
ISSN	0032-6682
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. 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.

Editors

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).

Prairie Schooner's current editor (2011 - present) is Jamaican poet and author Kwame Dawes. Recent special issues have focused on ekphrastic poetry and poetry and prose on Yidishkayt.

Awards

The magazine sponsors the annual Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and Poetry, presented since 2003.

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.

Notable contributors

Bibliography

• Stewart, Paul R., The Prairie Schooner Story: A Little Magazine's First 25 Years (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1955)

See also

• List of literary magazines

External links

• The Prairie Schooner

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