Winner of the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction“The alien abduction meets lesbian yearning novel that will restore your faith in the universe. Ilana Masad excavates the juicine...

Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize. He is a recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prize and the 2016 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work has appeared in AGNI, the Believer, the Kenyon Review, the Paris Review…

Latinx Flash Memoir Loving Forward Anyway (preface, Latinx Flash Memoir portfolio)Joy Castro CheckpointJohn Morán González GeraniumAnnette M. Rodríguez

Latinx Flash Memoir Loving Forward Anyway (preface, Latinx Flash Memoir portfolio)Joy Castro CheckpointJohn Morán González GeraniumAnnette M. Rodríguez

The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Kasey Peters as the winner of the 2026 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

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

Han VanderHart, Mialise Carney We're excited to announce the winners of the 2026 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize! In poetry, Han VanderHart has

On a particularly foggy evening downtown, I meet Sophie Strohmeier on a sidewalk, cars swimming around us, some leaving Manhattan and others returning to

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Literary Nonfiction feat. @kenyonreview.bsky.social @prairie-schooner.bsky.social @markaz-review.bsky.social @copytext.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/nonfiction/fee-free-literary-nonfiction-IvOVA9kZ

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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)

In her latest poetry collection, PULSE, Maria Nazos ushers her readers across the lines of passion and suffering, of love and cruelty, and of the obsessions that drive us. In poems that are as equally...

Our summer issue—On the Body—is now available! Featuring poetry, fiction, and nonfiction on body image, health, beauty, biology, hearts, heartbreak, and

Prairie Schooner Assistant Nonfiction Editors Lydia Abedeen and Alexia Woodall recently spoke to Orenda Fink about essay writing. Fink is the author of

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Amanda Rizkalla, a recent Steinbeck Fellow and Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow, is the author of Hungered, her debut novel published

The following interview with Summer Farah, conducted by Marlin M. Jenkins on September 15, 2025 over Zoom, has been edited for length, sequence, and