Our newest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, @nadeemzaman.bsky.social, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social, and more. Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter...

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

Our latest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @bcar.bsky.social, @lenakt.bsky.social, @ninacpelaez.bsky.social, @pagestar.bsky.social, @preetivangani.bsky.social, @michaelimossan.bsky.social, and more. Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...

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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 here: news.unl.edu/article/scha...

"If there could be love without violence, there would be no breakers or boat. There would be no tower to dive from. Maybe there would be a field..." Run over & read @jessicapoli.bsky.social's poems about diving horses at Blackbird. I took the image from her post on the poems elsewhere! rb.gy/wi6md7

A NEW round of shout-outs is up on our Substack: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... @jessicapoli.bsky.social @kaicoggin.bsky.social @clmporg.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social @kashawntaylor.bsky.social @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social @mrmandell8.bsky.social @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social

We are excited to announce that this year's judge for our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest (opening May 15) is @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social, author of Bite By Bite and World of Wonders, a New York Times Bestseller and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year. For contest guidelines, visit bit.ly/cnf25

Michael—my favorite poet of night, of envelopes, of trains, of kisses, of mistakes, of sleep, of houses & their porches, of dreams, of the small huge (the parenthetically cosmic), of night, of night, of porches & their light, of let me try again to tell you, of the moon

Our team will be busy next week! Here are just a few events where you can find our editors and friends. We'll have a full list of Schooner-related events and panels in our upcoming newsletter. Sign up now: bit.ly/4irYItF

We're getting excited for AWP! Join managing editors from the Schooner, @northamerreview.bsky.social, South Dakota Review, and @coloradoreview.bsky.social for a conversation about managing a literary journal on Friday, March 28.

Our annual book prize in poetry and fiction is closing soon! Send us your manuscripts by March 15 for a chance to win $3000 and publication by @univnebpress.bsky.social. For full guidelines, visit prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize-g...

i keep thinking my work will liberate me Wanda Coleman

The Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize is closing soon! Send us your manuscript by March 15: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize-g...

"Perhaps ultimately, Poli’s collection illustrates how a collapse can lead to an expansion, leading not to an expansion of knowing, but of the true beauty of not knowing." –Grace Johnson, Colorado Review www.uapress.com/product/red-...

“ I don't know how much we want to fight to keep it. We can use it to benefit farmers and agriculture in the state, but don't want to run counter to Trump's Administration.”

Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it. Growing food is a precarious business, and losing access to key information makes it worse. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Food #Farms #Agriculture #Farmers #USDA

Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed www.hppr.org/hppr-news/20...

All morning the / Morning has been blackening, / —Sylvia Plath

Send us something good!

A not-so-small Monday miracle: I sent the first full draft of my dissertation to my advisor.

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Just shared my books to this lovely thread - go support some trans authors!

"Perhaps ultimately, Poli’s collection illustrates how a collapse can lead to an expansion, leading not to an expansion of knowing, but of the true beauty of not knowing." Grateful for this beautiful and smart review of Red Ocher by Grace Johnson. coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/red-...

I have a new poem in the latest issue of @tahomareview.bsky.social today. Many thanks to @jessicacuello.bsky.social and the editors for including it! Read the whole issue here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/issues/issue...

You can read @mayleechai.bsky.social's essay "Lilacs" in our newest issue, which features a portfolio of Editor's Picks selected by Kwame Dawes. Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/spring...

‼️Submissions Closing Soon‼️ The Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and Fiction is accepting submissions for just one more month! Winners receive $3000 and publication by @univnebpress.bsky.social. For guidelines and entry: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize-g...

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Our latest issue has arrived! Issue 98.1 features a portfolio of editor's picks selected by Kwame Dawes, celebrating 12 years of published work under his editorship. Read more about the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho... Order a copy here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/spring...

This will be played as an attack on universities and research and rightly so—it is—but someone on this list might save your life or that of someone you know if they could keep working. Many will die who didn’t need to if the cuts stand.

New criteria for NEA grants. 🤬 Scroll down to “Assurance of Compliance” section: www.arts.gov/grants/legal...

Feeling a lot of trepidation and fear and also gathering strength for the years of fighting ahead. One way I'm doing that is by celebrating good things when I can. So please celebrate the beautiful cover of my novel, BEINGS, which is now up everywhere. (pre-order links in bio 💜🙏)

tik-tok is still accessible if you can get past the wheelers

Sunday reminder. 🤍 #smallpoemsunday & @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

The Horniman Natural History Gallery features this stunning walrus. It was transported to England, purchased in 1886. There, the taxidermists, having never seen one in the wild, stuffed it until the wrinkles smoothed out. This is a fully inflated walrus, my friends. MAXIMUM WALRUS. (📷: Tom Natt)

So grateful for this kind and thoughtful review of Red Ocher by @nancyland.bsky.social in @ecotheo.bsky.social ❤️ www.ecotheo.org/etreview/red...

“I went to the window and looked out over the mounds of snow, wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice and then go back and do it again.” —Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

I am so ridiculously pleased to share, finally, that I have a new novel coming out in about nine months called BEINGS and it's about aliens and loneliness and queerness and archives. Eee!

Here’s a new little poem that appeared in the very first catalog for At What Cost. Read more here: obsession.atwhatcost.me

newly posted: Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social : on Michael Burkard (1947-2024) periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/12/tom-...

happy last #smallpoemsunday of 2024! 💜 feel free to post small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :) here’s 1 by Michael Burkard, whom sadly we lost on 12/23, & a snippet by Ben Mirov that opens a piece I wrote in memory of MB: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/12/tom-...

A piece that I wrote for teachers and it's 100% TRUE Thanks @sfreligh.bsky.social for the prompt. @porcupinelit.bsky.social is a journal for teachers. Thanks @writesloud.bsky.social & @readinstead.bsky.social Now is a good time to support teachers, particularly in the public schools

TRUST ME when I say you are going to want to read this! River is such a beautiful writer, a beautiful human, and a dear friend. The pieces I’ve read from this book as they worked on it are stunning. I can’t wait to hold this in my hands and read the whole wonderful thing. (Also, that cover 🔥🔥🔥)

Here’s your friendly reminder to plow through the labyrinth of menus in Microsoft Word to turn off all “connected experiences”. That’s their euphemism for scraping every letter you write to train their AI. Here’s how you do it. 🧵

"Maybe this is beauty. Maybe derailed beauty is still beauty." Three poems by 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴 @victoriachang.bsky.social in the Fall 2024 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

love a good “O” in a poem, little fearless halo, the line’s volume knob turned all the way up, the stanza’s submarine window through which we glimpse an ocean of thought and feeling

"Someone said/winter has broken windows...Today my heart wears you like curtains." Today's autumn poem... any other favorites? Feel free to add them to this thread.