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 prairieschooner.submittable.com/submit

"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." ~ Maya Angelou

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) a true giant of literature has passed away. We are at a loss of words even though he blessed our world with so many. May he rest in peace and power ❤️🌻✊🏿

"Employing a noirish style featured in the popular detective magazines of the day, 'Under Cover' proceeded in a fog of war." Michael Bobelian considers the renewed relevance of Arthur Derounian’s 1943 exposé of the United States’ Nazi underworld. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-fi…

"His discoveries served as a wakeup call for his contemporaries and a permanent record of the reactionary forces lurking just beneath the surface of the world’s oldest democracy." Michael Bobelian reconsiders Arthur Derounian’s 1943 exposé, "Under Cover." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-fi…

Hey <3 Putting together a list of "Lit mags that want to be the first place to publish you" Curious to know, what magazine published you for the first time? Bonus points if you link the piece 👀 & also, editors if your pub loves to celebrate emerging writers, lemme know!

"It challenges the reader to sit with discomfort, to follow a voice that doesn’t want to be heard, and to bear witness to histories that do not fit neatly into headlines or timeline." ––OPEN COUNTRY MAG on "The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura" opencountrymag.com/the-lives-and-…

On Octavia Butler’s birthday, celebrate the award-winning sci-fi writer by revisiting her groundbreaking body of work. → Where to Start with Octavia Butler on.nypl.org/3ZY1pMg

“Writing is not therapy. That’s the last thing it is. I still have my grief.” —Alice Notley buff.ly/w28Vqk1

These mags specifically note in their guidelines that they publish established and emerging writers alike, and placing a piece in one would look reeealll nice on the ol’ (new) literary bio. Submission details: chillsubs.com/lists/New_pres…

Happy Franz Kafka's "July 1. Too tired." day

Happy first of the month! Free subs are back open until we hit our monthly cap.🌻 Send us your best flash fiction or poetry: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/ OKD is always open for tip jar ($2.50) and expedited ($4) submissions! Fees help us pay our contributors and cover site expenses.

Mystery Guinean Girl on the Run, from Conakry to Paris: "The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura" by Tierno Monénembo reviewed in OPEN COUNTRY MAG opencountrymag.com/the-lives-and-…

Schaffner Press author Michael Bobelian (Michael Bobelian) reviews "Under Cover,” Arthur Derounian’s 1943 exposé of the United States’ Nazi underworld, for Los Angeles Review of Books: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-fi…

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

"Reading [Arthur Derounian’s] work today feels like a Hollywood prequel script recounting a villain’s origin story." Michael Bobelian on the relevance of "Under Cover,” the 1943 exposé of the United States’ Nazi underworld, for Los Angeles Review of Books: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-fi…

If we did not hold so much, I would not write. —Linda Gregg

Boman Desai of Chicago, IL is the winner of the 2025 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature for his novel "Brahms Comes to Dinner," which we will publish in June 2026! Congrats to Boman & our finalists: Andre Miftaraj, Linda Raven-Woods, Kase Johnstun, and Jim Currie.