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Paperback is out today, With My Back to the World

MIGHT KINDRED by Mónica Gomery, winner of Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, is rooted in the body and its cousins, seeking the possibility of kinship, “in case we might kindness, might ardor together.” Save 40% during National Poetry Month: bit.ly/PoetryMonth25

Now available from BOA Editions: our very own Assistant Poetry Editor, Chaun Ballard, has released his debut poetry collection, SECOND NATURE, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Order now from BOA: boaeditions.org/collections/ch…

If you're in Lincoln, we hope you can join us for this special event with Camille Dungy, poet and author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. The free public reading and talk will start at 5:30 in the Steinhart Room in the Lied Center. UNL Creative Writing UNL Department of English Nebraska CAS

Winner of Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, AMERICAN RADIANCE, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author’s experience immigrating as a child to the United States from Ukraine in 1991. Save 40% during National Poetry Month: bit.ly/PoetryMonth25

This Thursday April 17, join us at Francie & Finch at 5:30 pm for a reading with Deborah Jackson Taffa, author of Whiskey Tender, National Book Award Finalist and Best Book of the Year at Washington Post, Esquire, Time, The Atlantic, NPR, and Publishers Weekly.

We're starting the week with a quote of from Africa's first Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka.

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

« to wait and wait… » —Lena Khalaf Tuffaha لينا خلف تفاحة’s stunning poem « Water and Salt » translated here (with her permission) into Arabic by Mariam Naji—in our bilingual collection #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar

Next Monday in Lincoln, Tuesday in Omaha. Ill be reading from my new collection of poems alongside poets I admire. Lets hangout!

Lory Bedikian, author of JAGADAKEER: APOLOGY TO THE BODY (winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry), has two poems featured in the Spring 2025 issue of Ploughshares is on Bluesky! pshares.org/authors/lory-b…

Today in Lincoln! Join us at Francie & Finch Bookshop (130 S 13th St) at 5:30pm for a reading with Deborah Jackson Taffa, author of Whiskey Tender.

weekly talk story about Literary Namjooning | Subs Closed!'s one year birthday, acceptances from Prairie Schooner and Fractured Lit and reading for the Kerouac Project... melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/202…

Honored to have an essay in the latest issue of AWP's The Writer's Chronicle a/b the ableist policies and practices of traditional writing workshops, how writing instructors can unlearn these methods, and my SundressPublications craft book NERVE. writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-april…

Our annual submission period is closing soon! Send us your stories, poems, essays, and reviews by May 1 to be considered for an upcoming issue of the Schooner. We never charge a submission fee for general submissions. For more info and to submit, visit prairieschooner.unl.edu/submit/

Tomorrow at Reactor Coffee, UNL Creative Writing's No Name Reading Series continues with a reading featuring Schooner Book Prize Coordinator Nicole Lachat, Schooner RA Manasseh Awuni, and UNL PhD student Azaria Brown. Join us at 6:30 pm on Friday, April 25.

UNL graduate student and Schooner staff member Manasseh Awuni reflects on Camille Dungy's visit to UNL earlier this month for a UNL Creative Writing celebration of National Poetry Month. prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-schoon…

Our #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth reading list gathers poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and more from indie presses and magazines including Ayin Press, Regal House Publishing, @RadixMedia, Sarabande Books, Acre Books, Restless Books & Red Hen Press—find them all here: clmp.org/news/a-reading…