Guide to Literary Magazines

Prairie Schooner

201 Andrews Hall

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lincoln, NE 68588-0334

Phone: (402) 472-0911 Fax: (402) 472-9771

Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no Reading period: 9/1-5/31 Response time: 3-4 months Payment: no Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0032-6682 Founded: 1926 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals Average pages: 200 Sample copy (postpaid): $6 Cover Price: $9 Subscription (Individuals): $28 Subscription (Libraries): $30

Publisher’s Description: Prairie Schooner, a national literary quarterly published with the support of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska Press, is home to the best fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews being published today by beginning, mid-career, and established writers.

To celebrate Prairie Schooner’s tenth birthday, associate editor Maurice Johnson wrote in 1937: "Like other little magazines, the Schooner was not published for money's sake, paid nothing for contributions, and sought to print the work of new writers not yet accepted by the wealthy, policy-bound periodicals. Unlike most little magazines, the Schooner has been long-lived. . . and it has published the early work of more than twenty writers whose subsequent appearances in print have brought them general recognition."

Johnson’s vision has been upheld in Prairie Schooner’s eighty-one-year's of publication, and the modest figure of twenty writers has swelled to hundreds of authors who got their start at Prairie Schooner. The magazine has presented work by Pulitzer Prize winners, Nobel laureates, National Endowment for the Arts recipients, and Guggenheim Fellows. Work first published in Prairie Schooner has been reprinted or cited in the Pushcart Prize anthologies and many volumes of the Best American series.

Recent issues:

Winter 2007 Vol 81.4
Chris Ware’s cover opens onto a first half with prose and poems from writers like Lon Otto, John Kinsella, Marianne Boruch, Constance Merritt looking for answers. Around Sharon Dolin and Edward Beatty’s poems, the magazine features revelations. About love and sex in Tracy Daugherty stories by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Alice Friman and Daniel Mueller. The ways that revelation intersects the quotidian gets explored in poetry by David Wagoner and Anna George Meek. Nancy Zafris offers a chilling story on the theme. Liz Rosenberg offers a little hope toward the end

Fall 2007 Vol 81.3
Features a Gregory Maguire poem that explores the history of Oz. New poems come from Lola Haskins, James Cihlar, Alberto Rios, Aimee Nezhukumatathil and many others. Therese Svoboda and Stephan Wackwitz have essays about places they love. Steven Schwartz and Jane Delury write stories about family, and Margot Singer writes about the Middle East. Plus, reviews of recent books of poetry and prose.