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Literary Journal of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 100 years of poetry, essays, fiction, & reviews. Posts by staff & interns https://prairieschooner.unl.edu

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@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:09 PM

"We Were Not The Wealthy Cubans” by Carmen E. Lamas appears in our Fall 2026 issue in a portfolio of Latinx Flash Memoir edited by Joy Castro.

Read the essay here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/we-w...

@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 6:17 PM

One of our favorite covers from the archive: the Summer 2000 issue of Prairie Schooner, featuring cover art by Barbara F. Kendrick.

@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 5:54 PM

Today on the Schooner Blog: meet our Fall 2026 interns! They share their favorite books, what brought them to the Schooner, and more. prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...

Meet Our Fall 2026 Interns
Meg Cordes
Margot Gissler
Hayley Grudzinski
Kaylie Mullins

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@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 1:56 PM

Annette M. Rodríguez's "Geranium" appears in our Fall 2026 issue in a portfolio of Latinx Flash Memoir edited by Joy Castro.

Read the essay here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/gera...

"This geranium emerged in Delicias, Chihuahua, México. Once, groundcover. It grew wider than the field of pumpkin-thick, velveteen eiderdown, with saucer-shaped soft peach blossoms and succulent, hairy leaves, spreading greener with age."

—Annette M. Rodríguez, "Geranium"

Fall 2026
Latinx Flash Memoir
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@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 9:01 PM

One of our favorite covers from the archive: the Fall 2014 issue of Prairie Schooner, featuring cover art by Daehyun Kim. 📸 by Schooner intern Kaylie Mullins

Cover of Fall 2014 issue of Prairie Schooner
@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 5:11 PM

Sara Daniele Rivera's "Embudito Canyon" appears in our Fall 2026 issue as part of a portfolio of Latinx Flash Memoir edited by Joy Castro. Read the essay: prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/embu...

See the table of contents, read excerpts, and order a copy: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...

"To leave your country is an unknowable risk. I think of my abuelita staring out that window, not knowing all she would lose, the things she wouldn't be able to protect her children from. A city becoming, already, a phantom."
—Sara Daniele Rivera, "Embudito Canyon"

Fall 2026
Latinx Flash Memoir
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@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 4:13 PM

See more of Friedemann-Sánchez's work: www.nancyfriedemann.com

@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 3:30 PM

Our new fall issue features cover art by Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, along with an 8-page spread of her artwork inside the issue.

See the full table of contents, read excerpts, and order a copy: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...

"Anchored in feminism, my art is informed by North and South American cultural forms that fuse and cross-pollinate. My practice is a bicultural and transcultural experience; it speaks of difference, of opposites: having grown up in Colombia and having migrated to the US as an adult. I make art in two languages about the experience of physically having moved yet remaining rooted in Colombia. I create visual expressions of that hybridity and syncretism that has taken place since the conquest of the Americas and that is replicated in the migration experience."
—Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Artist Statement

Fall 2026
Latinx Flash Memoir
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@ilanaslightly.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:38 PMReposted by @prairie-schooner.bsky.social

*sobbing*

Today is, indeed, the one year pubaversary (the publiversary?) of BEINGS, a book I worked on for so long, did so much research for, rewrote and rewrote and rewrote, and which I am so immensely proud of.

I'd be so grateful if you told your friends about it <3

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@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 3:52 PM

A new logo to mark 100 years of publishing. Here's to the next 100 years! Stay tuned for more centennial celebrations in spring 2027; we have some very exciting things planned. Many thanks to Ashley Muehlbauer of AM Book Design for her work on this new logo.

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100 Years of Poetry, Essays, Fiction

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100 Years of Poetry, Essays, Fiction

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@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 2:25 PM

Joy Castro's essay "Loving Forward Anyway" introduces her edited portfolio of Latinx Flash Memoir in our fall issue. Read the full intro here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/lovi...

Learn more about the fall issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...

"During a time of intensifying carceral peril and state violence in the United States-a time when political rhetoric is distorting, erasing, and dehumanizing many groups of people in order to lay the groundwork for our incarceration and expulsion, a time when ICE is breaking records for deaths in custody-literature still offers us the power to write back, to testify, to offer an alternative version, to leave a different record, to archive our resistance. All of us are threatened when the foundational principles of a livable society are attacked.
Literature lets us say no. Lets us say something else entirely."
—Joy Castro, "Loving Forward Anyway"

Fall 2026
Latinx Flash Memoir
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@splitlipthemag.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 5:05 PMReposted by @prairie-schooner.bsky.social

It's ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam 🔥Contributor @monmita.bsky.social is featured in the latest issue of @prairie-schooner.bsky.social. You can get your copy here: buff.ly/ZfShNdN

@longdistancecaller.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 8:15 PMReposted by @prairie-schooner.bsky.social

Here I am in the Fall '26 Prairie Schooner!
📚❤️
#author #authors
#WIP
#writingcommunity
#amwriting

In this essay, I plunge myself into what, in hindsight, looks more and more like homelessness, then move to NYC and take a job at this place in the 2000s:

@univnebpress.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 4:06 PMReposted by @prairie-schooner.bsky.social

From the Desk of poet Adam O. Davis: Death was everywhere and, suddenly, so were birds

@monmita.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 6:34 PMReposted by @prairie-schooner.bsky.social

I'm so excited to have some angry girl phenomenology in this issue of Prairie Schooner! Read my essay "Gut Feeling" in the print issue now. prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...

@danielolivas.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 4:52 PMReposted by @prairie-schooner.bsky.social

Prairie Schooner's Fall 2026 issue features a portfolio of Latinx Flash Memoir edited by Joy Castro.

I am delighted and honored that my essay "Only a Little While Here" is featured. Get your copy!
prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2... @prairie-schooner.bsky.social #litmags

@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 4:16 PM

Other contributors in the issue include John Kinsella, Laura Demers, Monmita Chakrabarti, and many more.

Contributors
Fall 2026
Volume 100 Number 3

David Joez Villaverde
John Kinsella
John Amen
Benjamin S. Grossberg
Jenniter Franklin
Joan Murray
Myronn Hardy
Nathan Metz
Rachel Hadas
Lynne Potts
Hannah Smith
Ryan R. Kelley
Josiane Kouagheu
Jory Mickelson
Abhishek Mehta
Sarah Kruse
Virginia Lake
Monmita Chakrabarti
Joemario Umana
Jordan Hamel
Jen Siraganian
Tyler McAndrew
Rebecca Lilly
Uchechukwu Onyedikam
Andrew Bertaina
Anthony Aguero
Kate Kearns
Henk Rossouw
Carolyn Williams-Noren
John Hart
Richard Cole
Laura Demers
Lizzie Hutton
Travis Cohen Acosta
Ben Perkins
@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 4:16 PM

Contributors to the Latinx Flash Memoir portfolio include Sandra Cisneros, Luis J. Rodríguez, Sara Daniele Rivera, Daisy Hernández, and many more.

Latinx Flash Memoir
Edited by Joy Castro
Fall 2026
Volume 100 Number 3

Contributors

John Morán González
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Annette M. Rodríguez
José Navarro
Luis J. Rodríguez
Rigoberto González
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez
Carmen E. Lamas
Alejandro Nodarse
Marco Fernando Navarro
Sara Daniele Rivera
Paty Abril-Gonzalez
Sergio Troncoso
Alexander Ramirez
Aracelis González Asendorf
Daisy Hernández
Raúl Lorca Madrid
Thomás Jesús Garza
Lorraine M. López
Mónica A. Jiménez
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
James López
Sandra Cisneros
Kirstin Valdez Quade
Ángel García
Lisandro Pérez
Patricia Engel
Belinda Acosta
Ana Menéndez
Brook McClurg
Daniel A. Olivas
Anjanette Delgado
@prairie-schooner.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 4:16 PM

Our Fall 2026 issue is now available! In this issue, we're excited to share a portfolio of Latinx Flash Memoir edited by Joy Castro.

See the full table of contents, read excerpts, and order now: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...

@ugapress.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 7:05 PMReposted by @prairie-schooner.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce Kasey Peters as the winner of the 2026 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction!🎊
Their collection Stop If You Want To was selected by series editor Lori Ostlund and will be published in the fall 2027. Read the announcement on our blog: https://loom.ly/QRrttuI
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Announcement graphic for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction naming Kasey Peters as the 2026 winner; includes a portrait photo and notes that Stop If You Want To will be published in Fall 2027 by University of Georgia Press.
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