Prairie Schooner is now accepting literary submissions from all writers until May 2025! This opportunity is open to everyone, and they are accepting short stories, poetry, imaginative essays, or reviews of current books.

Prairie Schooner, a national literature quarterly founded in 1926 at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is widely recognized as one of the premier literary magazines in the nation. The magazine has presented work by Nobel laureates, National Endowment for the Arts recipients, and Pulitzer Prize winners. As they get closer to a century of literature production, we see how far their reach in the literary world has expanded; beginning as a regional magazine, to the international quarterly it now is. They’ve published all sorts of works, and this wide breadth of interests is reflected in their newest submission focus: anything!

The Submission Guidelines are:

  • Essays should be double-spaced and formatted using a standard font.
  • For poetry: Send a single document containing 5-7 poems. Poems may be single-spaced but should use a standard font.
  • Reviews should be at most 1,000 words, double-spaced, and formatted using a standard font.
  • There is no submission limit, though there is no benefit to simultaneous submissions
  • Work(s) submitted should not have been published, or under consideration, elsewhere (on literary platforms, personal blogs, or social media pages).
  • When using a pseudonym they require disclosure of their use to the editor before publication.

Find more information, or submit works here

Deadline: May 1, 2025

Good luck to all applicants!