Aliu's short story collection, Domesticated Wild Things, was the winner of the 2012 Prairie
Schooner Book Prize, and her wit, wisdom and narrative prowess will win you over.
Exploring similar themes to Aliu's short story collection, Domesticated Wild Things (winner of the 2012 Prairie
Schooner Book Prize), Brass is a unique twist on a mother - daughter story as well as an immigrant's tale, with reflections on abandonment, dreams, disappointment and the kind of resilience it takes to endure, despite all odds.
Many past winners of the Prairie
Schooner Book Prize have gone on to further publishing success: 2008's poetry winner Kara Sandito won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize and 2010's fiction winner Greg Hrbek is a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice pick for his 2015 novel Not on Fire, But Burning.
His books have been reprinted in a dozen international editions, and have been awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize for Fiction, the Prairie
Schooner Book Series Prize, a National Endowment for Arts Fellowship, and an Ohio Council for the Arts Fellowship, among others.
Not exact matches
At the third annual awards ceremony, the 2017 winners were announced: in Fiction, Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Deep Vellum); in Creative Nonfiction, Calamities by Renee Gladman (Wave
Books); in Poetry, Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney (Fence
Books); and Bennington Review and Prairie
Schooner in Magazines Best Debut and General Excellence, respectively.
He has also been published in The Atlantic, RE: AL, storySouth, The James White Review, The New Penguin
Book of Gay Short Stories, The Brooklyn Review, Prairie
Schooner, The Toronto Quarterly, West Branch, and Post Road, among others.
Her poetry has appeared in Apogee, Bennington Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Prairie
Schooner, and her essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in The Iowa Review, Los Angeles Review of
Books, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
Literary magazine Prairie
Schooner is currently accepting fiction and poetry manuscripts for its popular annual
book prize contest.
With a design similar to the trading
schooners that worked the Grand Banks of the North Atlantic for over 200 years, these classic
schooners, handled by small crews, formed the hub of the trading industry and were the basis for a thousand
books written on small sailing ships.