M Lynx Qualey

crawling through my emails like Wile E Coyote through the desert

where the mirage is inbox 0.

Every magazine editor I've introduced Alaa to has written me back a wondering email (or WhatsApp), days or weeks later, saying, something like, "I love Alaa." or "She is amazing."

She is. She is. She is.

New Issue: the Schooner, Winter 2024

Volume 98 Number 4 Contributors Marilyn Hacker Catherine DeNardo Deema K. Shehabi Emily Black Chase Twichell Danielle Weeks Orlando Ricardo Menes Tom Laichas Felicia Zamora Alonso Llerena Cyril Dabydeen Matthew Lippman Nadeem Zaman Christine Marshall Mary Morris Wes Matthews Marcia Lynx Qualey Genevieve Payne Sabina Urraca Rachel Ephraim J.P. White Esi W. Nkeyekyer Matthew Gellman Abbie Kiefer Karan Kapoor Joanne Clarkson Keisha-Gaye Anderson Avia Tadmor Brian Francis Chris Watkins Andrea L. Hackbarth Adam J. Gellings Jay Kophy Mariah Rigg Nicholas Samaras Brittany Perham Enzo Silon Surin Gracie Newman Robert Thomas

Our newest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, @nadeemzaman.bsky.social, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social, and more.

Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter...

The Schooner Annual Award Winners Lawrence Foundation Award $2000 Emily Black, "Boyish," Winter 2024 Virginia Faulkner Awards $500 Sonja Livingston, "Joseph the Worker," Fall 2024 & Marcia Lynx Qualey, "Echoes of a Dead Language," Winter 2024 Bernice Slote Award $500 Dana Fang, "Outdoor Education," Fall 2024 Jane Geske Award $250 Urvi Kumbhat, three poems, Fall 2024

We're pleased to share the winners of our annual literary awards for work published in Prairie Schooner in 2024. Winners include @threnody.bsky.social for the Lawrence Award and @mlynxqualey.bsky.social for the Virginia Faulkner Award.

Read more on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...

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Thank you!

When I can't remember the word "murder"

so pleased to be in the same issue as Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. 💚

thank you for sharing it!

please read this painful, beautiful testimony I’m trying not to be a nag but it arrived on my TL below some editorial being shared for rage bait and like. we could share things like this instead. not “we can do both” miss me with that. trash smell will always overpower what’s good when we “do both”

🙄 women join an industry, salaries plummet, men leave. what is the term for it? "men drain" or something?

A small discussion of publishing & Palestine.

Chicago paper's "reading list" full of fake, likely AI-generated titles You have to read down the list of 15 titles to the eleventh entry before you hit a real book .

The kicker... this "AI" generated summer reading list full of fake titles "appears in print opposite a house ad for the Sun-Times that exhorts readers to 'Donate your old car and fund the news you rely on.'"

www.axios.com/2025/05/20/a...

Springtime Travels around the World - Words Without Borders Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp recommends ten new children's books in translation, from madcap picture books to YA speculative fiction.

💚Springtime Travels around the World: Translated Children’s Books Out This Spring and Summer

wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Sorry, Francis will always be my Woke Marxist Pope.

An urgent series of WhatsApps from one of our writers in Gaza who is living in a tent with her diabetic mother, and there is neither a reliable food supply nor reliable medicine, what hell is this, what hell, what hell.

Those clients who only pay up for the previous project when they have a new book they want you to agree to edit. 🫠

so very same

yes at our kids' school, the andrew tate videos for instance had originated with a couple of the kids' dads ... as we discovered when trying to talk to the parents about how toxic they were

Event where I'm on screen projected huge behind the speaker, Maria Daadouche.

why at these hybrid events am I always ogre-sized? I look like I might turn and eat poor Maria.

Buyer's remorse that I made my persona literature/translation instead of making it women's basketball.

I’ve known, loved, marched with trans friends since I came out 45 years ago. The ugly campaign to erase them, and the fact that it includes gay men and lesbians, including friends, is devastating. Their erasure will be ours; same-sex marriage, equality, diversity and freedom are in the firing line

One thing I had definitely not understood about the rising tides of fascism is how much of a boost it gets from opportunism & grifterism.

Beautiful piece by author-publisher Husam Maarouf.

Pope Francis on the phone with Gaza.

You are missed, you are missed, you are missed.

really had no idea that, to the ultrarich, "groceries" and a "grocery bag" were such foreign matter that they might code them as "old-fashioned."

Wile E Coyote holding a sign that says This Is The End.

Slowly but surly.

Someone accidentally typoed that I was helping them slowly but surly and I thought . . . hm, yes, probably.

orange kitten by the ocean

orange cat by the ocean

cats by the ocean

orange kitten by the ocean

Love to the ocean cats.