Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced the winners for its annual awards for books of short fiction and poetry. The winners were chosen from more than 1,100 submissions from around the world.

The Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction for 2013 goes to Amina Gautier for her manuscript, “Now We Will Be Happy.” She will receive a $3,000 prize and publication by the University of Nebraska Press. Gautier was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of the short story collection “At-Risk” (University of Georgia Press), which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. More than seventy-five of her stories have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Antioch Review, Callaloo, Chattahoochee Review, Crazyhorse, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, and Southern Review, among others. Her work has received scholarships and fellowships from the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference, Callaloo Writer’s Conference, Hurston/Wright Foundation, Sewanee Writer’s Conference, and others, as well as artist grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Stanford University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.

The winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry for 2013 is R.A. Villanueva for his manuscript, “Reliquaria.” He will receive a $3,000 prize and publication by the University of Nebraska Press. Villanueva’s writing has appeared in AGNI, Gulf Coast, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Bellevue Literary Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, his honors include the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry, fellowships from Kundiman and The Asian American Literary Review, and scholarships from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He is currently a Language Lecturer at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The competition, in its eleventh year, runs Jan. 15 to March 15 annually. Submission details and a list of past winners are available online at http://www.prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=book-prize/past-winners.

Founded in 1927, Prairie Schooner is an international literary quarterly published with the support of the English Department at UNL. It publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews by beginning, mid-career, and established writers. For more information, visit http://prairieschooner.unl.edu.