We are over the moon to announce we have a record FOUR PF writers as finalists in this year’s National Magazine Awards! Congratulations to, Jennifer Robinson, Avalon Moore, Zilla Jones & Cooper Skjeie on their nominations! We raise a digital glass of champagne to you all! Zilla & Avalon’s work can be found in our Haunted Issue. Click here to snag a copy. Cooper’s poem can be found in our summer contest issue. Click here to snag a copy. Jennifer’s piece can be found in The Peace We Make. Click here to snag a copy. You can read all four pieces on the National Magazine Awards website here ..read more

Thank you to everyone who attended (in-person or virtually) our Spring to Spring launch of Burning Up/Burning Down and the four previous issues at McNally Robinson on Friday, April 19th! It was a lovely evening and it was great to see so many familiar faces, and meet some new ones! Here is a picture of our readers from the evening. Readers from left to right: Deborah Schnitzer, Catherine Hunter, Kerry Ryan, Will Fawley, Cale Plett, Evan J, Zilla Jones, Jody Baltessen, Rowan Smith-McCandless, Alex Merrill, Margaret Sweatman. The post The Spring to Spring Launch has Sprung! appeared first on Pr ..read more

Happy World Poetry Day! This year we asked the winners of our 2023 MRB Poetry Contest to read us their prize-winning pieces. We have three videos, which we will be dropping throughout the day. Drop Schedule: 10AM CDT: Y.S. Lee (with guest Otoniya J. Okot Bitek) reading “Admission” 12PM CDT: Kerry Ryan reading “49th Parallel, Early July” 2PM CDT: John O’Neill reading “The News” All videos can be found on our social media or our YouTube page (link here!) We hope you enjoy World Poetry Day! The post Happy World Poetry Day! appeared first on Prairie Fire ..read more

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Prairie Fire Press will be launching BURNING UP, BURNING DOWN: WORDS FOR A WORLD ON FIRE, guest edited by Sue Goyette on April 19th (7:00 PM) at McNally Robinson Booksellers Grant Park! In addition, the four previous issues dating back to spring of 2023 will also be celebrated with short readings by local contributors! We hope to see you there for an evening of great reading by: Jody Baltessen Will Fawley Evan J Zilla Jones Rowan McCandless Alex Merrill Cale Plett Jennifer Robinson Kerry Ryan Deborah Schnitzer & Margaret Sweatman Hosted by Kristian Enright The post Spring to Spring: A Laun ..read more

When we set out to do this issue, we had no idea of the response it would receive. We are pleased (and a little overwhelmed) to say we received OVER A THOUSAND submissions to this issue. With this huge amount of writers, we have had to change the way we originally wanted to handle things. Firstly, the amount of time and resources we would need to compile a list of everyone’s contact info is not feasible, so we will not be able to send out individual rejections (please be aware we are doing this issue without submissions technology like Submittable. We’re still pretty old school…but working on ..read more

We have now contacted everyone we can accept for Burning Up/ Burning Down. If we have not contacted you, we would like to thank you for submitting and encourage you to try us again in the future. The post UPDATE: Writers Contacted for Burning Up/ Burning Down appeared first on Prairie Fire ..read more

Congratulations to our 2023 contest winners and a big ‘Thank You’ to our judges, Bertrand Bickersteth, Jeanette Lynes & Conor Kerr! You can check out a preview of the winning pieces by clicking here. The post 2023 Contest Winners Announced! appeared first on Prairie Fire ..read more

Thank you to everyone who donated to our annual donor campaign! The winner of this year’s prize package has been contacted. We truly appreciate all of your donations, big or small, or even just kind words. You all are the best. The post Annual Donor Campaign Prize Package Winner Selected! appeared first on Prairie Fire ..read more

The Prairie Fire office will be closed from Dec. 22nd until January 2nd. We will respond to emails and such at that time. See you in the new year! The post PF Office Holiday Closure appeared first on Prairie Fire ..read more