Join us for the Winnipeg Launch of 50 Over 50, Honouring Women Writers in Canada, Part One! The post Launch Alert! 50 Over 50 Winnipeg Launch! appeared first on Prairie Fire ..read more

We’re holding a fundraiser to help with the costs of this mega, two part issue! Please consider purchasing a tote bag, featuring artwork by KC Adams (who is also in the issue!) and the names of all of our contributors for the issue! For details and to purchase, click here. The post Tote Bag Fundraiser for 50 Over 50, Part One! appeared first on Prairie Fire ..read more

Our summer contest issue is here! Time for a cold beverage, a hammock and some great reading! Snag a copy of the issue here: Summer Contest Issue The post Summer Contest Issue is HERE! appeared first on Prairie Fire ..read more

Prairie Fire is proud to announce that we took both gold and silver in this year’s National Magazine Awards Personal Journalism category, as well as Gold in Poetry and an Honorable Mention in Fiction! Congratulations to the winners! Winners: Personal Journalism Gold: Jennifer Robinson: The Passing Game (Issue 44.1, The Peace We Make) Personal Journalism Silver: Avalon Moore: Someone in a Reddish-Pink T-Shirt Walks Past the Window (Issue 44.3, Haunted: Things That Keep Us Up At Night) Poetry Gold: Cooper Skjeie: Bleach (Issue 44.2, Summer Contest Issue) Honorable Mention: Zilla Jones: Lightning ..read more

Ariel Gordon’s wonderful new book, Fungal; Foraging in the Urban Forest, isn’t about fungi or mushrooms or even foraging per se. It’s really about mushrooms as obsession, as metaphor and as a glorious pathway into the wonders of nature and the foibles of human nature. From hilarious descriptions of her “mushrooming” family—Ariel, husband Mike and daughter Anna, each of whom winds up with a cat of their own, one of which is known, affectionately, as “Philip the asshole”—to her secondary obsession with mud larking on the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, every chapter is filled with humour, acute obse ..read more

In his debut collection, A brief relief from hunger, Spenser Smith explores the edges of longing, revealing the immense human capacity for cruelty and care. On his journey toward acceptance and fulfillment, Smith’s speaker injects drugs, binges fast food, goes through rehab, and finds God in a park near Pizza Hut. Smith spends much of the collection wrestling with the dehumanizing vernacular that people employ to make sense of the stories and images of drug use they encounter on their screens and through their car windows. This rhetoric is the final form of the ‘play stupid games, win stupid p ..read more

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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