by Lindsey | Mar 20, 2023 | Feature, News
Happy World Poetry Day, everyone! To celebrate, we have a poem from our 2022 McNally Robinson Booksellers Poetry Award Winner Jody Baltessen! Thank you Jody, for allowing us to publish this fabulous poem digitally for World Poetry Day! Before we get to the poem, if...
by Lindsey | Jan 30, 2023 | Feature, News
We would like to give a huge congratulations to Jasmine Sealy & Zilla Jones on their Journey Prize wins! Jasmine won for her contest-winning piece “Caves” (which can be found in Prairie Fire issue 42.2), along with the poem “Collapse” which...
by Lindsey | Jan 9, 2023 | Feature, News, Submission Call
Hello! We have made out selections for “The Peace We Make” and the writers have been contacted. If we have not contacted you, it is safe to conclude we were unable to take your submission. The issue will be out in April, so keep an eye on our website for...
by Lindsey | Mar 21, 2022 | Feature, News
We’ve got a selection of poems by Duncan Mercredi (featured in our winter 2021-22 issue) in their entirety to celebrate World Poetry Day! Our thanks to Duncan for letting us post these and to Pierrette Boily of Pierrette Boily Photographie for allowing us to use...
by prfire | Sep 28, 2019 | News
On the afternoon of Friday, September 27th, 2019, Andris Taskans passed away. Andris was one of the founders of Prairie Fire and had worked diligently at the magazine since its inception. He was a kind man, who always had a story to tell. Perhaps that’s why he...
by prfire | Aug 3, 2018 | Extras, News
So it’s the 1970s and I have this crazy notion that I will be a writer. In Manitoba. Sending poems in response to ads in Writer’s Digest has taught me what SASE means, but I’m not sure where to buy international reply coupons. I’ve heard of the University of...
