Prairie Fire contest winners
All winning entries will appear in the
summer 2012 issue of Prairie Fire.
Winners of the 2011 Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award writing
contest,
judged by Sylvia Legris:
First Prize:
Sue Goyette, Halifax, NS: "fashion"
Second Prize:
Janice Colbert, Toronto, ON: "On Lake Winnipeg"
Third Prize:
Sadie McCarney, Fredericton, NB: "Home Bus"
Honourable Mention:
Sue Sorensen, Winnipeg, MB: "On the Road to Golders Green"
Winners of the 2011 Fiction contest,
judged by Marilyn Bowering:
First Prize:
Alice Zorn, Montreal, QC: "Frida Walks"
Second Prize:
Philip Huynh, Richmond, BC: "The Tale of Jude"
Third Prize:
Laura Trunkey, Victoria, BC: "Double Dutch"
Honourable Mention:
penny k-kilthau, Langley, BC: "Chicken Chronicles"
Winners of the 2011 Creative Non-Fiction
Writing Contest,
judged by Larry Scanlan:
First Prize:
Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Halifax, NS: "Maxime's"
Second Prize:
Susan Buis, Knutsford, BC:"Della, Duende"
Third Prize:
Jean Van Loon, Ottawa, ON: "Account of a Trip to Tuscany Together with Certain Useful Italian Phrases"
Honourable Mention:
Louise Bergen Price, Abbotsford, BC: "A Good Childhood"
Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to Jay Brown,
whose story "The Girl from the War"
(31.2) is included in the 2011
Journey Prize Stories.
Prairie Fire wins Maggies!
(Manitoba Magazine Publishers' Association Awards)
2011:
– for fiction, "Rabbit" by Théodora Armstrong (31.3)
2010:
– for fiction, "Hold Me Now" by Stephen Gauer (30.2)
2009:
– for most effective use of words: Poems by Barry Dempster (28.4)
– for best cover, image of Margaret Atwood (29.2)
Congratulations
to Mary Horodyski
winner of the Gold Award Best Article – Manitoba
at the 2010 Western Magazine Awards
for her essay "The Geography of Ambiguity,"
published in volume 31, number 2 (summer 2009).
Prairie
Fire editor Andris Taskans
was presented with the Making a Difference Award at the Mayor's
Luncheon for the Arts in Winnipeg on June 11, 2009.
Congratulations, Andris!
Prairie Fire writers honoured
at 2009 awards ceremonies
At the National Magazine Awards,
Alex Leslie won the Gold Award in the Personal
Journalism category for her essay "Prehistory" published
in Prairie Fire 29.2. Honourable mention in the same category
was awarded to Laura Trunkey for "Pennies in My Pocket:
Stories of My Brother" (29.2). Laura was also shortlisted
for the Best Student Writer award. In the Essays category,
Sheri Benning was awarded honourable mention for "Watching
Woman: The Marysburg Project" (29.1). And in the Poetry
category, honourable mentions went to Barry Dempster and
to Sylvia Legris, whose poems appeared in 28.4 and 29.3 respectively.
In the Fiction category at the Western
Magazine Awards, honourable mentions were awarded to
Buffy Cram for "Loveseat" and to Nadine McInnis
for "Heart of Blue, Glowing," both published in 29.2.
In the Gold Award for Best Article--Manitoba, honourable
mentions were garnered by Sarah Klassen for "Tanya's
Dinner Party (1997)" and by Jake MacDonald for "Do
You Wish to Report a Nuisance Alligator?," both published in
29.1. Finally, Prairie Fire was shortlisted for the
Magazine of the Year--Manitoba award.
Congratulations to all!
Prairie
Fire editor Andris Taskans
was presented with the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 26th
annual Western Magazine Awards in Richmond, BC on May 22, 2008.
From judge Zsuzsi Gartner's comments:
"Thirty years is a long time in any field, but 30 years spent
maintaining the unflagging enthusiasm, requisite drive and crazy
juggling acts that are necessary to keep a literary magazine not
just alive but thriving is an almost heroic endeavour. Prairie
Fire has been a quality publication for a long time, and that
kind of consistency is always a reault of a dedicated and talented
editor. While Andris Taskans has managed to give Prairie Fire
a strong national profile, a number of his off-shoot initiatives
have made the Manitoba writing and magazine scene infinitely richer."
The Winnipeg Connection: Writing
Lives
at Mid-Century
edited by Birk Sproxton
is still available!
Price: $29.95. 384 pages, with photos.
Available from Prairie Fire Press, prfire@mts.net
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Carol
Shields: The Arts of a Writing Life
edited by Neil K. Besner
ISBN 0-9731608-0-2
Price: $18.95
This beautiful book represents Prairie
Fire Press's first venture into book publishing. It is a rich collection
of essays, memoirs, and interviews, written by literary critics
on both sides of the Atlantic, and by friends, former teachers,
and family. The articles range generously in tone and style from
the scholarly to the personal, with an essay on her mother by Carol's
daughter Anne Giardini,
pieces by writers who have worked with
Carol, including Blanche Howard and
Dave Williamson, and warm essays by friends
of Carol's, such as Maggie Dwyer. It
features a piece by Shields herself on
what a writing life means to her.
Carol
Shields: The Arts of a Writing Life
was recognized by the Manitoba Writers' Guild and the Association
of Manitoba Book Publishers with a nomination for the 2004 Manitoba
Writing and Publishing Awards. The book was shortlisted for
the Alexander
Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction. The Isbister Award is
presented annually to the Manitoba writer whose book is judged the
best book of adult non-fiction written in English and published
in 2003. The award was created and is sponsored by the Manitoba
Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism.
For more or updated information on
any of the above, please contact Prairie Fire:
Phone : 204-943-9066
Fax: 204-942-1555
E-mail: prfire@mts.net
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