Winter 2023-2024, Volume 44, No. 4

This issue features the 2023 Anne Szumigalski Memorial Lecture by Joshua Whitehead called "On Paranoid and Reparative Writing" as well as scenes from Dale Lakevold & Darrell Racine's play "She-She Quois Rattle"! Plus all the fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry you expect from Prairie Fire. New work by Deborah Schnitzer, Scott Randall, Elana Wolff & more!

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Bleeding Light by Rob Benvie

Bleeding Light by Rob Benvie

Content warning: gun violence in a school (there are dark themes and drug use throughout, but the most shocking, triggering event is a school shooting that is mostly averted but could be very triggering) Rob Benvie is the author of two previous novels, Maintenance and...

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Spring to Spring: A Launch

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