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Manitoba Kitchen Party: Launched!

Thank you to everyone who came out to the launch of Manitoba Kitchen Party! Thank you to McNally for having us, Kristian Enright for hosting and a big ol’ thanks to all of our readers! You all made the evening fantastic! If you missed the event, McNally has it on YouTube and you can watch […]

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Happy World Poetry Day 2026!

Happy World Poetry Day! This World Poetry Day (March 21, 2026) we will be releasing two videos of our 2025 MRB Poetry Contest winners reading their winning poems. Check out Sean Howard read “Taken Leaves” at 10 a.m. (CDT) and Pamela Dillon read “Caesura” at 2 p.m. (CDT). Those videos will be on our social […]

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[NOW CLOSED] New Call for Creative Non-Fiction Submissions: Lost and Found: Things Forgotten, Things Remembered

Call now closed. Thank you to everyone who sent work! Prairie Fire Press invites creative nonfiction on the theme of remembering and forgetting for our fall 2026 issue. Our survival and growth have always depended on both. Memory helps shape who we are and how we understand our connection to others—personally, culturally, historically. Some memories […]

2025 MRB Writing Contest Winners Announced!

The winners are here! Thank you to everyone who entered! To check out the winning authors, click here.

Book Review

Theorists Behaving Badly: A review of Garry Thomas Morse’s Retcon

Apr 29, 2026

It helps to know a bit about film when cracking the covers of Retcon—or a lot. Repeat Governor General’s Award nominee Morse’s newest novel—a companion book to 2023’s Tulpa Mea Culpa—is just as obsessed with academic politics, metafiction, and genre-hopping at the speed of sound, but it’s built almost purely out of film references: Godard, […]

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Book Review

Days of Feasting and Rejoicing by David Bergen

Jan 19, 2026

In the biblical Book of Esther, days of feasting and rejoicing follow the deaths of 75,000 Persians who plotted against Queen Esther and her king. Author David Bergen, on Michael Elves’ podcast Turning Pages, revealed that he chose Days of Feasting and Rejoicing as the title of his latest novel because he wanted to explore […]