Winter 2024-25, Volume 45, No. 4

Our winter issue has a lot going on! Check out an interview with Winnipeg's Poet Laureate Chimwemwe Undi (interviewed by Clarise Foster) as well as the Anne Szumigalski Memorial Lecture "Call and Response" by Titilope Sonuga! Also, new work by Patrick Friesen, Kevin Irie, Crystal Randall Barnett, Genevieve Chornenki, Sara Graefe & more!

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Artspace building in Winnipeg's Exchange District on a sunny summer day. Text reads Home is where the heART is

Home is Where the HeART is

We wanted to let you know CTV News recently did a story on the building Prairie Fire is housed within, The Artspace Building. Our home recently had a catastrophic sewer line break, which has led to the building having no water for over two weeks now, and it does not...
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McNally Robinson Booksellers & Prairie Fire Writing Contests Winners Announced!

You can check out the winners of the 2024 writing contests by clicking here: Onward to the winners! Thank you to everyone who entered! You did not make things easy for the judges!
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‘Tis the Season! Holidays and Package Delays

Hi folks! Just a quick update: We will be starting to send out packages again early in the new year. Canada Post won't accept new packaged until the 19th and that is our last day in office before we break for the holidays, so packages will be sent out in after January...
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Donate Today & Support PF!

It's donation season and we're back again with another donor drive! Please consider donating to Prairie Fire, in order to help us continue to publish excellent issues and help support writers in Canada! Also, your donations are vital in helping us continue offering...
A brief relief from hunger by Spenser Smith

A brief relief from hunger by Spenser Smith

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...

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Home is Where the HeART is

We wanted to let you know CTV News recently did a story on the building Prairie Fire is housed within, The Artspace Building. Our home recently had a catastrophic sewer line break, which has led to the building having no water for over two weeks now, and it does not...

read more

‘Tis the Season! Holidays and Package Delays

Hi folks! Just a quick update: We will be starting to send out packages again early in the new year. Canada Post won't accept new packaged until the 19th and that is our last day in office before we break for the holidays, so packages will be sent out in after January...

read more