Manitoba Kitchen Party Launch!

We’re having a party! Wanna come? Please join us for the launch of Manitoba Kitchen Party, a special issue of Prairie Fire celebrating Manitoba writing. This issue is a collection of work from writers who live in Manitoba, or writers who once did. Manitoba Kitchen Party is a celebration of place, a gathering of familiar […]

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

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 bring comfort and joy; others are confusing, painful, even traumatic. […]

2025 MRB Writing Contest Winners Announced!

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

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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 […]

Book Review

The World So Wide by Zilla Jones

Jul 15, 2025

The world is wide for Felicity Alexander, an opera singer with a “red-hot career.” But as we come to realize throughout Zilla Jones’s debut novel, The World So Wide, in which Felicity plays lead diva, when doors open for you around the world, it’s harder to find one that feels like the portal to home. […]