
Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, Eds. Andrew Chesham and Laura Farina
Books about the craft of writing often make big promises. Typically written for an audience of aspiring authors who long for the guidance of an expert, a lot of writing craft books insist that they hold the secret key to helping unlock the novels, stories, poems, and...

Five Stalks of Grain by Adrian Lysenko and Ivanka Theodosia Galadza, Ill.
The Holodomor, or Great Famine of Ukraine, is another black hole in history. Current scholarship estimates 3.5 to 5 million people of Ukraine died over the 1932 to 1933 year, as collectivization disrupted small farms and Stalin attempted to stamp out resistance with...
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Happy World Poetry Day!
Happy World Poetry Day, everyone! To celebrate, we have a poem from our 2022 McNally Robinson Booksellers Poetry Award Winner Jody Baltessen! Thank you Jody, for allowing us to publish this fabulous poem digitally for World Poetry Day! Before we get to the poem, if...
Congratulations to Jasmine Sealy & Zilla Jones for Journey Prize Wins!
We would like to give a huge congratulations to Jasmine Sealy & Zilla Jones on their Journey Prize wins! Jasmine won for her contest-winning piece "Caves" (which can be found in Prairie Fire issue 42.2), along with the poem "Collapse" which appeared in Room...