PF’s 2025 Donor Drive is here!

This giving season, 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 programs like our student practicum. Every little bit helps! If you donate before December 31st, 2025, you will be entered […]

Call for Submissions for A Manitoba Kitchen Party

Call for Submissions: A Manitoba Kitchen Party: A Celebration of Home!

Hello Manitoba! Are you up for a celebration of home? Prairie Fire Press is seeking fiction, creative nonfiction, essays and poetry that showcases and celebrates Manitoba writing by Manitoba writers. This special issue will be published in the spring of 2026 with a party! Are you a writer currently living in Manitoba, or have you […]

We’re back! Submittable now open!

Our Submittable is open! If you’re a Submittable user (Submittableite? Submittler?) and were looking to send us some work, you can now do so! Take me to Submittable! Take me to your submission guidelines!

Submittable will be closed July 1-Sept 2.

Summer Break! Submittable closed until September 2.

We’re taking a break to catch up with submissions, so we have shut down Submittable until September 2nd. Please be advised, you can still submit via Snail Mail or e-mail (if snail mail is not convenient). Contest submissions are still ongoing.

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. […]

Book Review

Scientific Marvel by Chimwemwe Undi

Jun 3, 2025

In Scientific Marvel, Chimwemwe Undi, poet, lawyer, and Canada’s 11th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, interrogates the language of care, control, and classification. In an intermingling of poetry and law, Undi dissects the bureaucratic grammars that shape how we understand the body, the migrant, the citizen, and the self. This debut collection holds space for ambiguity and […]