Contest Deadline EXTENDED to December 1st!

For the last minute folks, the busy folks, the people who swear November was around 30 seconds long, we’re giving you and extra day to get those submissions in! Full contest details can be found by CLICKING HERE

Submittable CLOSED November 21-February 28th

Sorry, folks! We need to shut down Submittable for a couple of months as we get through our busiest season. We will re-open Submittable in March. Snail mail is still accepted. We understand sending via post is not possible for everyone, so if this is a barrier for you, please email Janine at prfire@prairiefire.ca and […]

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 […]

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 […]