
The Pump by Sydney Warner Brooman ( now Hegele)
Note: author now goes by Sydney Hegele “Who’s ready to earn their beaver badge?” (20) The brutal enchantment of old-world folktales meets the mundane horrors of small-town Ontario in Sydney Hegele’s debut story collection The Pump. With a fast-paced plot and haunting...

Best Canadian Stories 2021, Edited by Diane Schoemperlen
Each year, Windsor, Ontario-based publisher Biblioasis releases a series of anthologies collecting the best new poetry, non-fiction and fiction produced by Canadian writers. Since 1971, these collections have offered readers an overview of the Canadian literary...
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Re-Launch was Re-Launched!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our event at Little Brown Jug on June 28th! We had a blast! (See what we did there?) Here are some pictures from the event. Thanks again to the Canada Council For the Arts Re-Opening Fund, to our amazing board for helping out, to...
Prairie Fire presents Re-Launch!
Join us at 6:30 PM on June 28th at the Little Brown Jug Patio (336 William Ave) to help us launch all the issues we couldn't launch during the dark months of the 'rona! Free refreshments & nibbles (for the first 75 people) plus readings from eleven local writers!...