by prfire | Aug 3, 2018 | Extras, News
So it’s the 1970s and I have this crazy notion that I will be a writer. In Manitoba. Sending poems in response to ads in Writer’s Digest has taught me what SASE means, but I’m not sure where to buy international reply coupons. I’ve heard of the University of...
by prfire | Jul 27, 2018 | Extras, News
One might think an hour’s drive toward editorial work would prove as easy as breath taken and expelled, but no— even called “milk run” to summon visions of dailiness, of zip out/zip in ease, any trip along Killer Highway 6 rumbles, latent with catastrophe.Yet to...
by prfire | Jul 20, 2018 | Extras, News
What does memory bring? More exactly what do we bring to memory? In the case of the early days of Prairie Fire, one remembers the coming together of several disparate artists and administrators at the cramped space on Donald St., the Arts Administrative Centre. It...
by prfire | Jan 17, 2013 | Extras, News
by Pam Chamberlain (a slightly edited version of this essay appears in Prairie Fire 33.3) In Sharon Butala’s bestselling and award-winning The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature, the narrator moves from the city of Saskatoon1 to a ranch on the...
by prfire | Nov 22, 2012 | Extras
by Geoff Hancock The following interviews took place over three mornings at my place in Stratford, Ontario. From May until October during the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Gay Allison and I operate a bed and breakfast. Sharon arrived for some theatre and fine...
