by prfire | Jul 4, 2013 | News
by Christian Riegel In mid March, 2007, I answered the phone and mistook Denis Sproxton’s voice for that of his father, Birk. For a brief moment, I thought I was to have another of the many conversations that Birk and I regularly had about reading, writing, and the...
by prfire | Jun 24, 2013 | News
On June 7, Sue’s suite of poems “fashion” won silver at the National Magazine Awards gala in Toronto. fashion: inspiration wear In this dress you will forget your inability to be fluid and will walk into rooms as...
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...