News & Extras
50 Over 50 Update, Updated
When we set out to do this issue, we had no idea of the response it would receive. We are pleased (and a little overwhelmed) to say we received OVER ELEVEN HUNDRED submissions to this issue. With this huge amount of writers, we have had to change the way we originally...
Summer Contest Issue is HERE!
Our summer contest issue is here! Time for a cold beverage, a hammock and some great reading! Snag a copy of the issue here: Summer Contest Issue
Prairie Fire Takes Home Two Gold, One Silver, One Honorable Mention at National Magazine Awards!
Prairie Fire is proud to announce that we took both gold and silver in this year's National Magazine Awards Personal Journalism category, as well as Gold in Poetry and an Honorable Mention in Fiction! Congratulations to the winners! Winners: Personal Journalism Gold:...
Fungal: Foraging In the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon
Ariel Gordon’s wonderful new book, Fungal; Foraging in the Urban Forest, isn’t about fungi or mushrooms or even foraging per se. It’s really about mushrooms as obsession, as metaphor and as a glorious pathway into the wonders of nature and the foibles of human nature....
A brief relief from hunger by Spenser Smith
In his debut collection, A brief relief from hunger, Spenser Smith explores the edges of longing, revealing the immense human capacity for cruelty and care. On his journey toward acceptance and fulfillment, Smith’s speaker injects drugs, binges fast food, goes through...
PF Picks up FOUR nominations at this year’s National Magazine Awards
We are over the moon to announce we have a record FOUR PF writers as finalists in this year's National Magazine Awards! Congratulations to, Jennifer Robinson, Avalon Moore, Zilla Jones & Cooper Skjeie on their nominations! We raise a digital glass of champagne to...