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Contest Winners Announced!
Presenting: The winners of our 2020 writing contests! A big ol' congrats to this year's winning writers & a big ol' thank you to our judges Garry Thomas Morse, Casey Plett & Trisha Cull! Info on all of our winners, along with a teaser of their winning pieces...

Our winter issue is here!
Our winter issue has arrived! Check out new work by Margaret Sweatman, Gillian Sze, Roger Nash, Tawahum Bige & more! Featuring the essay “Out of the Shadows” by Marilyn Bowering, as well as a tribute to the late Laurie Block by Bruce Sarbit. Pick up a copy here:...

The Diamond House by Dianne Warren
Dianne Warren’s most recent novel The Diamond House is quietly addictive. Her portrayal of an entrepreneurial, working-class family in Saskatchewan is deliciously compelling and uncannily realistic, particularly if you’re from the prairie province. Reading The Diamond...

❄️Happy Holidays from your friends at Prairie Fire! ❄️
We're going to be taking a much-needed break and will see you all in 2021! Wishing you and yours health, happiness, great reading & festive holidays snacks! ❤️to you all!

My Heart is a Rose Manhattan by Nikki Reimer
By the third line of the first poem in My Heart is a Rose Manhattan, Nikki Reimer writes that her new work, this work, “is grief.” It is a grief that she will acknowledge again in the closing lines of that poem when she apologizes for both her grief and her new work....

VIRTUAL LAUNCH: Living in a House On Fire
December 15th, 2020 @ 7PM (CST) Join us virtually on December 15th at 7PM (CST) for the virtual launch of Living in a House on Fire! Hosted by Guest-Editor Sheri Benning Readings by: Lauren Carter, Sarah Ens, Zilla Jones, Steve Locke, Josiah Neufeld, Amber O’Reilly,...