News & Extras
PF’s 2025 Donor Drive is here!
Nov 6, 2025
This giving season, please consider donating to Prairie Fire, in order to help us continue to publish excellent issues and help support writers in Canada! Also, your donations are vital in helping us continue offering programs like our student practicum. Every little bit helps! If you donate before December 31st, 2025, you will be entered […]
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Call for Submissions: A Manitoba Kitchen Party: A Celebration of Home!
Sep 9, 2025
Hello Manitoba! Are you up for a celebration of home? Prairie Fire Press is seeking fiction, creative nonfiction, essays and poetry that showcases and celebrates Manitoba writing by Manitoba writers. This special issue will be published in the spring of 2026 with a party! Are you a writer currently living in Manitoba, or have you […]
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We’re back! Submittable now open!
Sep 2, 2025
Our Submittable is open! If you’re a Submittable user (Submittableite? Submittler?) and were looking to send us some work, you can now do so! Take me to Submittable! Take me to your submission guidelines!
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The World So Wide by Zilla Jones
Jul 15, 2025
The world is wide for Felicity Alexander, an opera singer with a “red-hot career.” But as we come to realize throughout Zilla Jones’s debut novel, The World So Wide, in which Felicity plays lead diva, when doors open for you around the world, it’s harder to find one that feels like the portal to home. […]
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Summer Break! Submittable closed until September 2.
Jul 2, 2025
We’re taking a break to catch up with submissions, so we have shut down Submittable until September 2nd. Please be advised, you can still submit via Snail Mail or e-mail (if snail mail is not convenient). Contest submissions are still ongoing.
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Congratulations to Shashi Bhat & Erin Wilson!
Jun 16, 2025
Congratulations to Shashi Bhat & Erin Wilson both won silver in their respective categories at the National Magazine Awards! Shashi took silver in Fiction and Erin took silver in Poetry. Shashi Bhat’s piece “Code Orange” is in our summer 2024 issue found here. Erin Wilson’s piece “A Walking Prayer” is in our winter 2023-24 issue […]
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