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Hold Your Tongue by Matthew Tétreault
Feb 20, 2025
Matthew Tétreault’s debut novel, Hold Your Tongue, provides a meditation on the large question of what it means to be Métis through the stories of one family. By playing with language, oral tradition, and family secrets, Tétreault weaves together a charming story about finding one’s place both as a member of a family and as […]
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McNally Robinson Booksellers & Prairie Fire Writing Contests Winners Announced!
Jan 15, 2025
You can check out the winners of the 2024 writing contests by clicking here: Onward to the winners! Thank you to everyone who entered! You did not make things easy for the judges!
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Singing the Winnipeg Blues: Notes Towards a Meditation on Winnipeg Playwriting by Rory Runnells
Dec 5, 2024
This is a meditation, which is defined as a discourse of considered thoughts on a subject. Here are those thoughts, but I don’t claim to be able to form a pointed discourse in satisfactory paragraphs. So the following isn’t an essay, I guess, but notes, likely incomplete but at least considered, I hope. Where to […]
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Contest deadline EXTENDED to Monday!
Nov 29, 2024
Take the weekend! We’re extending the contest deadline to Monday night at 11:59:59pm! You can enter the contest here.
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Donate Today & Support PF!
Nov 7, 2024
It’s donation season and we’re back again with another donor drive! 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 […]
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Thank you, Victoria!
Oct 29, 2024
Our Victoria launch was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who came out! And thank you to our lovely readers, and Caffe Fantastico for hosting. We had a great time meeting everyone and visiting your beautiful island. ♡ Here are some photos from the event. The lighting was not ideal for pictures, but we […]
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