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World Poetry Day Goodness! Cassandra Eliodor reads “I find Adam’s rib in my mother’s tongue”

Mar 21, 2025

Check out Cassandra Eliodor’s 2024 MRB Poetry Contest winning poem “I find Adam’s rib in my mother’s tongue”! The poem will appear in our summer 2025 issue. Click here to head on over to Youtube to see the video, or check out our socials!

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PF's 45.4 cover featuring Chimwemwe Undi in a blue shirt and matching jacket. She is wearing gold earrings, yellow and black round glasses and has her hair long in braids. Text: Chimwemwe Undi, Winnipeg's Poet Laureate, in conversation with Clarise Foster Titlope Sonuga Call and Response.

Chimwemwe Undi, Winnipeg Poet Laureate, in Conversation with Clarise Foster

Mar 21, 2025

Happy World Poetry Day! Enjoy this interview featured in our most recent issue! Clarise Foster: Congratulations on the publication of Scientific Marvel, your debut collection of poetry! One’s first book is such a milestone—and yours was a few years in coming. How does it feel after holding it close for so long to finally have […]

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PF is now on Submittable!

Mar 13, 2025

We joined Submittable and are now accepting general submissions via the platform. Questions you may have: Will there be a fee to submit? Nope! We’re not charging a submission fee. Can I still submit via snail mail? Absolutely! How do I submit via Submittable? By following our submission guidelines for your submission and then clicking […]

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Orangey-brown background with yellow, blue, orange and grey stripes on the diagonal. In the middle is a circle with blue sky and clouds and as toy bison. Text: Hold Your Tongue, a Novel, Matthew Tetrault. At the top is a book quote: What James Joyce did for the voices of the Irish, Matthew Tetrault has done for those of his own people. - Thomas Wharton, The Book of Rain

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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