News & Extras

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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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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