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The Quiet Is Loud by Samantha Garner
As a book reviewer and editor, I try to approach new books without grand expectations or assumptions about their content or style. But, since I’m also a tarot reader and fan of speculative fiction, it was inevitable that I would draw conclusions about Samantha...

Biblioasis’s 2022 A Ghost Story for Christmas Collection
Another year, another collection of ghost stories to add a little eerie fun to the holidays. Biblioasis and illustrator Seth’s offerings this year are a little on the tamer side than in year’s past, but still provide a nice, creepy reprieve from all the holly and...

Our 2022 Donation Drive is on NOW!
CLICK HERE TO DONATE Our annual donor drive is on now! Your donations are vital to helping us publish Prairie Fire and to continue offering programs like our student practicum. Those who donate by December 31st, 2022, will be entered into a draw to win a fabulous gift...

Believing is Seeing is Here!
Our fall issue has arrived and it is full of great writing and a special section of illustrated stories by BIPOC graphic artists! Check it out here: Take me to the fall issue!

A History of the Theories of Rain by Stephen Collis
There is a telling line in Stephen Collis’s 2021 collection, A History of the Theories of Rain—in fact, there are many. But for me, the line that captures the book’s central concern, the daunting, infuriatingly impersonal disaster of climate change bearing down upon...

The Music Game by Stéfanie Clermont, translated from French by J.C. Sutcliffe
The Music Game would have shattered me when I was twenty-five. At thirty-two, this book still stings me like salt in a wound that hasn’t truly closed. Originally published in French in 2017 and winner of several prizes including the prestigious Ringuet Prize, Stéfanie...