News & Extras
Prairie Fire presents Re-Launch!
Join us at 6:30 PM on June 28th at the Little Brown Jug Patio (336 William Ave) to help us launch all the issues we couldn't launch during the dark months of the 'rona! Free refreshments & nibbles (for the first 75 people) plus readings from eleven local writers!...
Paul Dhillon’s “The Wait of Ashes” Awarded Honourable Mention at 2022 National Magazine Awards!
Congratulations to Paul Dhillon, whose story "The Wait of Ashes" was awarded honourable mention in the Personal Journalism category of the National Magazine Awards. Way to go, Paul! Want to check out the story? It can be found in our Roots & Routes issue! Take me...
Best Canadian Stories 2021, Edited by Diane Schoemperlen
Each year, Windsor, Ontario-based publisher Biblioasis releases a series of anthologies collecting the best new poetry, non-fiction and fiction produced by Canadian writers. Since 1971, these collections have offered readers an overview of the Canadian literary...
Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road by Marion Quednau
I feel for the women in Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road, an excellent short story collection by BC author, Marion Quednau. Vive la différence! does not always apply. Paired with stereotypically insensitive paradigms of manhood, these women—from whose points of view the...
“The Wait of Ashes” by Paul Dhillon Nominated for a National Magazine Award!
A big ol' congrats to Paul Dhillon whose personal journalism "The Wait of Ashes" was nominated for a National Magazine Award! "The Wait of Ashes" was featured in our "Roots and Routes" issue. Again, congrats Paul! Click to check out National Magazine Awards...
Garden Physic by Sylvia Legris
Sylvia Legris’ highly anticipated sixth book of poetry, Garden Physic, provides a welcome tonic to the apocalyptic bent of much current ecopoetics. Rather than producing a state of self-loathing and existential panic in readers, the collection works towards a nuanced...