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Animal Person by Alexander MacLeod
Animal Person by Alexander MacLeod is a short story collection that defies easy categorization, an exceptional yet accessible work of fiction that explores contemporary relationships and anxieties. As...
Congratulations to Jasmine Sealy & Zilla Jones for Journey Prize Wins!
We would like to give a huge congratulations to Jasmine Sealy & Zilla Jones on their Journey Prize wins! Jasmine won for her contest-winning piece "Caves" (which can be found in Prairie Fire issue 42.2), along with the poem "Collapse" which appeared in Room...
Standing in a River of Time by Jónína Kirton
There’s a phrase in Jónína Kirton’s memoir, Standing in a River of Time, where she speaks of belonging. Of Metis and Icelandic extraction, the author and poet walked between two worlds, the white one and the Indigenous one. Shamed and scorned by both worlds, she has...
The Peace We Make Issue Submission Update
Hello! We have made out selections for "The Peace We Make" and the writers have been contacted. If we have not contacted you, it is safe to conclude we were unable to take your submission. The issue will be out in April, so keep an eye on our website for the issue...
Bread & Water: Essays by dee Hobsbawn-Smith
Dee Hobsbawn-Smith’s Bread & Water is a bittersweet love letter to the prairies, her Hutterite ancestors, her family, and the deeper hungers they satisfy. The essay collection, which won the Saskatchewan Book Awards’ Non-Fiction Prize, includes Prairie Fire’s 2018...
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...