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Double Review! Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female by Tanis MacDonald & Field Notes on Listening by Kit Dobson
Dec 8, 2023
Walking is one of the most appropriate ways to appreciate one’s community, environment, and place in the world. And to walk with intention is to listen. As Rebecca Solnit writes: “Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters in conversation together, […]
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Burning Up/ Burning Down Update
Dec 6, 2023
Hi everyone! We just wanted to let you know, we’re running a little behind and acceptances will be sent out early to mid-January instead of mid-December. Also, introducing our guest editor: Sue Goyette! Sue Goyette lives in K’jipuktuk (Halifax) and has published nine books of poems and a novel. Her new collections are Monoculture (Gaspereau Press, 2022) and A […]
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Call for Submissions: 50 Over 50
Nov 20, 2023
Prairie Fire is giving centre stage to women writers over fifty! This special issue is a celebration that honours and recognizes the enormous contribution of living Canadian women writers, who have helped shape CanLit and continue to do so. If you are a woman, aged fifty and over, have at least one published piece of writing […]
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Biblioasis’s 2023 A Ghost Story for Christmas Collection
Nov 8, 2023
It’s that time of year again! As the year winds down, the temperature drops and snow covers the ground, the Christmas season lurks. The holiday tunes start a little earlier each year, stores start getting in their Christmas merch in September, and as we get closer to the “Big Day,” it gets harder and harder […]
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We Have Never Lived on Earth by Kasia Van Schaik
Oct 23, 2023
Have you ever wandered down streets at night, looking in the lit windows of other people’s homes, wondering about their lives? Charlotte, the central character of We Have Never Lived on Earth, spends much of her time wondering, like the cellist in “Houseboat,” if she “has brought her separateness with her, and that, if she […]
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Call for Submissions: Burning Up/ Burning Down
Sep 28, 2023
This spring, we’re talking about fire. This past summer, especially in Canada, we saw A LOT of fire. So much so that this year’s fire season saw the largest area burned in Canada’s history. Globally, the planet continues to heat up, and we saw a record number of heat related deaths, mostly in Europe. And, […]
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