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Earle Street: Poems by Arleen Paré
Feb 21, 2023
In Earle Street: Poems, Arleen Paré digs into the infrastructure of place. Unearths for us the very foundations of urban life. As if to say “Look! This is who we are”. Not simply people inside buildings. But storm drains and catch basins, trees and their inhabitants, the passing seasons, birds in flight, neighbours observing […]
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Animal Person by Alexander MacLeod
Feb 7, 2023
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 a character thinks in “Once Removed”: You think you are in one situation, but then it turns out to be something else (185). Seemingly mundane situations—a […]
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Congratulations to Jasmine Sealy & Zilla Jones for Journey Prize Wins!
Jan 30, 2023
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 Magazine. Zilla Jones (Prairie Fire Board Member) won for her story […]
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Standing in a River of Time by Jónína Kirton
Jan 17, 2023
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 always felt an outsider until, she writes, she is […]
Read MoreThe Peace We Make Issue Submission Update
Jan 9, 2023
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 when it comes […]
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Bread & Water: Essays by dee Hobsbawn-Smith
Dec 15, 2022
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 non-fiction contest winner “Wiebo’s Way” about a newly divorced Hobsbawn-Smith’s visit to the compound of fundamentalist […]
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