Winter 2024-25, Volume 45, No. 4

Our winter issue has a lot going on! Check out an interview with Winnipeg's Poet Laureate Chimwemwe Undi (interviewed by Clarise Foster) as well as the Anne Szumigalski Memorial Lecture "Call and Response" by Titilope Sonuga! Also, new work by Patrick Friesen, Kevin Irie, Crystal Randall Barnett, Genevieve Chornenki, Sara Graefe & more!

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McNally Robinson Booksellers & Prairie Fire Writing Contests Winners Announced!

You can check out the winners of the 2024 writing contests by clicking here: Onward to the winners! Thank you to everyone who entered! You did not make things easy for the judges!
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It's donation season and we're back again with another donor drive! Please consider donating to Prairie Fire, in order to help us continue to publish excellent issues and help support writers in Canada! Also, your donations are vital in helping us continue offering...
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Tote Bag Fundraiser for 50 Over 50, Part One!

We're holding a fundraiser to help with the costs of this mega, two part issue! Please consider purchasing a tote bag, featuring artwork by KC Adams (who is also in the issue!) and the names of all of our contributors for the issue! For details and to purchase, click...
Hold Your Tongue by Matthew Tétreault

Hold Your Tongue by Matthew Tétreault

Matthew Tétreault’s debut novel, Hold Your Tongue, provides a meditation on the large question of what it means to be Métis through the stories of one family. By playing with language, oral tradition, and family secrets, Tétreault weaves together a charming story...

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Fungal: Foraging In the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon

Fungal: Foraging In the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon

Ariel Gordon’s wonderful new book, Fungal; Foraging in the Urban Forest, isn’t about fungi or mushrooms or even foraging per se. It’s really about mushrooms as obsession, as metaphor and as a glorious pathway into the wonders of nature and the foibles of human nature....

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