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World Poetry Day Goodness! Cassandra Eliodor reads “I find Adam’s rib in my mother’s tongue”
Check out Cassandra Eliodor's 2024 MRB Poetry Contest winning poem "I find Adam's rib in my mother's tongue"! The poem will appear in our summer 2025 issue. Click here to head on over to Youtube to see the video, or check out our socials!
Chimwemwe Undi, Winnipeg Poet Laureate, in Conversation with Clarise Foster
Happy World Poetry Day! Enjoy this interview featured in our most recent issue! Clarise Foster: Congratulations on the publication of Scientific Marvel, your debut collection of poetry! One’s first book is such a milestone—and yours was a few years in coming. How does...
PF is now on Submittable!
We joined Submittable and are now accepting general submissions via the platform. Questions you may have: Will there be a fee to submit? Nope! We're not charging a submission fee. Can I still submit via snail mail? Absolutely! How do I submit via Submittable? By...
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...
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!
Singing the Winnipeg Blues: Notes Towards a Meditation on Winnipeg Playwriting by Rory Runnells
This is a meditation, which is defined as a discourse of considered thoughts on a subject. Here are those thoughts, but I don’t claim to be able to form a pointed discourse in satisfactory paragraphs. So the following isn’t an essay, I guess, but notes, likely...