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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!

‘Tis the Season! Holidays and Package Delays
Hi folks! Just a quick update: We will be starting to send out packages again early in the new year. Canada Post won't accept new packaged until the 19th and that is our last day in office before we break for the holidays, so packages will be sent out in after January...

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...

Contest deadline EXTENDED to Monday!
Take the weekend! We're extending the contest deadline to Monday night at 11:59:59pm! You can enter the contest here.

Donate Today & Support PF!
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...