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PF @ 40 Part 3: My Experience with the Early Sparks of Prairie Fire By Armin Wiebe
So it’s the 1970s and I have this crazy notion that I will be a writer. In Manitoba. Sending poems in response to ads in Writer’s Digest has taught me what SASE means, but I’m not sure where to buy international reply coupons. I’ve heard of the University of...
PF @ 40 Part 2: Galley-Proofs Beyond Killer Highway by Carolyn Creed
One might think an hour’s drive toward editorial work would prove as easy as breath taken and expelled, but no— even called “milk run” to summon visions of dailiness, of zip out/zip in ease, any trip along Killer Highway 6 rumbles, latent with catastrophe.Yet to...
The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories by Paulo da Costa
The author’s subtitle, “60 Sudden Fictions,” illuminates much of what a reader experiences in delving into Midwife of Torment: having entire life-narratives sprung fully grown upon the sensibilities, like Athena’s delivery from her father Zeus’s head to relieve a...
PF @ 40 Part 1: Notes Towards a Memoir by Rory Runnells
What does memory bring? More exactly what do we bring to memory? In the case of the early days of Prairie Fire, one remembers the coming together of several disparate artists and administrators at the cramped space on Donald St., the Arts Administrative Centre. It...
One Bead at a Time: A Memoir by Beverly Little Thunder
In a time of truth and reconciliation, One Bead at a Time: A Memoir by Beverly Little Thunder, is a book that should be read. This memoir is an oral account of her life stories that have been transcribed by Sharron Proulx-Turner. Beverly’s story originates with her...
Slow War by Benjamin Hertwig
Written with searing clarity and massive heart, Slow War is narrative poetry at its best. The first collection from Benjamin Hertwig, a veteran of Afghanistan, it chronicles the experiences of an unnamed soldier. We follow this soldier as he’s primed for war, plunged...