News & Extras
Happy World Poetry Day!
Mar 21, 2024
Happy World Poetry Day! This year we asked the winners of our 2023 MRB Poetry Contest to read us their prize-winning pieces. We have three videos, which we will be dropping throughout the day. Drop Schedule: 10AM CDT: Y.S. Lee (with guest Otoniya J. Okot Bitek) reading “Admission” 12PM CDT: Kerry Ryan reading “49th Parallel, […]
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New Subscriber Special! Get up to 2 Issues FREE!
Mar 13, 2024
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Spring to Spring: A Launch
Mar 11, 2024
Prairie Fire Press will be launching BURNING UP, BURNING DOWN: WORDS FOR A WORLD ON FIRE, guest edited by Sue Goyette on April 19th (7:00 PM) at McNally Robinson Booksellers Grant Park! In addition, the four previous issues dating back to spring of 2023 will also be celebrated with short readings by local contributors! We […]
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Update: 50 over 50 Issue News
Feb 20, 2024
When we set out to do this issue, we had no idea of the response it would receive. We are pleased (and a little overwhelmed) to say we received OVER ELEVEN HUNDRED submissions to this issue. With this huge amount of writers, we have had to change the way we originally wanted to handle things. […]
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UPDATE: Writers Contacted for Burning Up/ Burning Down
Jan 29, 2024
We have now contacted everyone we can accept for Burning Up/ Burning Down. If we have not contacted you, we would like to thank you for submitting and encourage you to try us again in the future.
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2023 Contest Winners Announced!
Jan 15, 2024
Congratulations to our 2023 contest winners and a big ‘Thank You’ to our judges, Bertrand Bickersteth, Jeanette Lynes & Conor Kerr! You can check out a preview of the winning pieces by clicking here.
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