Prairie Fire Magazine

Prairie Fire Magazine One of Canada's oldest literary magazines! Publishing new and innovative writing by emerging and established authors from Canada and beyond.

Issues are published quarterly. Prairie Fire is an award-winning Canadian journal of innovative writing that is published quarterly by Prairie Fire Press, Inc. Each issue is a fresh, vibrant mix of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction by our most celebrated writers and the hottest new voices of our emerging writers. It consistently features solid writing that will engage your mind and delight

your spirit. In a typical issue you will find a wide range of writing, including excerpts from a work-in-progress, a thoughtful essay or memoir, literary humour, lots of poetry and fiction, and sometimes something more experimental. Prairie Fire has been publishing imaginative, provocative, exceptional, worthwhile writing for over 40 years, making it one of Canada’s oldest literary magazines. Prairie Fire Press, Inc. is located on Treaty 1 territory, traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, OjiCree, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation.

Season's Greetings from Prairie Fire! We're taking a "long winter's nap" until the new year. See you in 2026!
12/22/2025

Season's Greetings from Prairie Fire! We're taking a "long winter's nap" until the new year. See you in 2026!

Check out “Reading Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing” in a Halifax bar on a rainy Wednesday afternoon while watching...
12/18/2025

Check out “Reading Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing” in a Halifax bar on a rainy Wednesday afternoon while watching Ghostbusters and listening to the bartender, who just came back from a trip to the prairies with her dog, yell her story to three drunks over aggressive mid-2000s rock. Or, Eras.” by Chris Pickrell in our fall issue! (How's that for a title, eh?)

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Update! Thank you to everyone who submitted! The authors we were able to take for this issue have been contacted. If you...
12/16/2025

Update! Thank you to everyone who submitted! The authors we were able to take for this issue have been contacted. If you have not received an email, please do try us again in the future!

The forest giveth, and the forest taketh away. Read "Like a Webbing Made of a Hundred Roots" by Jennifer DeLeskie in our...
12/12/2025

The forest giveth, and the forest taketh away.

Read "Like a Webbing Made of a Hundred Roots" by Jennifer DeLeskie in our fall issue!

Thanks to Jennifer for sending these cool (and a little creepy) collage pics!

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Happy Belated 5th Birthday to Cozy our Chief Cuddle Officer! Thank you for your service and may the next year be full of...
12/10/2025

Happy Belated 5th Birthday to Cozy our Chief Cuddle Officer! Thank you for your service and may the next year be full of toys, treats, cuddles and naps at the office. ❤🥳

Please consider supporting PF this holiday season! Your donations go towards publishing new work by great writers, as we...
12/08/2025

Please consider supporting PF this holiday season! Your donations go towards publishing new work by great writers, as well as our programming! All donations made between now and December 31st will be entered to win a $250 gift card to McNally Robinson!

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Last Call! We're shutting down the contest at 11:59:59 (CST) TONIGHT! Get those last minute submissions in! prairiefire....
12/01/2025

Last Call! We're shutting down the contest at 11:59:59 (CST) TONIGHT! Get those last minute submissions in!

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Tomorrow is the deadline! Get those submissions in! prairiefire.ca/contests/
11/30/2025

Tomorrow is the deadline! Get those submissions in!

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We're in the final stretch! Contest deadline is December 1st! prairiefire.ca/contests/
11/29/2025

We're in the final stretch! Contest deadline is December 1st!

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We're giving folks an extra day if you need it to send in contest entries! (Is it just us or has November been like, 30 ...
11/27/2025

We're giving folks an extra day if you need it to send in contest entries! (Is it just us or has November been like, 30 seconds long this year?)

If you need extra time, the final deadline is now December 1st!

Contest details: prairiefire.ca/contests/

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