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.

Submittable should be working now! Sorry for the bugs!
09/01/2026

Submittable should be working now! Sorry for the bugs!

Our new Submittable forms are acting buggy. We're fixing them, hang tight! We'll post when they're working!
09/01/2026

Our new Submittable forms are acting buggy. We're fixing them, hang tight! We'll post when they're working!

Our fall submission period is now open on Submittable! Submission period runs from September 1 until Nov 30th, or until ...
09/01/2026

Our fall submission period is now open on Submittable! Submission period runs from September 1 until Nov 30th, or until submission cap reached.

08/27/2026

Ken Wilson reads from "The Bear on the Path to Tofino" which is featured in our summer issue and won our 2025 MRB Creative Non-Fiction contest!

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Our summer issue is here! Snag a copy at prairiefire.ca/current-issue/Thanks for Anna Mark for this great graphic! Read ...
08/24/2026

Our summer issue is here!

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Thanks for Anna Mark for this great graphic! Read her whole poem "Woman in Yellow" in the summer issue.

Our summer issue features new work by Martha Grace Duncan! Get your copy in bookstores around Canada and online on our w...
08/19/2026

Our summer issue features new work by Martha Grace Duncan! Get your copy in bookstores around Canada and online on our website. Thanks to Martha Grace for the family pic!

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Our "foxy" summer issue has arrived! 🦊Snag a copy before they're all gone! Prairiefire.ca/current-issue/
08/11/2026

Our "foxy" summer issue has arrived! 🦊

Snag a copy before they're all gone!

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Our summer issue is on sale NOW at prairiefire.ca and in bookstores around the country. 😎Check out the issue at prairie...
08/06/2026

Our summer issue is on sale NOW at prairiefire.ca and in bookstores around the country. 😎

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Check out new work by Tazi Rodrigues in our summer issue, out now!Prairiefire.ca/current-issue/
07/29/2026

Check out new work by Tazi Rodrigues in our summer issue, out now!

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It's here! The summer issue has arrived! The issue is now live on the Prairie Fire website.Details: prairiefire.ca/curre...
07/21/2026

It's here! The summer issue has arrived!

The issue is now live on the Prairie Fire website.

Details: prairiefire.ca/current-issue/

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