News & Extras
Prairie Fire Takes Home Two Gold, One Silver, One Honorable Mention at National Magazine Awards!
Jul 9, 2024
Prairie Fire is proud to announce that we took both gold and silver in this year's National Magazine Awards Personal Journalism category, as well as Gold in Poetry and an Honorable Mention in Fiction! Congratulations to the winners!
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Fungal: Foraging In the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon
Jun 11, 2024
Ariel Gordon’s wonderful new book, Fungal; Foraging in the Urban Forest, isn’t about fungi or mushrooms or even foraging per se. It’s really about mushrooms as obsession, as metaphor and as a glorious pathway into the wonders of nature and the foibles of human nature. From hilarious descriptions of her “mushrooming” family—Ariel, husband Mike and […]
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A brief relief from hunger by Spenser Smith
May 13, 2024
In his debut collection, A brief relief from hunger, Spenser Smith explores the edges of longing, revealing the immense human capacity for cruelty and care. On his journey toward acceptance and fulfillment, Smith’s speaker injects drugs, binges fast food, goes through rehab, and finds God in a park near Pizza Hut. Smith spends much of […]
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PF Picks up FOUR nominations at this year’s National Magazine Awards
May 2, 2024
We are over the moon to announce we have a record FOUR PF writers as finalists in this year’s National Magazine Awards! Congratulations to, Jennifer Robinson, Avalon Moore, Zilla Jones & Cooper Skjeie on their nominations! We raise a digital glass of champagne to you all! Zilla & Avalon’s work can be found in our […]
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The Spring to Spring Launch has Sprung!
Apr 25, 2024
Thank you to everyone who attended (in-person or virtually) our Spring to Spring launch of Burning Up/Burning Down and the four previous issues at McNally Robinson on Friday, April 19th! It was a lovely evening and it was great to see so many familiar faces, and meet some new ones! Here is a picture of […]
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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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