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Prairie Fire: Speaking Volumes, May 12
Prairie Fire invites you to a fundraising benefit
“SPEAKING VOLUMES”
Saturday, May 12, 2012
“SPEAKING VOLUMES” – CELEBRATES 33 YEARS OF PUBLISHING with award-winning writers Dora Dueck and J.R. Léveillé. This benefit directly supports Prairie Fire’s ongoing, in-depth practicum in publishing program.
Join us on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at Fort Gibraltar, 866 rue St. Joseph in old St. Boniface and hear readings by these award-winning writers.
Dora Dueck received the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award in …
“Finding Your Voice/Finding Your Place”
Sign up for a writers’ weekend with creative writing instructors Donna Besel and Kate Bitney at beautiful Falcon Trails Resort, April 13-15, 2012. Weekend includes 3 nights stay in luxurious lakefront cabin, gourmet meals, hot tubs, sauna, and plenty of writing sessions designed to encourage, inspire, and motivate. Visit Falcon Trails’ website (http://www.falcontrails.mb.ca) to find out more and to register for this event.
Donna Besel loves writing of all kinds: short stories, novels, poems, articles, songs. Her work …
“Finding Your Voice/Finding Your Place”
Sign up for a writers’ weekend with creative writing instructors Donna Besel and Kate Bitney at beautiful Falcon Trails Resort, April 13-15, 2012. Weekend includes 3 nights stay in luxurious lakefront cabin, gourmet meals, hot tubs, sauna, and plenty of writing sessions designed to encourage, inspire, and motivate. Visit Falcon Trails’ website (http://www.falcontrails.mb.ca) to find out more and to register for this event.
Donna Besel loves writing of all kinds: short stories, novels, poems, articles, songs. Her work …
Just a reminder…
Prairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers
2011 Writing Contests
3 contests, $6,000 in cash prizes!
Bliss Carman Poetry Award
The poetry first prize is in part donated by the Banff Centre for the Arts, who will also award a jeweller-cast replica of poet Bliss Carman’s silver and turquoise ring to the first-prize winner. (1-3 poems per entry, maximum 150 lines per entry)
Judge: Sylvia Legris
Short Fiction
(one story per entry, maximum 10,000 words)
Judge: Marilyn Bowering
Creative Non-Fiction
(one …
Saturday, May 7th, 2011 at Fort Gibralter in historic St. Boniface is Speaking Volumes, Prairie Fire’s annual fundraiser.
It’s a fantastic night of literary entertainment, hatchet throwing and food!
This year’s readers are poet Ariel Gordon and novelist Jake McDonald, whose young adult novel Julianna and the Medicine Fish was chosen to be this years ‘Manitoba Reads’ book!
Tickets are $65 (are partially tax deductible) and are available through Prairie Fire.
Cocktails & Hatchet throwing at 6:00, Dinner at 7:00, Readings at 8:00, Silent & …
Cantus Borealis: Song of the Forest
Four disciplines converge
in boreal forest…
The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra partnered with Prairie Fire Press to celebrate the boreal forest in Manitoba. A composer, a writer, a sound artist and a photographer; all set loose in the boreal forest and wait ’til you hear what happened!
They tangled with the birds, bees, trees, rocks, water and spirits to create a new work that is inspired by the diversity of the biome and the artists involved. Scott Yoo will premiere this exciting new choral work, featuring …
Prairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers
2011 Writing Contests
3 contests, $6,000 in cash prizes!
Bliss Carman Poetry Award
The poetry first prize is in part donated by the Banff Centre for the Arts, who will also award a jeweller-cast replica of poet Bliss Carman’s silver and turquoise ring to the first-prize winner. (1-3 poems per entry, maximum 150 lines per entry)
Judge: Sylvia Legris
Short Fiction
(one story per entry, maximum 10,000 words)
Judge: Marilyn Bowering
Creative Non-Fiction
(one article per entry, maximum …
PRAIRIE FIRE PRESS AND MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOKSELLERS 2010 WRITING CONTESTS - 3 contests, $6,000 in cash prizes!
Bliss Carman Poetry Award The poetry first prize is in part donated by the Banff Centre for the Arts, who will also award a jeweller-cast replica of poet Bliss Carman’s silver and turquoise ring to the first prize winner. (1-3 poems per entry, maximum 150 lines per entry), Judge: Christian Bök
Short Fiction (one story per entry, maximum 10,000 words), Judge: Joan Thomas
Creative Non-Fiction (one article per …
Prairie Fire Presents: Home Place: Writing From Around Manitoba
Home Place: Writing From Around Manitoba
Friday November 12, 7:00 pm
Grant Park in the Travel Alcove
This issue of Prairie Fire features the latest in the popular Home Place series, Home Place: Writing From Around Manitoba, which is being released to coincide with our province’s 140th anniversary. After publishing four issues in three years celebrating the writers of Winnipeg, for this one the decision was made to turn the spotlight on writers from other Manitoba communities. While some of them are old friends …
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