PRISM international is a quarterly magazine out of Vancouver, British Columbia, whose mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world.
Started in 1959, PRISM is the oldest literary magazine in Western Canada. Its archives are a Who’s Who of modern and contemporary literature. PRISM was first born of a group of Vancouver writers, based out of UBC’s Creative Writing department. At the time, it was the only Canadian literary magazine west of Toronto. Under its first editor, Jan de Bruyn, the magazine published new writers at the time such as Margaret Laurence, Alden Nowlan and George Bowering. Since its first volume, PRISM has published Margaret Atwood, Irving Layton, Robert Kroetsch, Jorge Luis Borges, Al Purdy, Evelyn Lau, Jack Hodgins, Daniel David Moses, Michael Ondaatje, Tennessee Williams, Gu Xiong, Leon Rooke, Nobel Prize winners Salvador Quasimodo, Vicente Aleixandre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Seamus Heaney and many more established and emerging writers from around the world.
Though best known for its fiction and poetry, PRISM does not neglect the other literary arts. Original drama and creative non-fiction are regular features. PRISM also encourages works of translation in all genres.
PRISM gratefully acknowledges the continued support of UBC’s Creative Writing department. PRISM editors are selected from UBC’s Creative Writing MFA program.
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EDITORS
Fiction Editor: Cara Woodruff
Poetry Editor: Jordan Abel
Executive Editor (Circulation and Promotion): andrea bennett
Executive Editor (Finance): Erin Flegg
MAILING ADDRESS:
PRISM international
Creative Writing Program, UBC
Buch. E462 – 1866 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1
Canada
Phone: 604-822-2514
Fax: 604-822-3616
