Bad Ideas Missy Marston ECW Press, 2019 Review by Kris Rothstein Missy Marston’s novel Bad Ideas oozes the atmosphere evocative of life in a small rust belt town in the 1970s. Trudy lives with her mother Claire and four-year-old...
Little Girls Nicholas Aflleje, Sarah DeLaine, Ashley Lanni-Hoye & Adam Wollet Image Comics, 2019 Review by Nikki Holmes Little Girls is a standalone horror graphic novel from the creative team of Nicholas Aflleje (writer), Sarah DeLaine (illustrator), Ashley Lanni-Hoye (colourist), and...
The following is an excerpt from Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas Ricky’s dog Chaos was as big as a lion and as dumb as a turkey. She was a black Russian terrier, taller while on all fours than any of...
Severance Ling Ma Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Émilie Kneifel Brand names, and so many other unchosen memories, litter Ling Ma’s apocalypse in her debut novel, Severance. Their fluorescent logos—the seven, the eleven, that NY-loving heart—the epitome of...
From left to right: LJ Weisberg, Sussan Yanez, Emma Field, and Salena Wiener. Interview by Isabella Wang This is the second instalment of Isabella Wang’s conversation with young emerging writers. Check out the first part, in which young writers...
Photo by Sasha Aleshchenko Review by Issie Patterson It is not rare to go see a production put on by emerging young talent and immediately realize that some of these performers are destined for great success. This is the...
From left to right: Mikayla Ruppe, Natalie Lim, Chimedum Ohaegbu and Stephanie Chang Interview by Isabella Wang As a young writer, there is nothing I love more than being out there in the community. Sometimes, that community is built...
Interview by Muniyra Douglas In this interview, PRISM speaks with Ugandan author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi about her novel Kintu, her new short story collection, teaching, and the writing process. You’re a Creative Writing lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. How does being...
Photo by Alexa Jane Battler Interview by Natasha Ramoutar Adrian De Leon seems to have come out of nowhere. With only a handful of literary journal publications to his name and no blurbs on the back of his book...