The Collected Schizophrenias Esmé Weijun Wang Graywolf Press Review by Margeaux Feldman Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays begins with a proclamation: “Schizophrenia terrifies.” For Wang, who was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, the most terrifying thing...
Written by Özten Elaine Paul Artwork by Aileen Bahmanipour For nishiime, Erlen Brandon Özkanli, 2003—2018 You faced north as the dump truck filled your brother’s grave with dirt. They charged extra just to dig into the earth, frozen solid from...
Questions by Kyla Jamieson Photo by Maki Fotos Get to know poet, photographer, and all-around badass Tenille K Campbell, whose poem “medicine songs” appears in our Ruin themed issue 57.3 , and whose poem “question” appeared on our website...
Photo by Rashid Zakat Written by Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela To celebrate the release of our latest issue, RUIN (57.3), we’re sharing the Story Behind the Story for Slovenly Wilderness by Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela, including an excerpt from the story. Make sure to...
Photo by Jake Gard on Unsplash In anticipation of PRISM’s Ruin themed issue 57.3, we’re so excited to share some exclusive content by one of our amazing contributing poets, Tenille K Campbell. More of Tenille’s work can be found...
Photo by Matthew Narea Questions by Kyla Jamieson Get to know writer Natasha Ramoutar, whose story “Where We Keep the Bodies” is published in our latest issue! Make sure to pick up a copy and consider subscribing to PRISM, so...
Gingerbread Helen Oyeyemi Penguin Random House, 2019 Review by Will Preston There is a peculiar feeling, I believe, common to travellers in a foreign place. It arrives sometime after the initial jolt of finding yourself in a sea of...
Shapeshifters Estlin McPhee Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2018 Review by Andrew W. French In a poem aptly titled “Poetry,” Louis Dudek writes that the task of the poet is to “find a voice, / lost in the clutter and noise...
Aurora Borealice Joan Steacy Conundrum Press, 2019 Review by Kris Rothstein Aurora Borealice, described as an “autobio/graphic novel”—a very light fictionalization of the author’s life—is the story of Alice, an irreverent underachiever from a working class family that runs...