PRISM international is proud to announce the winning pieces from our Creative NonFiction Contest along with Suzannah Showler’s judge’s essay. Winner: “Young Bird” by Aaron Rabinowitz Runner Up: “The Idioms of Mother Hens” by Britt Gillman Second Runner-Up: “Legacy” by...
PRISM international is proud to share the work of our three winners! First Place “No One Tells You Outright Grandma is an Asshole” by Erin MacNair People don’t tell kids the truth. They say things like sex and drugs...
We are excited to share Emory Brinson’s poem, “poem with resonance.” This piece is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize and is included in our Spring 2023 issue: 61.3, available for purchase now. Brinson’s...
Thursday, January 19 @6:00pm – 8:00pm nə́c̓aʔmat ct Strathcona Branch, 730 East Hastings St.Vancouver V6A 1R5 Register and find out more here on the Biblio Commons Event Page. Description Workshop attendees will experiment with four different poetic forms. The forms will...
We’ve extended the deadline for the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Contest judged by Ivan Coyote. Need a little more time and incentive to put the finishing touches on that piece of CNF you’ve been working on? You’ve got a bit...
60.3 is live! The latest issue from PRISM features work from Tammy Armstrong, Farah Ghafoor, Courtney Bates-Hardy, Matthew Pitt, Noel Cheruto, Suphil Lee Park, Meaghan Rondeau, Yaissa Jiménez Trans. Emily Hunsberger, Kyle Gervais, Rachel Deutsch, Sandra Tsz Ching Lau,...
What have you been haunted by? What echoes are in your midst? Spirits aren’t just apparitions that linger in empty hallways and portraits. They are the songs from your childhood you still know all the words to, the figures...
If It Wasn’t for the Nights I have buried my father every night for the last fifty-seven days, every night since he died, and I couldn’t fly home for his funeral. When I fall asleep, I see myself standing...
Shifting Baselines The term shifting baselines describes slow, almost imperceptible changes in an ecosystem…Our faulty memories and relatively short lifespans have made us unreliable witnesses. – Kyo Maclear, “Birds, Art, Life” 12:47 a.m. The bedroom seemed darker than usual....