PRISM is proud to announce the winning pieces from our 2022 Jacob Zilber Prize along with Heather O’Neill’s judge’s essay. Heather O’Neill is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She is the writer of favourites like Lullabies for Little...
Here are the shortlisted stories from The Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest judged by Heather O’Neill. We’re one step closer to naming our winners! Congratulations to our finalists and thanks to all who submitted. The Grouse Grind...
Interview by Leslie Palleson Katherine Fawcett is the author of two collections of short stories, Little Washer of Sorrows (Thistledown Press, 2015), shortlisted for the ReLit Short Fiction Award and for a Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature...
Stoop CityKristyn DunnionBiblioasis, 2020 Review by Chantelle Cho “It’s like last winter when she took that girl Lena on a road trip and left me to finish my thesis in the sub-zero gloom.” This is how the first story...
Eat A PeachDavid ChangClarkson Potter/Publishers 2020 Review by Caileigh Broatch David Chang wears a lot of hats, the first of which is a chef’s hat. He is, after all, the founder of the Momofuku Restaurant Group (with a new...
Photo Credit: Etye SarnerReview by Janice Weizman We all have a fascination with the paradox of genius; on one hand, individuals touched by extraordinary gifts have, by definition, access to realms and abilities that are out of reach to...
on/meFrancine CunninghamCaitlin Press, 2019 Review by Kim Trainor Let’s start with the title: on/me. Every poem in the collection has two titles: a main title that suggests a general category (On Grief, On Love, On Identity, On Mental Health)...
Interview by Uche Umezurike Saddiq Dzukogi’s upcoming collection of poetry, Your Crib, My Qibla (to be released by University of Nebraska Press on March 1, 2021), proceeds the death of his daughter, Baha, who died on December 12, 2017––twenty-one days...
SevenFarzana DoctorDundurn Toronto, 2020 Review by Kiran Bhat The number seven is a number of great meaning in many religions, particularly the Abrahamic ones. The day of rest after creation was the seventh; the number of heavens, or afterworlds,...