NEW ISSUE HERE: Check out our latest issue 56.4 SUMMER 2018!
Our newest issue 56.4 is finally out and full of beautiful content! Get your own issue now!
Continue reading NEW ISSUE HERE: Check out our latest issue 56.4 SUMMER 2018!
Our newest issue 56.4 is finally out and full of beautiful content! Get your own issue now!
Continue reading NEW ISSUE HERE: Check out our latest issue 56.4 SUMMER 2018!
We’re extremely excited to announce that the following stories have been shortlisted for the 2018 Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms!
Narrowing the longlist to just six was extremely hard, so many congratulations to the shortlisted writers.
Check back soon for the winners announcement, as chosen by our PRISM editorial board.
Interview and portrait by Mia Funk
“There is a clear-cut: old life, that’s old country, and here’s there’s new life, new country. It is an advantage. You are looking at life through an old pair of eyes and a new pair of eyes. And there’s always that ambivalence––Where do you belong? And how do you belong? And I do think these are advantages of immigrant writers or writers with two languages or who have two worlds.”
–YIYUN LI
We are happy to announce that our annual PRISM international Non-Fiction Contest is now open for submissions. We are absolutely delighted to introduce our judge from across the pond: Jonathan Kemp! Jonathan Kemp’s debut novel London Triptych (Myriad, 2010) was acclaimed...
Interview by Jessica Johns
Hello friends! Meet Casey Plett, author of Little Fish and A Safe Girl to Love and co-editor of the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. She is the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction and received an Honour of Distinction from The Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.
During my volunteer role at Room Magazine’s 2018 Growing Room Literary Festival, I had the great pleasure of hearing Casey read from Little Fish and getting to know her in-between events. In addition to admiring her work and discussion during the panels, Casey’s behind-the-scenes demeanor was something that has stayed with me. She offered a kind of warmth, humorous levity, and generosity to the volunteers and audience members that I think goes above and beyond the expectations of writers at events, especially during a time where authors and volunteers alike are stressed, exhausted, and usually running on fumes. It is something that usually flies under the radar to the comparatively large-scale attention given to readings and panels, but one I think is important. Yesterday, I started reading Little Fish. And already the humour, care, and depth that I saw during that weekend, I’m finding everywhere in her storytelling. If you get the opportunity, get this book and go hear her read. It’s so damn worth it.
Casey’s debut novel Little Fish is out now with Arsenal Pulp Press and you can find her on Twitter at @caseyplett and at her website, https://caseyplett.wordpress.com/.
Casey will be reading at the Vancouver Public Library for Incite: Celebrating Arsenal Pulp Press Amber Dawn, Casey Plett, and Joshua Whitehead on May 23 at 7:30 pm. Do not miss it!
Our newest issue 56.3 “Bad” is finally out and full of beautiful content! Get your own issue now! Contents THE PACIFIC SPIRIT POETRY PRIZE Judge’s essay: Aisha Sasha John – On the 2017 Pacific Spirit Prize Winning Poems Poetry Grand Prize Winner Ashley Hynd – First Communion (1992)...
PRISM international is excited and pleased to announce the call for submissions for our next themed issue 57.1: DREAMS
We are happy to announce that our 2nd Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms is now open for entry. $500 Grand Prize, $150 runner-up, $50 2nd runner-up. Max. word count: 300 words. Please submit only ONE piece per submission. Please...
Looking to prepare for your interview or brush up on some do’s and don’ts when interviewing? PRISM editorial assistant, Derrick Gravener, interviews poetry editor, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, to chat about the interview process. Shazia has interviewed authors such as André Alexis, Jonina Kirton, Thalia Field, and Jay Gamble, and shares steps for starting interviews as well as tried-and-true pro-tips.