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“Like a chorus of girls singing a camp anthem across a deep, black lake”– A Review of Kim Fu’s The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

Review of The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu

Review by Katie Zdybel

In the opening pages of Kim Fu’s sophomore novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, a newly-arrived flock of pre-teen girls gather ceremoniously on the dock to sing the camp anthem: “And I shall love my sisters/for-eve-er-more.” Continue reading “Like a chorus of girls singing a camp anthem across a deep, black lake”– A Review of Kim Fu’s The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

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Power of the Powwow: A Review of Tommy Orange’s There There

Review of There There by Tommy Orange

Review by Cody Caetano

No need to worry if you haven’t read the dust jacket, because I got the unblinking one sentence pitch of Cheyenne writer Tommy Orange’s There There to hitch the most disinterested readers: twelve exhausted Native folks reeling from one cross-cultural massacre come home to powwow at the Big Oakland Powwow, inside a big metal dome. Continue reading Power of the Powwow: A Review of Tommy Orange’s There There

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Announcing the Shortlist for the 2018 Grouse Grind Literary Prize for V. Short Forms!

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.

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Redefining Home: A Review of Chelene Knight’s Dear Current Occupant

Dear Current Occupant 

Chelene Knight

BookThug

Review by Mormei Zanke

Chelene Knight’s new memoir Dear Current Occupant, defies traditional genres of writing through its inherent hybridity and fragmentation. The book delves into Knight’s childhood past, exploring her experience of growing up while moving in and out of twenty homes in East Vancouver. Knight weaves poetry, essays, letters, and photographs together to create a work that is halting and profoundly moving. Knight’s fragmented approach succeeds in exploring the truths of her past more than any conventional, linear method could.

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Magnified and Shrunk: A Review of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies

Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books

Review by Claudia Wilde

Lauren Groff’s novel, Fates and Furies, is the first novel I was compelled to finish based almost solely off my fondness for the language. Never mind the story. (Which, by the way, is brilliant in its own right. I will get to this shortly.) Groff’s prose reads like poetry and the diction is precise, sticking to the tongue when spoken aloud: Continue reading Magnified and Shrunk: A Review of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies

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