No Good Asking by Fran Kimmel ECW Press Review by Colin Sterling Fran Kimmel’s latest novel No Good Asking is an unforgettable narrative that grips the reader right from its harrowing opening scene and doesn’t let go until it...
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
We received so many amazing pieces of writing for this year’s contest. We’re excited and honoured to announce the winners of this year’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, as selected by Jonathan Kemp! You can read all three pieces in our Winter issue 57.2, so be sure to pick up a copy!
Continue reading 2018 Creative Non-Fiction Contest- Winners Announced
We are incredibly delighted to announce the shortlist for our 2018 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Congratulations to all the writers on this list! We were deeply moved by your stories.
Continue reading 2018 Creative Non-Fiction Contest- Shortlist Announced!
We had so many wonderful submissions and would like to thank all writers who submitted to the the contest. We loved reading your work! Selecting just 16 pieces for the longlist was no easy task and as always all...
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
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.
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.
Continue reading Redefining Home: A Review of Chelene Knight’s Dear Current Occupant
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