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“Carving it out sister (peace-sign emoji)” is, fittingly, a roller coaster ride and a half. The language weaves seamlessly between high and low, pausing to linger on an image, and then taking off at breakneck speed again. It’s a...
Photo by David Mandville Get to know Carmella Gray-Cosgrove, whose story “The Dance of the Cygnets” appears in our SPRAWL issue (58.3). Symbiotic relationships are at the core of this piece of short fiction, in which the narrator transits...
In a recent review of Catriona Wright’s new book in Streeters, Eric McMillan wrote: “With their mixture of offbeat personalities, horrid situations and entertaining writing, Difficult People contains some of the most engaging new stories I’ve read for quite...
MA|DE is a collaborative writing partnership comprised of interdisciplinary artist Mark Laliberte, author of asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther 2017) and writer Jade Wallace, author of Rituals of Parsing (Anstruther 2018). MA|DE is based in Toronto, Ontario, and are currently working on their first full-length collection of poetry. You can find MA|DE online at ma-de.ca, as well as their poetry on our website, and in the latest issue of DREAMS 57.1.
Continue reading Issue 57.1 Teaser: Behind MA|DE
Kamloopa is an Indigenous artistic ceremony that follows two urban Indigenous sisters, Kilawna and Mikaya, and their new friend, Edith, as they struggle in their own ways to understand themselves and their cultures. As they each come to terms with what it means to reconnect with their homelands, ancestors, and one another, it becomes clear that this story is not a hero’s journey; it doesn’t follow the “typical” three act play in structure or story arc. The artistic ceremony focusses on kinship relations, rather than a central conflict: this is a journey between women, a journey that happens within, between, and outside of themselves. It’s a journey that happens on Indian time: existing now, bringing the past, and holding the future. As the three women move through the world, they face issues of assimilation, disconnection, and loss, and the audience is witness to every ignorant, painful, funny, and awkward moment of what it means to find your way home again.
Continue reading Indigenizing Theatre: An interview with Kamloopa Fire Creator Kim Senklip Harvey
Former PRISM poetry editor Rob Taylor sat down with Amanda Jernigan to discuss her recently released third poetry collection, Years, Months, and Days (Biblioasis, 2018), a book whose content was inspired by a nearly 200-year-old Mennonite hymnal, Die Gemeinschaftliche Liedersammlung....
Interview by Jasmine Sealy
Photo by Olivier Barjolle
Last month I attended a free, hilarious, thoughtful, well-organized literary event at The Lido in Vancouver. I got there an hour early and the place was already almost packed, by showtime, people were being turned away at the door. The event was fine., an evening of “storytelling and otherwise”–a magical combination of stand-up, poetry, storytelling and music. The result is a show as unique and quirky as its creator and host, local writer Cole Nowicki. Here we chat to Cole about how fine. came to be and about the future of the show. Continue reading An interview with Cole Nowicki, the creator and host of fine.
Interview by Jennifer Amos Photo Credit Richard Lautens, Toronto Star Joe Fiorito recently launched his first collection of poetry, City Poems. His ability to zero in on the heart of a story and his compassion are some of the hallmarks of his fiction and non-fiction writing, which continue to shine...