Rebecca Salazar is a PhD candidate and Vanier scholar at UNB. Her first poetry chapbook is Guzzle (Anstruther), and other writings have appeared in The Malahat Review, Lemon Hound, and Partisan. She edits for Qwerty, The Fiddlehead, and icehouse...
Interview by Shazia Hafiz Ramji Jay Gamble is a poet, academic, and author of the long poem, Book of Knots, recently published by BookThug. The publisher says that Gamble’s poems “seek to engage with life’s failure, by building ‘a...
We’ve had the honour of publishing so many outstanding pieces of writing in the past year. We’re pleased to announce that the following authors and their pieces from recent issues of PRISM have been forwarded to the National Magazine Awards competition. (Essays)...
Interview by A. Niamh Higgins Laura Farina always seems to be in the right place at the right time. The Ottawa-born poet, now based in Vancouver, published her first collection, This Woman Alphabetical (49th Shelf, 2005), at age twenty-four—the kind...
Order a copy now! Contents Rachel Rose – Fine Pieces, Finely Wrought (Judge’s Essay) Non-Fiction Grand Prize Winner Krista Foss – Choosing Your Poison Non-Fiction Runners-Up Richard Kelly Kemick – States of Mind Olivia Walton – Lineage Fiction...
Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize judge Tim Bowling to discuss his twelfth poetry collection “The Duende of Tetherball“. Coyote – Tim Bowling Shoved its head heraldic through the autumn foliage fifty...
We are delighted to announce that the following three poems have been chosen as our winners by Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke! Congratulations to the three winning poets, to everyone who made our short and long lists, and...
Congratulations to the following six poets named to the shortlist of the first Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize! We will announce the winners soon, as chosen by Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke. “Remains” by Heather Fraser – Victoria, BC...
We’re so pleased to announce that the following twelve poems by ten poets have been longlisted for the first-ever Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. We received an overwhelming number of powerful entries from across the world and would like to...