This is a favourite. To get you started, here are some ideas: The steps and ingredients to make an atomic bomb. The acqua alta phenomenon. Seismic sea waves. The splitting of light. Moon bows. Mirages. Summer Writing Prompts is...
Questions curated by Kyla Jamieson Photo credit Ming Kai Leung Doretta Lau is the author of the short story collection How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? (Nightwood Editions, 2014). The book was shortlisted for the City of...
We’re so excited to introduce you to our Jacob Zilber prize winners, whose pieces you can read in our Summer issue, 56.4. The characters in these stories transport a dead body along a bourbon-hued river in the Philippines, hunt for the perfect pig-feet in Seoul and come to understand their pasts in the woven strands of carpets. Let’s get to know the minds behind these complex worlds.
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Return to as needed. From my journal: Memphis Pistil/pistol Velvet Cross-stitching (and all the steps involved in the process) “Real love is a heart attack.” – Big Thief Raspberry farms Chests that smell like Coppertone Summer Writing Prompts is...
Read a sneak peak of Ben Ladouceur’s short story below and pick up your copy of our Summer issue, 56.4, for the rest!
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Repeat as needed. Summer Writing Prompts is a writing initiative by Claudia Wilde, a BFA student in the Creative Writing Program at UBC and creator of the feminist literary space, Daughters of Didion. Follow the walking volcano on Instagram: @clawdeeeeah.
As we wait for our summer issue 56.4 to arrive from the printer, we’d like to share a sneak peek from its pages. “How to Live” by Doretta Lau is forthcoming in the Summer issue 56.4 of PRISM, and...
Think spatially, sensually, texturally, and in colour. You may not include the titles of physical places. (This includes countries, cities, buildings, environments, etc.) Write, write, write! Summer Writing Prompts is a writing initiative by Claudia Wilde, a BFA student in...
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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