Review by Adrick Brock Russell Smith’s latest collection of short fiction, Confidence (Biblioasis, 2015), catalogues the lives of Toronto’s has-been hipsters as they navigate the disappointments of their middle ages. Coolness is the philosopher’s stone in Smith’s world, and...
This week’s Tuesday Prompt is a throwback to one by former Executive Editor, Promotions Clara Kumagai. Since you’re working hard on sending in your entries to our 2016 Short Fiction Contest before the January 15th deadline, I thought this...
Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with Victoria-turned-Vancouver-turned-Toronto poet, and former PRISM poetry editor (2009-2010), Elizabeth Ross, whose debut collection Kingdom was published in Spring 2015 by Palimpsest Press. — A Dying Wasp – Elizabeth Ross...
With only eight days left to submit to our 2016 Poetry Contest, we thought it would be appropriate to have this Thursday’s throwback be last year’s poetry contest winner. Phoebe Wang’s chapbook, Occasional Emergencies, was published with Toronto’s Odourless Press in Fall...
With PRISM international’s Poetry Contest nine days away, we thought we’d get Poetry Contest Judge Kayla Czaga to share her insights on poetry, but with a twist.* We’ve slotted in the word “poetry” into these questions posed to former pageant contestants. Click...
Need some extra motivation to get in your poetry entry for our 2016 Poetry Contest? Here’s a poetry writing prompt from 2012 Poetry Contest Judge Jen Currin. And when you’re finished, be sure to check out our contest here! Jen...