Review by Peter Takach

You are about to read a review of Thomas Trofimuk’s new novel. Perhaps you’ve seen This is All a Lie reclining against the shelf at your local bookstore, its stark white cover a breath of sanity amidst more lurid neighbours. Hesitantly, you ease it off the shelf, for you’ve been hurt before. Still, you remain optimistic that, somewhere past the bland bestsellers and the remainder bin, the perfect paperback awaits you.

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December 28, 2017 at 9:00 am Molly Cross-Blanchard read more

Featured Poem: “My Parents Don’t Know” by Jonathan Ball | PRISM 56.2

While we await the latest issue of PRISM international to return from the printer, our poetry editor, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, shares a poem from the forthcoming issue, 56.2. Read “My Parents Don’t Know” by Jonathan Ball, just in time for the intrigue and revelry of family reunions over the brief holidays.

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December 22, 2017 at 12:10 pm Poetry Editor read more

Cutting to the Core of Humanity: Steven Peters’ 59 Glass Bridges

59 Glass Bridges

Steven Peters

NeWest Press, 2017

Review by Deborah Vail

Steven Peters makes an impressive entrance into the world of speculative fiction with his debut novel, 59 Glass Bridges, which began as his thesis project while studying English at the University of Calgary. Inspired in part by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, the fifty-nine bridges in Peters’ hometown of Calgary, and his memories, this story is dark, evocative, and compelling.

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December 21, 2017 at 9:00 am Molly Cross-Blanchard read more

Best Books of 2017: Editors’ Picks

PRISM international editors had a difficult time choosing a few books they read and loved this year, but managed to whittle down two to three picks each: Jessica Johns, promotions editor, picks: This Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson It...

December 20, 2017 at 12:53 pm Poetry Editor read more

Between Us: The Stories We Keep 

Interview by Jasmine Sealy

Welcome back to Between Us, a conversation series that explores how we define Canadian immigrant literature, and how writers’ journeys to Canada shape their work. Here, writers discuss the tensions and freedoms that come with access to stories of home-place, and the many ways immigrant stories contribute to the Canadian cultural imaginary.

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December 17, 2017 at 4:23 pm Molly Cross-Blanchard read more

Between Us: The Work of the Heart

Interview by Emma Cleary Welcome back to Between Us, a conversation series that spotlights immigrant/first-gen Canadian writers. In this second installment, we focus on hyphenated Canadian identities—writers born in Canada whose families also have roots elsewhere—and consider how place...

December 14, 2017 at 10:00 am Molly Cross-Blanchard read more

Shimmer Like Oracles: A Conversation with Thalia Field

Thalia Field is from Chicago. She worked in theatre as a writer, director, and producer before beginning to write books. Thalia has lived and worked in Paris, Berlin, and New York, as well as spending many summers in Juneau,...

December 12, 2017 at 12:02 pm Poetry Editor read more

Nominations for the 2017 Pushcart Prize!

Our Poetry and Prose editors had a difficult time sifting through all this past year’s fantastic writing in search of our six nominees for The Pushcart Prize, but reminiscing about all of their favourite pieces was a bonus! Thank you to all the contributors who made the task both difficult and rewarding. Below is our list of nominations for the 2017 Pushcart Prize.

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December 6, 2017 at 10:00 am Molly Cross-Blanchard read more

Grand Prize Winner: “Girls” by Jill Talbot

Jill Talbot was the grand prize winner of our inaugural Grouse Ground Lit Prize for V Short Forms! Read her winning piece, “Girls,” and get it in print in our Liminal issue 56.1! Eliza here is obsessed with memes,...

December 5, 2017 at 9:00 am Molly Cross-Blanchard read more