Trees are blooming, birds are singing and the new editorial team for PRISM international has arrived! We will miss our departing editors and would like to thank Kyla, Selina and Shazia for doing such an amazing job! Jessica has...
Our newest issue 56.3 “Bad” is finally out and full of beautiful content! Get your own issue now! Contents THE PACIFIC SPIRIT POETRY PRIZE Judge’s essay: Aisha Sasha John – On the 2017 Pacific Spirit Prize Winning Poems Poetry Grand Prize Winner Ashley Hynd – First Communion (1992)...
Interview by Molly Cross-Blanchard, questions by Kyla Jamieson Samantha is a Cree/Métis writer and poet from Northeastern BC. Her family originally comes from Ile-a-la-Crosse (Sakitawak), Saskatchewan. She has been published in Red Rising Magazine, Shameless Magazine, SAD Mag, GUTs Magazine, and others....
Interview by Kyla Jamieson
Emerging writer Marc Perez’s story “Dog Food” appears in our “BAD” issue. Of his story, Perez says, “I once had a dog, and I named her Bruce. The story is a lament for her.” For this issue, we sought work that took us to true places along difficult or unexpected paths; “Dog Food” is one such story. In it, a boy witnesses violence he’s helpless against, and is denied understanding in the aftermath. His pain is real, but nobody sees or acknowledges it; where can it go but forwards, into his future?
Marc Perez immigrated to Canada from the Philippines and now lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Perez has been working in the nonprofit industry for the past five years; in addition to this work he is currently participating in Writing Lives, a project in which writers collaborate with Holocaust survivors to write their memoirs. Read on for Perez’s thoughts on identity and home, privilege and marginalization, and the best time to write—while asleep and dreaming.