You Know You Want This Kristen Roupenian Simon & Schuster Review by Justina Elias Kristen Roupenian’s short story “Cat Person” went viral in December 2017, two months after #MeToo had become a global phenomenon. Following a twenty-year-old woman through...
Photo credit: Zemekiss Photograpy Review by Issie Patterson Any reader well-acquainted with author John Irving’s love for the uncanny will be delighted with Pacific Theater’s simultaneously hilarious and moving adaptation of his seventh novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany. Adapted...
In a recent review of Catriona Wright’s new book in Streeters, Eric McMillan wrote: “With their mixture of offbeat personalities, horrid situations and entertaining writing, Difficult People contains some of the most engaging new stories I’ve read for quite...
We are so very honoured to announce the winners of the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize 2018. Please meet our wonderful winners as selected by judge Billy-Ray Belcourt. Read his judging essay in our upcoming issue 57.3 where you will also find the three winning poems. Please join us in congratulating all three poets!!
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Questions by Kyla Jamieson Photo by Dana Jansens Get to know writer Djamila Ibrahim, whose poems “Bloodletting” and “Brine” appear in our winter issue 57.2. If you don’t have the issue yet, have a sneak peak at “Bloodletting”, which we...
We are super excited to announced this year’s shortlist for the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize!! The decision was extremely hard and the quality of work was sensational. This is why we have 9 poems on the shortlist! Well done to all the authors!
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Written by Chee Brossy Photo by Jason S. Ordaz Issue 57.2 came out this week and to celebrate we’re sharing this Story Behind the Story for Chee Brossy’s excellent piece “Movin’ It”, including an excerpt from the story. Be sure to...
This year’s judging was not easy at all. In fact, it took us so long, because there were so many amazing entries. Our longlist is longer than ever, but we are so happy with every name on it!
Congratulations to all longlisted authors! What an achievement!
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We are so happy to announce our Winter issue 57.2!
Order your copy now!! Here is a full list of all contributors: