I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes From the End of the WorldKai Cheng ThomArsenal Pulp Press, 2019 Review by Jaz Papadopoulos When I first heard the phrase “A Trans Girl’s Notes From the End of the...
The Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize deadline is just around the corner! Kate Black caught up with Katherena Vermette, this year’s contest judge, to talk truth and poetry and what she’s looking for in a winning entry. Katherena is a...
PRISM international is proud to announce the winner of the 2019 Earle Birney Poetry Prize is Michelle Poirier Brown for her poem “Wake” published in issue 57.1: DREAMS, available now! Earle Birney established UBC’s MFA program in Creative Writing...
Photo of Anne Stone by Wayde ComptonPhoto of Wayde Compton by Anne Stone In anticipation of the release of our FIGURES issue (58.1), we’re thrilled to share an excerpt from “Antiquing in Vermont” by Anne Stone and Wayde Compton....
In 2018 I edited the interview collection What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Converstion (Nightwood Editions). In the process, I learned of all the ways an equal conversation between two poets, as opposed to a unidirectional interview,...
We’re so pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Creative Non-fiction Contest, as chosen by judge Sharan Dhaliwal. As Sharan writes, “with each of these submissions, we are taken on their journeys in a way that serves only...
Put Your Hand in Mine Elaine WooSignature Editions, 2019 Review by Kim Trainor Vancouver poet Elaine Woo’s first collection, Cycling with the Dragon (Nightwood Editions, 2014), had an often whimsical tone, but despite the poems that focussed on joy and...
And without further ado, here’s our shortlist for our annual Creative Non-fiction contest: Tabitha Siklos, “Half Scissor” Barbara Tran, “Peerless” Shelley Pacholok, “The Body Does not Flee” Rachel Lindley-Maycock, “And Begin” Jonathan Wei, “Dead Languages or The What” We’ll...
Reviews by Tasha Hefford Fool Muun Komming! When I fall in love with a thing, I fall hard. I fall completely. I am locked into the love with a magic oblivion. I can’t see what others perceive as weird,...