Our shortest-form contest is now open for submissions until May 1st! The Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms is judged by PRISM’s editorial board. We’re ready to sink our teeth into your flash fiction, micro-memoir, poetic hybrids...
Eat A PeachDavid ChangClarkson Potter/Publishers 2020 Review by Caileigh Broatch David Chang wears a lot of hats, the first of which is a chef’s hat. He is, after all, the founder of the Momofuku Restaurant Group (with a new...
Photo Credit: Etye SarnerReview by Janice Weizman We all have a fascination with the paradox of genius; on one hand, individuals touched by extraordinary gifts have, by definition, access to realms and abilities that are out of reach to...
on/meFrancine CunninghamCaitlin Press, 2019 Review by Kim Trainor Let’s start with the title: on/me. Every poem in the collection has two titles: a main title that suggests a general category (On Grief, On Love, On Identity, On Mental Health)...
Interview by Uche Umezurike Saddiq Dzukogi’s upcoming collection of poetry, Your Crib, My Qibla (to be released by University of Nebraska Press on March 1, 2021), proceeds the death of his daughter, Baha, who died on December 12, 2017––twenty-one days...
SevenFarzana DoctorDundurn Toronto, 2020 Review by Kiran Bhat The number seven is a number of great meaning in many religions, particularly the Abrahamic ones. The day of rest after creation was the seventh; the number of heavens, or afterworlds,...
Interview by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Peter Midgley’s latest collection, let us not think of them as barbarians (NeWest Press, 2019), is a “sensual and intimate” exploration and reconfiguration of Namibia’s history, philosophy, and relationship to the present. It was...
Written by Jaminnia R. States “Meditations on My Face” was the first runner-up in PRISM’s 2020 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Alexander Chee. To read the other winning essays, pick up a copy of Issue 59.2 from our online...
Photo Credit: Una RoulstonReview by A.N. Higgins Emma Donoghue is the author of eleven novels for adults––including Room, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize––two novels for children, and five short story collections, as well as various plays, screenplays,...