Antonyms for DaughterJenny BoychukVéhicule Press, 2021 Review by Stella Cali Antonyms for Daughter, Jenny Boychuk’s unflinching debut collection, explores Boychuk’s mother’s addiction and the author’s complex grief after her mother’s death. Like the seasons, this debut collection changes, decays,...
The latest issue from PRISM features work from Vinh Nguyen, Kelly Pedro, Robert McGill, Dylan Fisher, Candice May, Alison Stevenson, Jeremy Colangelo, Anne Baldo, Sage Ravenwood, Glenn Shaheen, Pauline Peters, Sarah Yi Mei Tsiang, Katie Martí, Saya Watanabe, Ruby...
You Better Be LightningAndrea GibsonButton Press Poetry, 2021 Review by Cynthia Sharp You Better Be Lightning from Button Press Poetry, an independent publisher of performance art, is Andrea Gibson’s eighth overall book in a collection that spans full-length individual...
Photo credit: Leah Jing McIntosh Interview by Alexa Margorian Grief is a well-trodden topic in literature; it is not often that a writer is able to breathe new life into such a universal theme. However, in her debut novel New...
PRISM is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 GG Lit Prize for V. Short Forms. Please join us in congratulating these fantastic writers! Grand Prize“How to Lick the Tongue of Black Ice” by Destiny Pitters ….. Runner-Up“Lichtenberg...
Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in VerseSholeh WolpéUniversity of Arkansas Press, 2022 Review by Elmaz Abinader Loss rumbles through one’s life—reverberates in every stage of our growth. We lose innocence, lose country, lose time, lose parts of ourselves; lose...
A selection of writers who have contributed to PRISM international will share their work in a live, in-person reading. There will be a brief intermission in which those who want to participate in a trivia contest about the Vancouver...
We are excited to announce that our annual PRISM international Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize is now open for submissions. We are so honoured to have the amazing judge Grace Lau. Grace is a settler living in Ontario on the traditional...