HeldAnne MichaelsKnopf, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh Anne Michaels’s third novel, Held, is a dizzying marvel of both lyric beauty and structural vision. Equal parts secretive and sincere, Michaels’s latest is ever probing, seeking, as it discovers intimacies that...
PRISM is excited to share an excerpt from the powerful and imaginative essay, “Mad Fragmentations: Transmissions from the Lost Archives of Trans History” by KJ Cerankowski from our Fall 2023 issue: 62.1, available for purchase now. Mad Fragmentations: Transmissions...
Once Upon An Effing TimeBuffy CramDouglas & McIntyre, 2023 Review by Roz Milner There’s a line about the 1960s that says if you can remember it, you weren’t really there. But with that decade more than a half-century in...
We are excited to share Aaron Rabinowitz’s essay, “Young Bird.” This piece is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 CNF Contest. Judge Suzannah Showler had this to say about the piece: The winning essay, “Young Bird,” impressed me...
PRISM international is proud to announce the winning pieces from our 2023 Creative Nonfiction Contest along with Suzannah Showler’s judge’s essay. Suzannah Showler is the author of two collections of poetry and a book of cultural criticism about The...
PRISM international invites submissions for its upcoming HYBRIDS issue 62.3, edited by Dora Prieto and Natasha Gauthier. What is the joy of the hybrid gesture? Where does it live? And how does hybridizing create that secret third thing? We’re...
Based on an exercise by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich PRISM Prompts is a treasure chest full of muses, wonderings, and inspiration for both seasoned writers who are itching for a new approach to their craft and new writers who are looking...
Fire Cider RainRhiannon Ng Cheng HinCoach House Books, 2022 Review by Kim Trainor In Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s Fire Cider Rain, an armature of scientific terminology undergirds imagery that is fluid, languid, and meandering, like gauze or drifts of...
PRISM Prompts is a treasure chest full of muses, wonderings, and inspiration for both seasoned writers who are itching for a new approach to their craft and new writers who are looking for a place to get started, somewhere...