Daddy LessonsSteacy EastonCoach House Press, 2023 Review by Roz Milner Growing up queer in the Canadian prairies can be hard enough, but for someone who’s neurodivergent, it can be almost impossible to imagine. How does one navigate lines of...
PRISM is thrilled to share the winning piece of the 2022 Wreck Beach Prize for Prose. Here is Ronaldo Acuna’s story, “Fathers” published in Issue 60.2. FathersRonaldo Acuna When you were in school studying to become a counsellor, you...
This Time, That PlaceClark BlaiseBiblioasis, 2022 Review by Brandon Fick Who is Clark Blaise? Even some of the biggest literary aficionados may not be able to answer that question, yet This Time, That Place: Selected Stories goes a long...
Her Body Among AnimalsPaola FerranteBook*hug Press, 2023 Review by Deborah Vail “… Kitty was less afraid of the man attacking her than of the people attacking her for being whatshe was, a woman who worked in a bar coming...
The BrickworksLucy E.M. Black Now or Never Publishing, 2023 Review by Hollay Ghadery The challenge with writing historical fiction is not just taking the past and bringing it to life, but making it immediate. As immediate as the page in...
PRISM is thrilled to share the powerful poem, “Winning” by Kayla Czaga from our Summer 2023 issue: 61.4, available for purchase now. “Winning” explores the meaning of the word through stunning vignettes of a man’s life as seen from...
Photo Credit: Angela GordonInterview by Marion Lougheed Michelle Sinclair is a former human rights policy analyst who loves animals and all things nature. Her first novel, Almost Visible (Baraka Books, 2022), won The Miramichi Reader Award for Best Fiction....
Tansi/Hello, We thank you for finding and creating space with us here today. These voices reflect some of the diversity and vibrance of the Indigenous community, and we hope that you’ll take some time to breathe deeply, connect with...
South Babak LakghomiDundurn Press, 2023 Review by Simon Lowe Babak Lakghomi’s sharp-edged, jewel-like novel, South, cuts as cleanly as it sparkles. A minimalist, literary dystopia recalling the sparse, unexplained mysteries of JG Ballard’s early catastrophe novels, South charts the hallucinatory...