Review by Mark Cutts Suite Française: Storm in June by Emmanuel Moynot David Homel, translation Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015 Emmanuel Moynot’s graphic novel Suite Française: Storm in June follows four sets of people as they flee Paris and the...
Review by Deborah Vail Wrist by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler Kegedonce Press, 2016 Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler is a writer and artist who works in many forms including audio, paint, film and glass. He is currently a candidate for...
Review by Stefanie Bartlett Straight to the Head by Fraser Nixon Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 Fraser Nixon’s Straight to the Head is a neo-noir that follows a cast of stylish, offbeat characters into the dirty underbelly of 1980’s Vancouver,...
Rachael Moorthy is an emerging Canadian writer and recent graduate of the University of Victoria, where she studied fiction, poetry, and screenwriting. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Young Writers of Canada and This Side of West, and...
We come to you with another offering from our pals at Going Down Swinging! One of Australia’s oldest and strangest literary publishers, Going Down Swinging was conceived in 1979. It now produces print anthologies, audio recordings, multimedia publications, live events and a very...
PRISM is please to present an excerpt our 2016 Short Fiction Contest winning piece, “You Can Do Better” by Taryn Pearcey. Taryn is a baker by day and a writer always. Her fiction has appeared in Maple Tree Literary...
Introduction by Chris Evans. PRISM 54.4 features the winners of our 2016 Short Fiction Contest, as chosen by contest judge, Lee Maracle—first place winner “You Can Do Better” by Taryn Pearcey, first runner-up “Montreal River” by Lesley Krueger, and...
Interviewed by Shaun Robinson. Kevin Shaw, the winner of our 2016 poetry contest, is a poet to watch. Besides winning Arc’s Poem of the Year contest last year, he has recent or forthcoming work in CV2 and Grain. He...
Written by Mariah Devcic. Maybe when you hear crows cawing, you’re transported back to the street you grew up on, walking home from school. Taking a shortcut down an alleyway filled with the smell of simmering onions, it could be...