Illustration by Nadia Bormotova Get to know writer Senaa Ahmad, whose story “The Women, Before and After” closes our FIGURES issue. Ahmad activates familiar technology to weave generations of women’s voices—distinct, urgent, desirous, and alive—into the narrative. Be sure...
Summer issue cover image: “Other Other” by Gio Swaby We are delighted to introduce you to our Jacob Zilber prize winners. Two of these pieces appear in our Summer issue, 57.4, while you can read “Toy Wonderland,” by Jenessa...
Questions by Kyla Jamieson Photo by Maki Fotos Get to know poet, photographer, and all-around badass Tenille K Campbell, whose poem “medicine songs” appears in our Ruin themed issue 57.3 , and whose poem “question” appeared on our website...
Photo by Matthew Narea Questions by Kyla Jamieson Get to know writer Natasha Ramoutar, whose story “Where We Keep the Bodies” is published in our latest issue! Make sure to pick up a copy and consider subscribing to PRISM, so...
Questions by Kyla Jamieson What’s happening around you—either right around you or outside of where you are? My front gate just slammed shut. A kid is yelling. A baby cries in the apartment across the courtyard from me. It’s...
Questions by Kyla Jamieson
Photo by Alannah Sawatsky
Get to know writer, PhD candidate and creative organizer Sanchari Sur, whose story, “The Lady and the Beard,” appears in our Dreams issue, 57.1.
Continue reading Issue 57.1 Teaser: Get to Know Sanchari Sur
Questions curated by Kyla Jamieson Photo credit Ming Kai Leung Doretta Lau is the author of the short story collection How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? (Nightwood Editions, 2014). The book was shortlisted for the City of...
We’re so excited to introduce you to our Jacob Zilber prize winners, whose pieces you can read in our Summer issue, 56.4. The characters in these stories transport a dead body along a bourbon-hued river in the Philippines, hunt for the perfect pig-feet in Seoul and come to understand their pasts in the woven strands of carpets. Let’s get to know the minds behind these complex worlds.
Continue reading Get to Know: Our Jacob Zilber Prize Winners
Interview by Jessica Johns
Hello friends! Meet Casey Plett, author of Little Fish and A Safe Girl to Love and co-editor of the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. She is the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction and received an Honour of Distinction from The Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.
During my volunteer role at Room Magazine’s 2018 Growing Room Literary Festival, I had the great pleasure of hearing Casey read from Little Fish and getting to know her in-between events. In addition to admiring her work and discussion during the panels, Casey’s behind-the-scenes demeanor was something that has stayed with me. She offered a kind of warmth, humorous levity, and generosity to the volunteers and audience members that I think goes above and beyond the expectations of writers at events, especially during a time where authors and volunteers alike are stressed, exhausted, and usually running on fumes. It is something that usually flies under the radar to the comparatively large-scale attention given to readings and panels, but one I think is important. Yesterday, I started reading Little Fish. And already the humour, care, and depth that I saw during that weekend, I’m finding everywhere in her storytelling. If you get the opportunity, get this book and go hear her read. It’s so damn worth it.
Casey’s debut novel Little Fish is out now with Arsenal Pulp Press and you can find her on Twitter at @caseyplett and at her website, https://caseyplett.wordpress.com/.
Casey will be reading at the Vancouver Public Library for Incite: Celebrating Arsenal Pulp Press Amber Dawn, Casey Plett, and Joshua Whitehead on May 23 at 7:30 pm. Do not miss it!