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...
With only a little over two weeks left to submit to PRISM international’s 2016 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, we touched base with contest judge Rachel Rose to hear more about what she’s looking for in a winning submission as well...
Interview by Robert Shaw Daniel Perry’s debut short fiction collection, Hamburger (Thistledown Press) was released this spring. With its impressive ability to seamlessly move between flash and prose pieces, the collection explores both the humour and poignancy of contemporary...
Photo Credit: Owen Leong Interview by Christopher Evans Tom Cho’s current project is a novel with the working title The Meaning of Life and Other Fictions. His full-length debut was Look Who’s Morphing, a collection of fictions released by...
Interview by Matthew Walsh Amber McMillan’s recent collection of poetry, We Can’t Ever Do This Again was released with Wolsak and Wynn last year. Split into three sections, the poems cover a lot of emotional ground. It’s easy to...
Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with Andy McGuire to discuss his debut poetry collection “Country Club“. Zero Experience – Andy McGuire The Agency tells us the world is our oyster. They say optimism is an...
Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with Vancouver poet Elee Kraljii Gardiner to discuss her debut poetry collection “serpentine loop“. A “serpentine loop” is a figure which skaters etch in the ice with their blades, and it serves as...
Interview by Matthew Walsh Erín Moure’s latest project, Kapusta, was released by House of Anansi Press in 2015. It follows the character, E., in what is described as a “play-poem ash, a cabaret,” placing E. in the smallest of places,...
If you haven’t picked up the latest issue of PRISM international and need another reason to, here’s an interview by Poetry Editor Dominique Bernier-Cormier in conversation with contributor Jacob McArthur Mooney. Mooney is is the editor of The Best Canadian Poetry...