Photo credit: Leah Jing McIntosh Interview by Alexa Margorian Grief is a well-trodden topic in literature; it is not often that a writer is able to breathe new life into such a universal theme. However, in her debut novel New...
Interview by Daryl Sneath Portrayal—if we take the word at its origin, to draw or to paint, to depict in words—may well be the aim of any novelist. Few have mastered portrayal the way Heather O’Neill has. In O’Neill’s novels,...
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Interview by Diane Gottlieb “If You Think the Way to Learn,” the first poem in Ana Maria Spagna’s Mile Marker Six, takes us right to the heart of this collection: it moves from Spagna’s past to her present, from...
Interview by Diane Gottlieb Nick Olson, founder and editor in chief of the literary journal (mac)ro(mic), has a new book out, The Brother We Share—an innovative, alternate personal history, based on a true event: Olson’s 2016 suicide attempt, which...
Interview by Emily ChouTranslation to English of Alex Simões’ responses by Carolyne Wright PRISM’s Emily Chou sits down to speak with Alex Simões and Carolyne Wright about Alex’s poem “Cemetery of the New Blacks,” translated by Carolyne and published...
Photo credit: Andrew BattershillInterview by Emma Cleary I am so grateful to Suzannah Showler for making time to talk with me about “Most Nights,” winner of our Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms, published in our WONDER issue...
Interview by Uche Umezurike Questions of displacement and diaspora haunt Brandon Wint’s poetry. In Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020), Wint traverses the watery routes of memory to unearth the various ways that the spectres of history haunt modernity....
Interview by Uche Umezurike Yejide Kilanko’s new novel A Good Name (Guernica Editions, 2021) explores the complexities of relationships, traditions, and masculinities. Uche Umezurike sits down with the author to discuss the process behind her work. Uche Umezurike: A...