Photo by Michele ComeauInterview by Chimedum Ohaegbu Zalika Reid-Benta’s collection, Frying Plantain (House of Anansi Press 2019), is her splash-making debut, already garnering a spot on the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The collection consists of twelve linked stories about...
Photo by Brigitte LacombeInterview by Chimedum Ohaegbu Mona Awad’s highly anticipated second book, Bunny (Viking, 2019), is a campus novel dipped in malice and wonder. The novel follows lonely MFA student Samantha Heather Mackey, who desperately longs for the...
Photo by Emily CooperInterview by Tania De Rozario I first met Ivan Coyote in 2018 while they were a writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University’s English department. A seasoned performer and author of twelve books, Coyote’s latest collection, Rebent Sinner...
Interview by Molly Cross-Blanchard When the PRISM team first began to discuss integrating artwork into the print issue, Danielle Friesen’s name was one of the first to come up. Her ink drawings are simple and dynamic, muscular and feminine,...
Photo of Anne Stone by Wayde ComptonPhoto of Wayde Compton by Anne Stone In anticipation of the release of our FIGURES issue (58.1), we’re thrilled to share an excerpt from “Antiquing in Vermont” by Anne Stone and Wayde Compton....
In 2018 I edited the interview collection What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Converstion (Nightwood Editions). In the process, I learned of all the ways an equal conversation between two poets, as opposed to a unidirectional interview,...
Interview by Tara McGuire Peter Orner’s new collection Maggie Brown & Others (Little, Brown and Company, 2019) was released in early July. The New York Times calls Orner “A master of his form.” Tara McGuire spoke with Peter Orner...
Questions by Cara Nelissen What follows below is an interview with the author Paul Zits, in which he talks the writing process and inspiration for his latest book Exhibit (University of Calgary Press, 2019), as well a poem from...
Questions by Cara Nelissen PRISM got to chat with Lucas Crawford, author of The High Line Scavenger Hunt (University of Calgary Press, 2018), about the writing and research process, the complexities of the High Line park, and the role...