by Julia LoFasoArt by Danielle Friesen You’re a limb I can’t put weight on. Every time I test it, it still hurts. Is it progress that I’ve started to think of you as a sprained ankle? It’s much less...
Written by Özten Elaine Paul Artwork by Aileen Bahmanipour For nishiime, Erlen Brandon Özkanli, 2003—2018 You faced north as the dump truck filled your brother’s grave with dirt. They charged extra just to dig into the earth, frozen solid from...
Artwork by Syd Danger “powerade” by Ivanna Baranova to say i know some things in a way of saying i know many things to say i know many things in a way of saying fuck me and the...
grounding exercise by Samantha Nock inhale, 1 2 3 4. exhale, 1 2 3 4. close your eyes. name five things you can hear. you hear the cars going down nanaimo st. you hear cats meowing. you hear your...
In anticipations of PRISM’s DREAMS themed issue 57.1, here is some dreamy poetry from MA|DE, a collaborative writing partnership comprised of interdisciplinary artist Mark Laliberte, author of asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther 2017) and writer Jade Wallace, author of Rituals of Parsing (Anstruther 2018). MA|DE’s poem, “A Bad Dream Bent Ends Wet” appears in the print issue, and below are two more of their collaborative poems, “Make Me Down” and “Bone Meal” accompanied by artwork by the talented Aura. The DREAMS themed issue will be fresh from the printers soon, so if you don’t have a subscription to the magazine yet and need one, now is the time!
Written by Tessa Yang Our Dreams issue, 57.1, is going to land on your doorsteps any day now. Here, Tessa Yang tells us a bit about what inspired her story, “What Do You Dream?” We’ve included a sneak peak...
PRISM international is proud to announce the winner of the 2017 Earle Birney Poetry Prize is Lydia Kwa for her poem “Letter to My Former Selves” published in PRISM 56.1: Liminal, available now!
Earle Birney established UBC’s MFA program in Creative Writing in 1965–the first university program in Canada. The Earle Birney Poetry Prize, awarded annually and worth $500, is PRISM‘s only in-house prize. A very special thanks to Mme. Justice Wailan Low for her generous and ongoing support.
Continue reading “Letter to My Former Selves” by Lydia Kwa Wins the Earle Birney Poetry Prize
Read a sneak peak of Ben Ladouceur’s short story below and pick up your copy of our Summer issue, 56.4, for the rest!
Continue reading Story Behind the Story – “A Boy of Good Breeding”
Gregory Brown is the grand prize winner of our 2018 Grouse Ground Lit Prize for V. Short Forms! Read his winning piece, “Birdhouse,” and get it in print in our Dreams issue 57.1!