“Calgary” by Jon Flieger – 2nd Runner-Up of the Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms 2018
Jon Flieger is the second runner up of our 2018 Grouse Ground Lit Prize for V. Short Forms! Read his piece, “Calgary” below!
“Melt” by Spencer Oakes- 1st Runner-Up of the Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms 2018
Spencer Oakes is the first runner up of our 2018 Grouse Ground Lit Prize for V. Short Forms! Read his piece, “Melt,” and get it in print in our Dreams issue 57.1!
56.4 Sneak Peek: How to Live by Doretta Lau
As we wait for our summer issue 56.4 to arrive from the printer, we’d like to share a sneak peek from its pages. “How to Live” by Doretta Lau is forthcoming in the Summer issue 56.4 of PRISM, and...
Featured Poem: “Ball Twins” by Billeh Nickerson | PRISM 56.3: “BAD”
While we await the “BAD”-themed issue of PRISM international to return from the printer, our poetry editor, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, shares a poem from the forthcoming issue, 56.3. Read “Ball Twins” by Billeh Nickerson, just in time for that perplexing and funny time of the month: National Poetry Month.
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The Story Behind The Story: The Decedent by Yuly Restrepo Garcés
Our winter issue will be arriving soon, and includes a story by Yuly Restrepo Garcés, a writer and professor at the University of Tampa. A MacDowell Fellow, Yuly is also the recipient of a VONA/Voices Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in Zone 3 and is forthcoming in Natural Bridge. Of her story, “The Decedent,” Yuly says:
I started to write “The Decedent” in May 2015, at the Ft. Lauderdale airport, during a seven-hour layover, though I had been thinking about it for at least a year before that. I wrote about twelve pages while I waited for my flight to Medellín, where I would spend the summer months visiting family and working on a rough draft of my novel-in-progress. The story itself is a convergence of several things I had been preoccupied with in the months before I started writing.
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Featured Poem: “My Parents Don’t Know” by Jonathan Ball | PRISM 56.2
While we await the latest issue of PRISM international to return from the printer, our poetry editor, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, shares a poem from the forthcoming issue, 56.2. Read “My Parents Don’t Know” by Jonathan Ball, just in time for the intrigue and revelry of family reunions over the brief holidays.
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Our Inherent Creatureness: An Excerpt and Interview from Hiromi Goto
PRISM is pleased to present an excerpt from “And the Moon Spun Round Like a Top” by Hiromi Goto, upcoming in Issue 55.3. Hiromi gratefully acknowledges funding from the Canada Council for the Arts which supported the writing of...
Partiality, Celebrated: An excerpt and Interview from PRISM’s 2016 Creative Non-Fiction Contest winner, Krista Foss
PRISM is proud to present an excerpt from our 2016 Creative Non-Fiction Contest winning piece, “Choosing Your Poison” by Krista Foss. The full piece is forthcoming in our Winter issue (55:2), arriving on magazine stands and in mailboxes shortly. This...
PRISM 55:1 (Fall 2016): Read an Excerpt of “Comfort Zone” & an Interview with Matthew Hollett
Matthew Hollett is a visual artist and writer in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. He makes books and other interactive works that investigate landscape and memory through photography, writing and walking. His work has most recently been published in...