The FutureCatherine Leroux (Translated by Susan Ouriou)Biblioasis, 2023 Review by Marcie McCauley Catherine Leroux’s novel The Future (freshly translated by Susan Ouriou) presents a complex, layered story that probes how people navigate turbulent times, alone and together. She asks...
We are excited to share Murgatroyd Monaghan’s poem, “Thumbs.” This piece was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. Judge Mercedes Eng had this to say about the poem: The winning poem, Murgatroyd Monaghan’s “Thumbs,”...
PRISM international is proud to announce the winning pieces from our 2023 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize along with Mercedes Eng’s judge’s essay. Mercedes Eng is a prairie-born poet of Chinese and settler descent living in Vancouver on the unceded...
Silver RepetitionLily WangHouse of Anansi Press, 2024 Review by Maria Isabel Martinez In the opening pages of Lily Wang’s debut novel Silver Repetition, Yué Yué is at the Poetry Jazz Café with her date Johnny, whose friend is in...
The BoulevardJerrod EdsonGalleon Books, 2023 Review by Steven Mayoff On a train trip through Hell’s outer reaches to find Vincent Van Gogh, the Devil tells Ernest Hemingway about when God banished him and his angelic cohort from the vibrant...
PRISM Prompts is a treasure chest full of muses, wonderings, and inspiration for both seasoned writers who are itching for a new approach to their craft and new writers who are looking for a place to get started, somewhere outside of...
Photo Credit (left): Emma GorstPhoto Credit (right): Carole WaceyInterview by Helen Marshall and Daniel A. Rabuzzi Helen and Daniel met at the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium in 2011, and have been professional colleagues ever since. Helen was an editor on...
Light SpillLaura Mota-Juang Block Party, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh Laura Mota-Juang’s imaginative debut chapbook, Light Spill, creates an electrifying atmosphere where abstract concepts and intimate longings alike materialize in startlingly luminous forms. These are poems committed to stretching...
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