PRISM 60.1: WONDER
60.1 is officially out in the world! In issue 60.1, you’ll find work from the three winners of the 2021 Grouse Grind Literary Prize for Very Short Fiction: Suzannah Showler, Moni Brar, and Delani Valin. The issue also features...
Call for submissions! Themed issue: MYTH
We are excited to announce our call for submissions for issue 60.3: MYTH. “All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.” REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL?...
59.4 Teaser: An Interview with Jacob Zilber Prize Winners Jessica Bloom, Amorina Kingdon, and Zilla Jones
Interview by Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li This year’s 2021 Jacob Zilber Prize winners‘ stories, chosen by contest judge Téa Mutonji, explore themes of sexuality, identity, branding, desire, and connection. Their words are luminous—reflecting and challenging society’s profit off time,...
“You Must Change Your Life”: A Review of Morrison and Tomkinson’s “Archaic Torso of Gumby”
Archaic Torso of GumbyGeoffrey Morrison & Matthew TomkinsonGordon Hill Press, 2020 Review by Max Karpinski Geoffrey Morrison and Matthew Tomkinson’s Archaic Torso of Gumby resists the traditional moves available to a reviewer. There is no reducing this strange and...
The 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest Winners!
We received so many delightful and horrifying and hilarious and informative pieces of writing for this year’s contest. We’re honoured to announce the winners of this year’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, as selected by Marcos Gonsalez! Grand Prize Winner “Translation” by Emma...
Announcing the Shortlist for PRISM’s 2021 Creative Non-Fiction Contest!
The following 5 pieces made PRISM’s 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest shortlist! Check back soon for the winners announcement, chosen by this year’s contest judge, Marcos Gonsalez. (PS, our Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize is open for submissions until September 30!)...
Announcing the Longlist for PRISM’s 2021 Creative Non-Fiction Contest!
PRISM is excited to share our longlist for the 2021 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! We were blown away by the quality of submissions for this contest. Thank you to everyone who submitted and trusted us with their work. These 8...
“The violence we lived in was also an act of tenderness”: An Interview with Rayanne Haines
There is grimness and there is vitality in Tell the Birds Your Body is Not a Gun. Rayanne Haines engages with pain and scars, but is also familiar with warmth and tenderness, in her rendition of the personal and social—she...
“And still, we gallop into it”: An Interview with Kaveh Akbar
Interview by Shereen Lee “This is a holy text,” Kaveh Akbar pronounces at the opening of his new collection, Pilgrim Bell. But his persona is unsure of how to write a text befitting holiness, or what it even means...