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...
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...
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...
Interview by Bruce Geddes Radium Girl is Sofi Papamarko’s debut collection of short stories, exploring themes of loneliness and alienation, and women reclaiming their power. What follows is a conversation between Sofi and Bruce Geddes about vengeance, flawed characters,...
We, JaneAimee WallBook*hug Press, 2021 Review by Kris Rothstein Marthe is a young woman going nowhere; her waitressing job is a dead end, she doesn’t really like her friends, and though she has lived in Montreal for a few...
Interview by Uche Umezurike Teardrops on the Weser (2021) consists of poems elegantly crafted by practiced fingers, poems as luminous as they are liquid. Water imagery ripples through the rhythm of the poems, charting the poet’s itineraries far and wide. Migration,...
We are excited to announce that our annual PRISM international Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize is now open for submissions. We are so honoured to have the amazing judge Cecily Nicholson. Cecily Nicholson is the author of Triage, From the Poplars, winner of...
Interview by Uche Umezurike In Where the Baedeker Leads, James Yékú explores in language precise and mellifluous the particulars of longing and love, home and diaspora. He takes the reader along routes of memory and immediacy, traversing time and...
59.4 is live folks! In issue 59.4, you’ll find work from the three winners of the 2021 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction: Zilla Jones, Amorina Kingdon, and Jessica Bloom. The issue also features a thought provoking cover photo,...