We are excited to announce our call for submissions for issue 60.1: WONDER. Bring us your castles in the sky, your fantastic cartographies. Take us to the places that exist in the corner of your eyes, the garden between...
Stoop CityKristyn DunnionBiblioasis, 2020 Review by Chantelle Cho “It’s like last winter when she took that girl Lena on a road trip and left me to finish my thesis in the sub-zero gloom.” This is how the first story...
Our shortest-form contest is now open for submissions until May 1st! The Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms is judged by PRISM’s editorial board. We’re ready to sink our teeth into your flash fiction, micro-memoir, poetic hybrids...
Eat A PeachDavid ChangClarkson Potter/Publishers 2020 Review by Caileigh Broatch David Chang wears a lot of hats, the first of which is a chef’s hat. He is, after all, the founder of the Momofuku Restaurant Group (with a new...
Photo Credit: Etye SarnerReview by Janice Weizman We all have a fascination with the paradox of genius; on one hand, individuals touched by extraordinary gifts have, by definition, access to realms and abilities that are out of reach to...
on/meFrancine CunninghamCaitlin Press, 2019 Review by Kim Trainor Let’s start with the title: on/me. Every poem in the collection has two titles: a main title that suggests a general category (On Grief, On Love, On Identity, On Mental Health)...
SevenFarzana DoctorDundurn Toronto, 2020 Review by Kiran Bhat The number seven is a number of great meaning in many religions, particularly the Abrahamic ones. The day of rest after creation was the seventh; the number of heavens, or afterworlds,...
Interview by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Peter Midgley’s latest collection, let us not think of them as barbarians (NeWest Press, 2019), is a “sensual and intimate” exploration and reconfiguration of Namibia’s history, philosophy, and relationship to the present. It was...
Written by Jaminnia R. States “Meditations on My Face” was the first runner-up in PRISM’s 2020 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Alexander Chee. To read the other winning essays, pick up a copy of Issue 59.2 from our online...