58.2 Teaser: Get to know Bardia Sinaee
Our winter issue 58.2 is out now! Get to know Bardia Sinaee, whose poem “Only the truth” appears in the issue. Why do you live where you live? My family and most of my friends are in Toronto. I...
58.2 Teaser: Get to Know Christine Ottoni
Photo by Christopher De Rosa Get to know writer Christine Ottoni, whose story “Plastic” is published in our Winter issue (58.2). Pick up a copy to read her story and consider subscribing to PRISM so you’ll never miss an issue! ...
Announcing the 2019 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize longlist!
Happy New Year! We’re so pleased to announce the longlist for our 2019 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. Please join us in congratulating these twelve incredible poets and their longlisted poems! “Sea Rye Sing” by Jennifer Dickieson “Jungle, At Voltage”...
Eglinton Avenue in New Fiction: A comparative review of Frying Plantain and The Student
Frying Plantain Zalika Reid-BentaHoue of Anansi Press, 2019 The StudentCary FaganFreehand Books, 2019 Review by Marcie McCauley Right now, the construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT in Toronto is relentless: traffic is crawling. On the page, however, Eglinton Avenue...
What the Oceans Remember: An Interview with Dr. Sonja Boon
Interview by Deborah Vail I met Dr. Sonja Boon at a recent writing retreat in Trinity, Newfoundland organized by editor Allyson Latta. The official launch of her memoir, What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (WLU Press,...
“Tell How It Really Happened”: A Review of Douglas Walbourne-Gough’s Crow Gulch
Crow GulchDouglas Walbourne-Goughicehouse poetry, 2019. Review by Kim Trainor In a CBC interview about his debut collection Crow Gulch, Douglas Walbourne-Gough observes, “I would really hope one of the things that the book speaks, back to me and everyone...
The Quotidian that Simmers Underneath: A Review of Julie Paul’s Meteorites
MeteoritesJulie PaulTouchWood Editions, 2019 Review by Elina Taillon In her third short story collection, Meteorites, Julie Paul offers us quiet glimpses into a Canadian quotidian that simmers underneath those thornier, tangled parts of life: a family rift, impotence to...
Frying Plantain: An Interview with Zalika Reid-Benta
Photo by Michele ComeauInterview by Chimedum Ohaegbu Zalika Reid-Benta’s collection, Frying Plantain (House of Anansi Press 2019), is her splash-making debut, already garnering a spot on the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The collection consists of twelve linked stories about...
Bunny: An Interview with Mona Awad
Photo by Brigitte LacombeInterview by Chimedum Ohaegbu Mona Awad’s highly anticipated second book, Bunny (Viking, 2019), is a campus novel dipped in malice and wonder. The novel follows lonely MFA student Samantha Heather Mackey, who desperately longs for the...