The Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize deadline is just around the corner! Kate Black caught up with Katherena Vermette, this year’s contest judge, to talk truth and poetry and what she’s looking for in a winning entry. Katherena is a...
PRISM international is proud to announce the winner of the 2019 Earle Birney Poetry Prize is Michelle Poirier Brown for her poem “Wake” published in issue 57.1: DREAMS, available now! Earle Birney established UBC’s MFA program in Creative Writing...
In 2018 I edited the interview collection What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Converstion (Nightwood Editions). In the process, I learned of all the ways an equal conversation between two poets, as opposed to a unidirectional interview,...
We’re so pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Creative Non-fiction Contest, as chosen by judge Sharan Dhaliwal. As Sharan writes, “with each of these submissions, we are taken on their journeys in a way that serves only...
And without further ado, here’s our shortlist for our annual Creative Non-fiction contest: Tabitha Siklos, “Half Scissor” Barbara Tran, “Peerless” Shelley Pacholok, “The Body Does not Flee” Rachel Lindley-Maycock, “And Begin” Jonathan Wei, “Dead Languages or The What” We’ll...
Interview by Tara McGuire Peter Orner’s new collection Maggie Brown & Others (Little, Brown and Company, 2019) was released in early July. The New York Times calls Orner “A master of his form.” Tara McGuire spoke with Peter Orner...
By Jess Taylor This story is an excerpt from Jess Taylor’s new collection “Just Pervs”, which is now available from Book*hug Press Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, from one bad dream or another. I get...
We’re thrilled to announce the nine stories longlisted for our annual Creative Non-fiction contest: Madelena Grossmann, “Refuge” Tabitha Siklos, “Half Scissor” Sheena Koo, “Mangosteen Guy” Barbara Tran, “Peerless” Jamie L. Smith, “Mythology Lessons” Caroline Goodwin, “Otters” Shelley Pacholok, “The...
Alm had some things he needed to do in town early, so Fanny could get a lift if she liked. As he drove, he drank coffee from a paper cup. It looked as though he was holding it in...