Home > Archive for PRISM Online ( > Page 52)

Announcing the Longlist for the 2018 Grouse Grind Literary Prize for V.Short Forms!

We’re extremely excited to announce that the following stories have been longlisted for the 2018 Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms!

We were blown away by the number of submissions and the quality of writing in this year’s contest.

Check back soon for the shortlist and winners announcement, as chosen by our PRISM editorial board.

Continue reading Announcing the Longlist for the 2018 Grouse Grind Literary Prize for V.Short Forms!

Olga Holin read more

Magnified and Shrunk: A Review of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies

Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
Riverhead Books

Review by Claudia Wilde

Lauren Groff’s novel, Fates and Furies, is the first novel I was compelled to finish based almost solely off my fondness for the language. Never mind the story. (Which, by the way, is brilliant in its own right. I will get to this shortly.) Groff’s prose reads like poetry and the diction is precise, sticking to the tongue when spoken aloud: Continue reading Magnified and Shrunk: A Review of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies

Olga Holin read more

The Creative Process: Portrait of Yiyun Li

Interview and portrait by Mia Funk

“There is a clear-cut: old life, that’s old country, and here’s there’s new life, new country. It is an advantage. You are looking at life through an old pair of eyes and a new pair of eyes. And there’s always that ambivalence––Where do you belong? And how do you belong? And I do think these are advantages of immigrant writers or writers with two languages or who have two worlds.”

–YIYUN LI

Continue reading The Creative Process: Portrait of Yiyun Li

Molly Cross-Blanchard read more