Interview by Nathaniel G. Moore
In her latest collection, Bicycle Thieves, Italian-Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist Mary di Michele examines the memories of her father’s life as an Italian in 1950s Montreal, and simultaneously reflects on what life is like after youth passes.
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Prompt #3: Limits Limits, and the way we navigate them, tell us a lot about ourselves. Sometimes we are pushed to our limits, and sometimes we push against them. Limits can build slowly, be a combination of what seems...
Alicia Elliott (@WordsandGuitar) is our 2017 Nonfiction Contest judge and the first ever interviewee for our Get to Know series! This series will be dedicated to getting to know our contest judges, magazine contributors, and writers we love.
Alicia Elliott is a Tuscarora writer living in Brantford, Ontario, where she worries she may one day die. Her writing has been published by Room, Maisonneuve, Grain, The New Quarterly and The Malahat Review. She has a monthly column with CBC Arts, and her essay “A Mind Spread Out on the Ground” won Gold for the 2017 National Magazine Award. She’s currently working on a collection of short stories and dealing with the fact that her only daughter is nearly a teenager.
Prompt #2: Contact On the night bus home, I receive a tap on my shoulder from the person next to me. Pulling out my headphones, I turn my head towards him. He says, “you know you’re never going to...
Bad Ideas
Michael V. Smith
Nightwood Editions, 2017
Interview by Matthew Walsh
Bad Ideas, Michael V. Smith’s newest collection of poetry was just released with Nightwood Editions this year. Described on the first inner page as a “book of anxieties,” the book is full of little things: prayers and dreams that examine identity, queerness, and politics. It was great to catch up with the Lambda Literary Award finalist about his new work, and all his bad ideas.
We are so pleased to announce Alicia Elliott as our Annual Nonfiction Contest judge! Alicia Elliott (@WordsandGuitar) is a Tuscarora writer living in Brantford, Ontario, where she worries she may one day die. Her writing has been widely...
We are so excited to announce that, along with our ongoing prose, poetry, and theatre reviews, we will be adding chapbooks to the review mix! From Anstruther Press and above/ground press to Rahila’s Ghost and dancing girl press, we...
It’s been ten days since the PRISM international team has grown in some ways and shrunk in others. The Spring Issue 55.3 has launched in the air to tremendous success, the old editors have passed the torch onto us new ones, we’ve redecorated the office with tree branches and whiteboards for actionable items, we’ve updated our contest and submission guidelines, and we’ve been furiously working on putting together our exciting new themed issue, The Liminal (now accepting submissions via Submittable).
We’re excited and honoured to announce the winners of the first-ever Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction, as selected by Jess Taylor! Grand Prize Winner “The Boat, as it Happened” by Carol Matthews – Nanaimo, BC Carol Matthews has...