This just in from friends and local Vancouver poetry journal Poetry is Dead… Little Mountain Lit For one week only, the literary magazines of Vancouver are taking over Little Mountain Shop (4386 Main St, Vancouver, BC)! From September 19th...
Review by Kyle Schoenfeld The Mercy Journals Claudia Casper Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 As with any book imagining a future world, Claudia Casper’s The Mercy Journals threads its way between optimism and pessimism, utopia and dystopia. It’s impossible to...
We’re so proud to have published Colette Langlois’ literary fiction debut “The Emigrants” in PRISM 53.4. That story has been longlisted for the 2016 Journey Prize, presented by The Writers’ Trust and McClelland and Stuart. Congrats to Colette Langlois...
Review by Lesley Finn Pax by Sara Pennypacker Harper Collins, 2016 In the opening pages of Sara Pennypacker’s new novel, twelve-year-old Peter plays fetch with his pet in the woods. The idyll is all artifice: this is a scene...
Review by Will Preston The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff Little, Brown and Company, 2016 Some years ago, on the southwestern tip of England, I stumbled across a little stone chapel overlooking the sea. It was a gorgeous,...
The following translation appears in PRISM 54:4, our Summer 2016 issue. To get a copy of the latest issue, or your very own subscription, visit us anytime at our online store. THE ARRIVAL OF SEAGULLS I have seen gulls, in holy...
PRISM is please to present an excerpt our 2016 Short Fiction Contest winning piece, “You Can Do Better” by Taryn Pearcey. Taryn is a baker by day and a writer always. Her fiction has appeared in Maple Tree Literary...
Introduction by Chris Evans. PRISM 54.4 features the winners of our 2016 Short Fiction Contest, as chosen by contest judge, Lee Maracle—first place winner “You Can Do Better” by Taryn Pearcey, first runner-up “Montreal River” by Lesley Krueger, and...
Interviewed by Shaun Robinson. Kevin Shaw, the winner of our 2016 poetry contest, is a poet to watch. Besides winning Arc’s Poem of the Year contest last year, he has recent or forthcoming work in CV2 and Grain. He...