Review by Selina Boan Diversion by George Murray ECW Press, 2015 Sitting down to read George Murray’s seventh collection of poetry, aptly titled Diversion, I found myself entering a world of one-off lines, aphorisms and clever hashtag titles (such...
We announced our long list on Monday (here it is in case you missed it) and we know the suspense is killing you… So here is PRISM international’s Short Fiction Contest short list for 2016, in no particular order! Only...
Review by Will Preston The Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis Penguin Random House Available May 17, 2016 It’s 1913, and Buenos Aires is a picture of bedlam. Exploding with an influx of immigrants, the city is a...
We’re excited to announce the long list for our 2016 Short Fiction Contest! This year we received almost 450 entries from Canada, and around the world. Of these, fifteen were selected for the long list. Here is PRISM’s Short Fiction Contest long...
You may have noticed something’s different about PRISM–something brighter, maybe a little weird, and unlike anything you’ve seen before. I’m talking about our Spring 54.3 cover, of course! Our Creative Non-fiction Contest Issue features Maciek Jasik’s “African Horned Melon” as our...
Today is International Women’s Day, a global day dedicated to celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. We couldn’t think of a better way to...
We’ve been pretty busy here at PRISM international this past month. If we’re not busy with the 2016 Poetry and Fiction Contests, we’re writing grants for the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council, two organizations...
Here’s our monthly offering from our pals at Going Down Swinging! One of Australia’s oldest and strangest literary publishers, Going Down Swinging was conceived in 1979. It now produces print anthologies, audio recordings, multimedia publications, live events and a very busy website. We’re...
With only eight days left to submit to our 2016 Poetry Contest, we thought it would be appropriate to have this Thursday’s throwback be last year’s poetry contest winner. Phoebe Wang’s chapbook, Occasional Emergencies, was published with Toronto’s Odourless Press in Fall...