Tansi/Hello, We thank you for finding and creating space with us here today. These voices reflect some of the diversity and vibrance of the Indigenous community, and we hope that you’ll take some time to breathe deeply, connect with...
South Babak LakghomiDundurn Press, 2023 Review by Simon Lowe Babak Lakghomi’s sharp-edged, jewel-like novel, South, cuts as cleanly as it sparkles. A minimalist, literary dystopia recalling the sparse, unexplained mysteries of JG Ballard’s early catastrophe novels, South charts the hallucinatory...
DancesNicole CuffyOne World, 2023 Review by Jasmine Morris Nicole Cuffy’s debut novel is a story brimming with vivid prose that weaves together threads of artistic ambition, black womanhood, and a complex internal journey. Cuffy charts how an uncomplicated dream...
Photo credit: Rob SkujaInterview by Kate Finegan Paola Ferrante is a powerful Toronto-based writer whose work consistently unsettles and inspires me. We first connected through Twitter and then became climbing partners. Grappling with difficult routes turned out to be...
Slows: TwiceT. LiemCouch House Books, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh T. Liem’s second poetry collection Slows: Twice asks us to inhabit a world of doubles where everything must be approached slowly, with extraordinary care, lest it shimmer into a...
These Herbs Know You by Name by Okechi Okeke 1. The second time you, my dead grandmother, came to me, we didn’t hug, didn’t speak to each other. You were outside your mud-house, seated on a low...
Photo credit: Jackson HagnerInterview by Franz Seachel Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer. She is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, which was chosen by Emma Watson for her online...
PRISM international is proud to share the work of our three winners! First Place “No One Tells You Outright Grandma is an Asshole” by Erin MacNair People don’t tell kids the truth. They say things like sex and drugs...
Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the ForestAmanda LewisGreystone, 2023 Review by Kim Trainor We are surrounded by some of the most beautiful and ancient trees on the planet, yet many of us on the west...
