The latest issue from PRISM features work from Vinh Nguyen, Kelly Pedro, Robert McGill, Dylan Fisher, Candice May, Alison Stevenson, Jeremy Colangelo, Anne Baldo, Sage Ravenwood, Glenn Shaheen, Pauline Peters, Sarah Yi Mei Tsiang, Katie Martí, Saya Watanabe, Ruby...
You Better Be LightningAndrea GibsonButton Press Poetry, 2021 Review by Cynthia Sharp You Better Be Lightning from Button Press Poetry, an independent publisher of performance art, is Andrea Gibson’s eighth overall book in a collection that spans full-length individual...
Photo credit: Leah Jing McIntosh Interview by Alexa Margorian Grief is a well-trodden topic in literature; it is not often that a writer is able to breathe new life into such a universal theme. However, in her debut novel New...
PRISM is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 GG Lit Prize for V. Short Forms. Please join us in congratulating these fantastic writers! Grand Prize“How to Lick the Tongue of Black Ice” by Destiny Pitters ….. Runner-Up“Lichtenberg...
Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in VerseSholeh WolpéUniversity of Arkansas Press, 2022 Review by Elmaz Abinader Loss rumbles through one’s life—reverberates in every stage of our growth. We lose innocence, lose country, lose time, lose parts of ourselves; lose...
A selection of writers who have contributed to PRISM international will share their work in a live, in-person reading. There will be a brief intermission in which those who want to participate in a trivia contest about the Vancouver...
We are excited to announce that our annual PRISM international Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize is now open for submissions. We are so honoured to have the amazing judge Grace Lau. Grace is a settler living in Ontario on the traditional...
Interview by Daryl Sneath Portrayal—if we take the word at its origin, to draw or to paint, to depict in words—may well be the aim of any novelist. Few have mastered portrayal the way Heather O’Neill has. In O’Neill’s novels,...
PRISM is proud to share the longlisted pieces from The Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V Short Forms judged by our editors. Please join us in congratulating these awesome writers! Don’t forget, our Creative Non-Fiction Contest judged by Ivan Coyote is...
