Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st CenturyKim FuCoach House Books, 2022 Review by Simon Lowe Canadian author Kim Fu’s timely, genre-exploiting collection of short stories, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, is a weird, mind blowing examination of...
The 2022 Creative Nonfiction Contest is officially open, and we’re thrilled to announce Ivan Coyote as this year’s judge! Ivan Coyote is the award-winning author of thirteen books, the creator of four short films, and they have released three...
The Kissing of KissingHannah EmersonMilkweed Editions, 2022 Review by Clara Otto The Kissing of Kissing, the debut collection by nonspeaking autistic poet Hannah Emerson, is an invitation to see with new eyes. Hypnotic and tender, these poems pluck the...
Find a Place for MeDeirdre FaganRegal House Publishing, 2022 Review by Diane Gottlieb “I have ALS.” These are the words Deirdre Fagan’s forty-three year-old husband spoke just days after Christmas 2011. Bob, the father of their children (who were...
Beast at Every ThresholdNatalie WeeArsenal Pulp Press, 2022 Review by Stella Cali Natalie Wee’s Beast at Every Threshold explores queerness, identity, and diaspora. Through formal experimentation and controlled vulnerability, Wee has created a collection that feels simultaneously challenging and...
Hello lovely writers! PRISM Reviews is seeking pitches for interviews and reviews for our website! We want interviews that ask questions that slip beneath the surface, that get to the heart of a writer’s creative practice and inspire readers...
60.3 is live! The latest issue from PRISM features work from Tammy Armstrong, Farah Ghafoor, Courtney Bates-Hardy, Matthew Pitt, Noel Cheruto, Suphil Lee Park, Meaghan Rondeau, Yaissa Jiménez Trans. Emily Hunsberger, Kyle Gervais, Rachel Deutsch, Sandra Tsz Ching Lau,...
frank: sonnetsDiane Seuss Milkweed Editions, 2021 Review by Clara Otto Diane Seuss’s 2021 collection frank: sonnets explores addiction, disability, death, and love. In the hands of a less skilled poet the combination of these themes might make for a maudlin...
The Scent of LightKristjana GunnarsCoach House Books, 2022 Review by Kris Rothstein This winter, the term “autofiction” followed me around until I felt the need to investigate further. At its most obvious it is autobiographical fiction—but just below the...
