UnmeaningableRoxanna BennettGordon Hill Press, 2019 A Cemetery for HolesTom Prime and Gary BarwinGordon Hill Press, 2019 Reviews by Robert Colman Starting a small press is a precarious, quixotic enterprise. It isn’t just the low (or zero) pay and long...
AriaNazanine HozarKnopf Canada, 2019 Review by Elina Taillon In the years prior to the Iranian revolution, a baby girl is abandoned in an alleyway in Tehran. Found by a man who will become her adoptive father, her life is...
Poem by Cynthia Dewi OkaArt by Emily Young-Ah Lee The winter issue of PRISM is on newsstands now. Order it here, and while you’re waiting at the mailbox, read this online exclusive poem by print contributor Cynthia Dewi Oka,...
Even That Wildest Hopeby Seyward GoodhandInvisible Publishing, 2019 Review by Kate Finegan Seyward Goodhand’s debut collection of short fiction, Even That Wildest Hope (Invisible Publishing, 2019) begins with a question: “How can a man with love in his heart...
Photo credit: Caroline MorrisInterview by Emma Cleary We are grateful to Jonathan Wei for making time to talk with us about his rhythmically gripping CNF piece, “Dead Languages Or The What,” published in our Winter issue (58.2). Read on...
Interview by David Ly Alex Leslie’s latest poetry collection Vancouver for Beginners (Book*hug Press, 2019) is a ghost story, an elegy, and a love song for a city that is both indecipherable and a microcosm of a world on...
Kristen Arnett had a big 2019. Her debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, became a New York Times bestseller and was named a best book of the year by The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, TIME, and Washington...
We’re so pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, as chosen by judge Katherena Vermette. Congrats to Colleen, Cody, and Lou! Grand Prize “The Spring of Grade Nine” by Colleen Baran Colleen Baran is...
Happy Wednesday! We’re so pleased to announce the shortlist for our 2019 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. Please join us in congratulating these six incredible poets! “Jungle, At Voltage” by Hari Alluri“why the sex addict is a porkchop preteNDN” by...
