Exciting news! “Pooka” by Angélique Lalonde, published in PRISM 56.4, has won the 2019 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. The Journey Prize is Canada’s top recognition for short fiction by emerging writers. The Journey Prize jury, Carleigh...
Interview by Molly Cross-Blanchard When the PRISM team first began to discuss integrating artwork into the print issue, Danielle Friesen’s name was one of the first to come up. Her ink drawings are simple and dynamic, muscular and feminine,...
It’s that time of year again! PRISM’s annual Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction is now open for submissions. The prize is named for Jacob Zilber, who played a central role founding the University of British Columbia’s department of...
Sprawl. We love the onomatopoeic quality of this word. To spread, to be without boundary, to reach outside oneself, unapologetic. Imagine unfolding prairies, the slouch of city streets, the smoky silhouette of mountains beyond mountains. What stories reverberate home;...
Interview by Kate Finegan Paola Ferrante’s debut collection, What To Wear When Surviving A Lion Attack (Mansfield Press, 2019), explores how women survive trauma and abuse, and how society continues to allow these abuses to occur. The collection draws...
by Julia LoFasoArt by Danielle Friesen You’re a limb I can’t put weight on. Every time I test it, it still hurts. Is it progress that I’ve started to think of you as a sprained ankle? It’s much less...
Interview by David Ly Tess Liem’s debut full-length collection Obits. (Coach House Books) seeks to find a place where those who are othered can mourn and find themselves. It’s a vulnerable collection, one with layers so intimate to the...
Spooky season is here—and so is the latest issue! The poetry and prose in 58.1 FIGURES show us shapes that manifest, charm, defy, and arouse. You heard that right! As written by editors Molly Cross-Blanchard and Emma Cleary, “We...
Illustration by Nadia Bormotova Get to know writer Senaa Ahmad, whose story “The Women, Before and After” closes our FIGURES issue. Ahmad activates familiar technology to weave generations of women’s voices—distinct, urgent, desirous, and alive—into the narrative. Be sure...
