From left to right: Mikayla Ruppe, Natalie Lim, Chimedum Ohaegbu and Stephanie Chang Interview by Isabella Wang As a young writer, there is nothing I love more than being out there in the community. Sometimes, that community is built...
Our annual Creative Non-fiction Contest is now open for submissions! You have until July 31, 2019 (extended deadline) to give us your best true stories—from essays to memoirs, to literary journalism and beyond! We are honoured to have Sharan Dhaliwal as this...
Interview by Muniyra Douglas In this interview, PRISM speaks with Ugandan author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi about her novel Kintu, her new short story collection, teaching, and the writing process. You’re a Creative Writing lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. How does being...
Exciting times around the PRISM office: we’re welcoming our new editorial team for the 2019-20 publishing year! We can’t wait for you to meet them—you’re gonna love them. Shristi Uprety—Executive Editor, Circulation and Finance circulation@prismmagazine.ca @ShristiUprety Shristi Uprety is...
Photo by Alexa Jane Battler Interview by Natasha Ramoutar Adrian De Leon seems to have come out of nowhere. With only a handful of literary journal publications to his name and no blurbs on the back of his book...
We are super excited to announce our call for submission for issue 58.1, Figures. PRISM seeks writing that offers nuanced representations of the bodies we inhabit, grapples with the relationships that form us—father figures, idols, rivers that carve through rock—and...
The Collected Schizophrenias Esmé Weijun Wang Graywolf Press Review by Margeaux Feldman Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays begins with a proclamation: “Schizophrenia terrifies.” For Wang, who was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, the most terrifying thing...
Written by Özten Elaine Paul Artwork by Aileen Bahmanipour For nishiime, Erlen Brandon Özkanli, 2003—2018 You faced north as the dump truck filled your brother’s grave with dirt. They charged extra just to dig into the earth, frozen solid from...
Questions by Kyla Jamieson Photo by Maki Fotos Get to know poet, photographer, and all-around badass Tenille K Campbell, whose poem “medicine songs” appears in our Ruin themed issue 57.3 , and whose poem “question” appeared on our website...
