We’re excited to announce that the following stories have been longlisted for the first-ever Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction! We received a record-breaking number of submissions to this year’s fiction contest and it was an extremely difficult reading...
Review by Nathaniel G. Moore Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Cree-Metis writer from Saskatchewan, whose writing has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies, including Grain, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review, Geist, kimiwan, cîhcêwêsin and Best Canadian Essays. She is the author of the novel Just Pretending (Coteau...
PRISM is pleased to present an excerpt from “And the Moon Spun Round Like a Top” by Hiromi Goto, upcoming in Issue 55.3. Hiromi gratefully acknowledges funding from the Canada Council for the Arts which supported the writing of...
Review by Robert Colman The Witch of the Inner Wood M. Travis Lane Goose Lane Editions, 2016 M. Travis Lane has had a long and distinguished poetry career in Canada. Hers may not be quite the household name as...
Review by Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt The Orange Grove Larry Tremblay Sheila Fischman, translation Biblioasis, 2015 Brothers David Clerson Katia Grubisic, translation QC Fiction, 2016 Currently long-listed for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, Larry Tremblay’s The Orange Grove opens...
Review by Deborah Vail The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee ECW Press, 2016 A Vancouver-based writer born and raised on the city’s Downtown Eastside, Jen Sookfong Lee coaxes her readers down the frightening alleys and street corners of this...
Rebecca Salazar is a PhD candidate and Vanier scholar at UNB. Her first poetry chapbook is Guzzle (Anstruther), and other writings have appeared in The Malahat Review, Lemon Hound, and Partisan. She edits for Qwerty, The Fiddlehead, and icehouse...
Interview by Shazia Hafiz Ramji Jay Gamble is a poet, academic, and author of the long poem, Book of Knots, recently published by BookThug. The publisher says that Gamble’s poems “seek to engage with life’s failure, by building ‘a...
We’ve had the honour of publishing so many outstanding pieces of writing in the past year. We’re pleased to announce that the following authors and their pieces from recent issues of PRISM have been forwarded to the National Magazine Awards competition. (Essays)...
