Review by Will Preston The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood Allen & Unwin, 2015 Europa editions, 2016 Yolanda wakes. She’s in an unfamiliar room, somewhere deep in the Australian outback. The door has no handle; a narrow...
Mahak Jain is the author of the picture book Maya, which was a CBC Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and a Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Best Book for Kids and Teens starred...
Interview by A. Niamh Higgins Laura Farina always seems to be in the right place at the right time. The Ottawa-born poet, now based in Vancouver, published her first collection, This Woman Alphabetical (49th Shelf, 2005), at age twenty-four—the kind...
Review by Amy Kenny Becoming Unbecoming By Una Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 This graphic novel is labelled memoir, but a better categorization might be subconscious. That’s the word that comes to mind reading Becoming Unbecoming—an examination of violence, misogyny,...
Order a copy now! Contents Rachel Rose – Fine Pieces, Finely Wrought (Judge’s Essay) Non-Fiction Grand Prize Winner Krista Foss – Choosing Your Poison Non-Fiction Runners-Up Richard Kelly Kemick – States of Mind Olivia Walton – Lineage Fiction...
Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize judge Tim Bowling to discuss his twelfth poetry collection “The Duende of Tetherball“. Coyote – Tim Bowling Shoved its head heraldic through the autumn foliage fifty...
We are delighted to announce that the following three poems have been chosen as our winners by Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke! Congratulations to the three winning poets, to everyone who made our short and long lists, and...
Congratulations to the following six poets named to the shortlist of the first Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize! We will announce the winners soon, as chosen by Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke. “Remains” by Heather Fraser – Victoria, BC...
Review by Andrea Westcott U Girl by Meredith Quartermain Talonbooks, 2016 As a meta-narrative about the process of writing a novel, U Girl succeeds because novelist Meredith Quartermain has already thought through the writing process, so that her narrator...
