We’re so pleased to announce that the following twelve poems by ten poets have been longlisted for the first-ever Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. We received an overwhelming number of powerful entries from across the world and would like to...
PRISM is proud to present an excerpt from our 2016 Creative Non-Fiction Contest winning piece, “Choosing Your Poison” by Krista Foss. The full piece is forthcoming in our Winter issue (55:2), arriving on magazine stands and in mailboxes shortly. This...
Interview by Aja Moore Vancouver poet Adèle Barclay just released her debut poetry collection, If I Were In A Cage I’d Reach Out For You (Nightwood Editions, 2016). We talked about it over dosas the day before Halloween. I...
Jess Taylor, author of the short story collection Pauls from BookThug, is the judge of the inaugural Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction (full contest details here). Curtis LeBlanc, PRISM international‘s Promotions Editor, had the opportunity to pick her brain on a...
Interview by Heather Ramsay Bev Sellars has had many roles in her community. She was elected chief in 1987-1993 and again from 2009-2015. She stepped forward and was featured in newspaper and television accounts when her community of Xat’sull...
Interview by Nathaniel G. Moore Digsite, Owain Nicholson’s debut collection of poetry was recently published by Nightwood Editions. A longtime BC resident, Nicholson recently moved to Toronto to complete his MFA and is working on new writing projects as...
Review by Sarah Higgins Creeps by David E. Freeman and RealWheels Theatre The Cultch Theatricality is put to excellent use as a catalyst for reflection in RealWheels Theatre’s production of Creeps. David E. Freeman’s play explores the experience of four...
Preview by Sarah Higgins Creeps by David E. Freeman and RealWheels Theatre The Cultch “I think what’s really important that the disability experience is the human experience,” says Rena Cohen, producer and dramaturge...
Review by Will Preston Evicted by Matthew Desmond Penguin Random House, 2016 Right now, as you read this sentence, somebody in the United States is being evicted. Most likely they’re black; most likely they’re a woman. Most likely it’s...
