It’s been a week since we announced our longlist. Here are the eight pieces contending for the top three prizes! PRISM international’s 2016 Creative Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist “For J##” by Jessica Bebenek – Montreal, QC “Kiwi Grove” by Trish Cull...
INSIDE: Read new work by writers from Canada and around the world in this brand new general issue of PRISM international! Contributors: Lisa Baird, John Wall Bsrger, S.C. Bayat, Stephen Brown, Ann S. Epstein, Laura Farina, MAtthew Hollett, Eve Joseph, Ben Ladouceur, Michael...
Review by Wendy Bone Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Simpson ARP Books, 2016 Leanne Simpson’s Islands of Decolonial Love arrived in the post on a day when I was feeling edgy about the sorry state of the world,...
With our Fall Issue (55:1) set to arrive in mailboxes soon, we thought we’d give you a little taste of what’s to come in our latest issue. If you don’t have a subscription to PRISM, you can purchase one today at...
After weeks of careful reading and deliberating over so many quality works of non-fiction, PRISM international is elated to announce the long list for this year’s CNF contest! These are the twelve pieces currently under consideration for the shortlist and the...
Review by Francine Cunningham Birdie by Tracey Lindberg HarperCollins Canada, 2016 Birdie, written by first-time novelist Tracey Lindberg, citizen of the As’in’i’wa’chi Ni’yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree and hailing from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation, tells the story of...
This just in from friends and local Vancouver poetry journal Poetry is Dead… Little Mountain Lit For one week only, the literary magazines of Vancouver are taking over Little Mountain Shop (4386 Main St, Vancouver, BC)! From September 19th...
Review by Kyle Schoenfeld The Mercy Journals Claudia Casper Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 As with any book imagining a future world, Claudia Casper’s The Mercy Journals threads its way between optimism and pessimism, utopia and dystopia. It’s impossible to...
We’re so proud to have published Colette Langlois’ literary fiction debut “The Emigrants” in PRISM 53.4. That story has been longlisted for the 2016 Journey Prize, presented by The Writers’ Trust and McClelland and Stuart. Congrats to Colette Langlois...
