This week’s Tuesday Prompt is a throwback to one by former Executive Editor, Promotions Clara Kumagai. Since you’re working hard on sending in your entries to our 2016 Short Fiction Contest before the January 15th deadline, I thought this...
Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with Victoria-turned-Vancouver-turned-Toronto poet, and former PRISM poetry editor (2009-2010), Elizabeth Ross, whose debut collection Kingdom was published in Spring 2015 by Palimpsest Press. — A Dying Wasp – Elizabeth Ross...
With only eight days left to submit to our 2016 Poetry Contest, we thought it would be appropriate to have this Thursday’s throwback be last year’s poetry contest winner. Phoebe Wang’s chapbook, Occasional Emergencies, was published with Toronto’s Odourless Press in Fall...
With PRISM international’s Poetry Contest nine days away, we thought we’d get Poetry Contest Judge Kayla Czaga to share her insights on poetry, but with a twist.* We’ve slotted in the word “poetry” into these questions posed to former pageant contestants. Click...
Need some extra motivation to get in your poetry entry for our 2016 Poetry Contest? Here’s a poetry writing prompt from 2012 Poetry Contest Judge Jen Currin. And when you’re finished, be sure to check out our contest here! Jen...
by Matthew Walsh The Polymers Adam Dickinson House of Anansi, 2013 Adam Dickinson’s most recent collection, The Polymers, is a fierce book of poetry. Inventive with language and form, it doesn’t shy away from a poetic experiment. Dickinson’s collection...
The made-for-TV movie they showed in school about a mother and kids driving over a bridge in the sun to a rundown house and splashing each other with paint to music, is coming true. Though the father there was...
(excerpt) It was three AM when the missile fell into our backyard. If it hadn’t been so hot I might have missed its long, clear whistle and dead thud against the lawn. That summer, sleep was a game of...
FICTION CONTEST WINNER “Remainders” by Shana Myara FICTION RUNNER-UP “Last Concert—Luzon, Philippines” by Erin Frances Fisher POETRY CONTEST WINNER “Bonfire” by Deanna Young POETRY RUNNERS-UP “routine” by Andrea MacPherson “The Birth of Prairie Poetry (A Fiction)” by Chris Hutchinson FICTION “So Many...
