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...
Rachael Moorthy is an emerging Canadian writer and recent graduate of the University of Victoria, where she studied fiction, poetry, and screenwriting. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Young Writers of Canada and This Side of West, and...
We come to you with another offering from our pals at Going Down Swinging! One of Australia’s oldest and strangest literary publishers, Going Down Swinging was conceived in 1979. It now produces print anthologies, audio recordings, multimedia publications, live events and a very...
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...
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...
PRISM is please to present an excerpt our 2016 Short Fiction Contest winning piece, “You Can Do Better” by Taryn Pearcey. Taryn is a baker by day and a writer always. Her fiction has appeared in Maple Tree Literary...
Introduction by Chris Evans. PRISM 54.4 features the winners of our 2016 Short Fiction Contest, as chosen by contest judge, Lee Maracle—first place winner “You Can Do Better” by Taryn Pearcey, first runner-up “Montreal River” by Lesley Krueger, and...
Review by Anjalika Samarasekera The Heaviness of Things that Float by Jennifer Manuel Douglas & McIntyre, 2016 The cover of Jennifer Manuel’s debut novel, The Heaviness of Things that Float, depicts two seashells attempting a yin yang configuration. The...
Interview by Robert Shaw Daniel Perry’s debut short fiction collection, Hamburger (Thistledown Press) was released this spring. With its impressive ability to seamlessly move between flash and prose pieces, the collection explores both the humour and poignancy of contemporary...