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...
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...
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...