We’re excited to announce that the following stories have been shortlisted for the first-ever Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction! Check back soon for the winners announcement, followed by the winners as chosen by Jess Taylor, author of Pauls (BookThug 2015)....
We’re excited to announce that the following stories have been longlisted for the first-ever Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction! We received a record-breaking number of submissions to this year’s fiction contest and it was an extremely difficult reading...
PRISM is pleased to present an excerpt from “And the Moon Spun Round Like a Top” by Hiromi Goto, upcoming in Issue 55.3. Hiromi gratefully acknowledges funding from the Canada Council for the Arts which supported the writing of...
Review by Deborah Vail The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee ECW Press, 2016 A Vancouver-based writer born and raised on the city’s Downtown Eastside, Jen Sookfong Lee coaxes her readers down the frightening alleys and street corners of this...
We’ve had the honour of publishing so many outstanding pieces of writing in the past year. We’re pleased to announce that the following authors and their pieces from recent issues of PRISM have been forwarded to the National Magazine Awards competition. (Essays)...
Interview by Anita Bedell Eden Robinson is the author of the novels Monkey Beach (2000), Blood Sports (2006) and Son of a Trickster (Penguin Random House, 2017), the short story collection Traplines (1995), and Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling (2011),...
Mahak Jain is the author of the picture book Maya, which was a CBC Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and a Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Best Book for Kids and Teens starred...
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...