Issue 57.1 Teaser: Behind MA|DE

MA|DE is a collaborative writing partnership comprised of interdisciplinary artist Mark Laliberte, author of asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther 2017) and writer Jade Wallace, author of Rituals of Parsing (Anstruther 2018). MA|DE is based in Toronto, Ontario, and are currently working on their first full-length collection of poetry. You can find MA|DE online at ma-de.ca, as well as their poetry on our website, and in the latest issue of DREAMS 57.1.
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October 23, 2018 at 4:04 am Olga Holin read more

Summer Writing Prompt: Week 8

This is a favourite. To get you started, here are some ideas: The steps and ingredients to make an atomic bomb. The acqua alta phenomenon. Seismic sea waves. The splitting of light. Moon bows. Mirages. Summer Writing Prompts is...

August 1, 2018 at 8:46 am Molly Cross-Blanchard read more

Summer Writing Prompt: Week 3

Variations: – Write it in the form of a business email. Stick to a professional, clinical tone. Hash out the pros and cons of the relationship. Sign off appropriately. – Write a poem. Set it as your Tinder bio....

June 27, 2018 at 10:00 am Olga Holin read more

Summer Writing Prompt: Week 2

Did you wake up under the plush derriere of your cat? How about tangled under the syrupy arms of your lover? Did you spend the night, toe-to-chin, chin-to-toe, with a friend-of-a-friend on a sunken pullout sofa in the living...

June 20, 2018 at 10:00 am Olga Holin read more

Summer Writing Prompt: Week 1

Suggestions: – The lyrics from that early 2000s quasi-alternative-rock song your brother blasted from behind his bedroom door when you were both growing up. – The excerpt from that rap song that you usually just mumble. – That song you...

June 13, 2018 at 10:00 am Olga Holin read more

PRISM international Merch!

We are so happy to announce that our merchandise is finally available on our store. We love our totes bags with zippers. They are stunning and have zippers! The notebooks come as a set and we love them too! Just imagine...

June 1, 2018 at 9:00 am Olga Holin read more

Subtle Thrills: A Review of Peter Stamm’s To the Back of Beyond

Review by Taryn Grant To the Back Of Beyond by Peter Stamm, translated by Michael Hoffman Other Press, 2017 At first pass the title reads with a satisfying punch and clarity: To the Back of Beyond. On further scrutiny,...

May 24, 2018 at 10:00 am Molly Cross-Blanchard read more

Massy Books: Behind the Murphy Door

Interview by Jessica Johns and Claudia Wilde

In addition to providing resources for emerging writers on our website, PRISM is dedicated to featuring spaces and organizations that exist at the intersection of writing and community. Spaces that are essential to bridging the gap between what is uncertain and what is possible. Naturally, our attention turned to Massy Books, a 100% Indigenous-owned and operated bookstore. Currently, the store is located at 2206 Main Street, Vancouver, but will be moving to their new location of 229 E. Georgia St at the end of February. Though the new location will have a different layout, it will preserve its secret bookshelf door (built by carpenter Sam Grzesik, owner of S.G. Contracting and who also worked on the set of Harry Potter!). Other features include 14 ft high pipe shelving with semi-rolling ladders and a 500 sq. ft art gallery space upstairs.

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February 13, 2018 at 10:00 am Molly Cross-Blanchard read more

Between Us: The Stories We Keep 

Interview by Jasmine Sealy

Welcome back to Between Us, a conversation series that explores how we define Canadian immigrant literature, and how writers’ journeys to Canada shape their work. Here, writers discuss the tensions and freedoms that come with access to stories of home-place, and the many ways immigrant stories contribute to the Canadian cultural imaginary.

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December 17, 2017 at 4:23 pm Molly Cross-Blanchard read more