We are excited to share Nolan Natasha’s short story, “Ambrosia.” This piece was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction. Judge Jackie Ess had this to say about the short story: The winning...
PRISM is thrilled to share the winning piece of the 2022 Wreck Beach Prize for Prose. Here is Ronaldo Acuna’s story, “Fathers” published in Issue 60.2. FathersRonaldo Acuna When you were in school studying to become a counsellor, you...
South Babak LakghomiDundurn Press, 2023 Review by Simon Lowe Babak Lakghomi’s sharp-edged, jewel-like novel, South, cuts as cleanly as it sparkles. A minimalist, literary dystopia recalling the sparse, unexplained mysteries of JG Ballard’s early catastrophe novels, South charts the hallucinatory...
Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the ForestAmanda LewisGreystone, 2023 Review by Kim Trainor We are surrounded by some of the most beautiful and ancient trees on the planet, yet many of us on the west...
Best Young Woman Job BookEmma HealeyRandom House Canada, 2022 Review by Kristina Rothstein On first perusal, Emma Healey’s Best Young Woman Job Book might seem like a slightly unconventional memoir. It could be read as a young writer’s life...
Angela of the Stones Amanda Hale Thistledown Press Ltd., 2018 Review by Katharine Beeman In her recent column for Juventud Rebelde, renowned Cuban intellectual Graziella Pogolotti wrote that “authentic art constitutes a specific way of knowing the most profound...
Written by Chee Brossy Photo by Jason S. Ordaz Issue 57.2 came out this week and to celebrate we’re sharing this Story Behind the Story for Chee Brossy’s excellent piece “Movin’ It”, including an excerpt from the story. Be sure to...
Questions by Kyla Jamieson What’s happening around you—either right around you or outside of where you are? My front gate just slammed shut. A kid is yelling. A baby cries in the apartment across the courtyard from me. It’s...
Interview by Tania De Rozario Thea Lim and I met in Singapore when we were twelve years old, in a queue to use the public telephone in the school canteen. We ended up classmates in high school and reconnected...