Standing in the Forest of Being Alive Katie Farris Alice James Books, 2023 Review by ALHS Katie Farris’s debut collection, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, is frank and vivacious, weaving out of the complexity of life an...
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...
Calling all writers! PRISM Reviews is currently accepting interviews and reviews of prose, theatre, poetry, creative nonfiction, and graphic forms (600-1300 words). We want interviews that delve into the creative realms of writers and theatremakers. We want reviews that...
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st CenturyKim FuCoach House Books, 2022 Review by Simon Lowe Canadian author Kim Fu’s timely, genre-exploiting collection of short stories, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, is a weird, mind blowing examination of...
Find a Place for MeDeirdre FaganRegal House Publishing, 2022 Review by Diane Gottlieb “I have ALS.” These are the words Deirdre Fagan’s forty-three year-old husband spoke just days after Christmas 2011. Bob, the father of their children (who were...
Hello lovely writers! PRISM Reviews is seeking pitches for interviews and reviews for our website! We want interviews that ask questions that slip beneath the surface, that get to the heart of a writer’s creative practice and inspire readers...
By Laura Anne Harris After experiencing the quintessentially small-town occurrence of sharing a cab with an older couple, only to have them pay for my entire ride, I arrived at the Malaspina Theatre in Nanaimo, British Columbia for the...
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...
By Robert Colman Books discussed: Complete Physical by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2010) On Shaving Off His Face by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2015) Dysphoria by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2017) According to Deadly Force, a...