Writing Advice in Easily Digested Memes. Yum!
For today’s dose of e-phemera, I give you the Interwebs’ best writing advice in easily digested meme packets. These are delicious! (Also, pretty accurate. It’s almost as if these people really know...
View ArticleHow to Break All the Rules and Be a Better Poet for It: Sing-Song Rhyme
by Poetry Editor Zach Mattteson “Sing a song a sixpence, a pocket full of rye– four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie…” Rule: Avoid sing-song/heavy rhyme! Correction: Rhyme is arguably older than...
View Article10 Ways to Annoy a Poet (and other writers of “less marketable” literature)
Last month, Rebecca Makkai wrote a gut-busting post over on the Ploughshares blog, entitled 14 Ways to Tick Off a Writer. (Go read that post right now because it is hilarious.) It got a lot of us over...
View ArticleHow to Break All the Rules and Be a Better Poet for It: Mythology
by Poetry Editor Zach Matteson Rule: Avoid mythological references in your poetry! (Especially Greco-Roman or Biblical myths!) Correction: There’s a good reason why your creative writing teacher would...
View ArticleHow to Annoy a Writer, Part I
In my last e-phemera offering, I shared Ruth Daniell‘s 10 Ways to Annoy a Poet, which was inspired by Rebecca Makkai‘s hilarious post 14 Ways to Tick Off a Writer. Continuing with Makkai’s...
View ArticleContests, Contests, Contests
Now that PRISM’s contest season has officially come to a close, I thought I’d take a moment to point any writers who have that literary contest bug (and we all have that bug from time to time) toward...
View ArticleHow to Annoy a Writer, Part II
In recent e-phemera offerings, I shared Ruth Daniell‘s 10 Ways to Annoy a Poet and a story by Nicole Boyce, both of which were inspired by Rebecca Makkai‘s hilarious post 14 Ways to Tick Off a Writer....
View ArticleI have nineteen questions for you…
Over the past year, our writer interviews have become a favourite read on the PRISM website. We’ve had the chance to share with you exciting new works and engaging conversations from emerging to...
View ArticlePRISM’s annual LAUNCH PARTY!
It’s officially launch season in magazine land and we’d be amiss not to invite you to our party. This year, PRISM is excited to share our annual launch party with Event Magazine, Poetry Is Dead, and...
View ArticleDon’t forget: PRISM’s Launch Party!
PRISM is getting ready and getting excited for our Launch Party! It’s this Thursday, April 17th at 7pm at the Cottage Bistro, 4468 Main St, Vancouver B.C. We’ll be sharing our launch with Event...
View ArticleThe Tuesday Prompt: Unexpected Combos, by Tariq Hussain
This week’s prompt is by UBC Lecturer Tariq Hussain, lyricist extraordinaire and writing prompt pro. Writing prompts are a useful way to get the dustballs out of a sleepy, hungover, or just plain lazy...
View ArticleThe Tuesday Prompt: Undercover
This prompt is courtesy of writing prompts on tumblr. What I like about this prompt is how un-literally you can make it. If you like, you can write with those exact guidelines. Or, you can take the...
View ArticleThe Tuesday Prompt: A Change Will Do You Good
More often than not, I find myself writing in the same places. The routine can be nice, especially to establish an association for my brain. Hey Brain, we’re at a coffee shop. That means work, yo....
View ArticleCheck it: PRISM is going to Word!
It’s that time of year again: lots of rain and literary festivals! We’re excited to be a part of Word Vancouver again this year and it looks like it’s going to be the best one yet (no, seriously). Word...
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Announcing our Annual Nonfiction Contest Judge: Alicia Elliott!
We are so pleased to announce Alicia Elliott as our Annual Nonfiction Contest judge! Alicia Elliott (@WordsandGuitar) is a Tuscarora writer living in Brantford, Ontario, where she worries she may one...
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#14summerprompts: Solstice
Prompt #1: Solstice Perhaps the only thing blistering is your tattered feet, clad in a new pair of Birkenstocks, expecting a sunny walk to the bus stop on June 20th, the day the calendar dictated as...
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#14summerprompts: Contact
Prompt #2: Contact On the night bus home, I receive a tap on my shoulder from the person next to me. Pulling out my headphones, I turn my head towards him. He says, “you know you’re never going to meet...
View ArticleGet To Know: Alicia Elliott
Alicia Elliott (@WordsandGuitar) is our 2017 Nonfiction Contest judge and the first ever interviewee for our Get To Know series! This series will be dedicated to getting to know our contest judges,...
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#14summerprompts: Coping
Prompt #5: Coping Everyone deals with pain, stress, and pressure differently. The coping mechanisms, or lack thereof, that we put in place pull at the foundations of relationships in our lives, even if...
View ArticleFree Contest Entries for Indigenous Writers
Reviewing the submissions we received in response to our new editorial team’s first call, “The Liminal,” a call intended to take what is often thought of as “marginal” and place it at the centre of our...
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