Prompt: Make Headlines
I spent the better part of an hour recently fighting with a newspaper’s customer service department. Our subscription seems to have lapsed, and for the life of her the woman on the other end of the...
View ArticlePrompt: “The Rick Roll”
Greetings PRISMers!! If you’ve ever been rick rolled, you know the effect can be surprising and hilarious. After seeing the following meme on the interwebs: Zach thought it would make a great prompt....
View ArticlePrompt: “The Meditation”
Greetings PRISMers!! Today’s challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a meditation, by which we mean, a layered, nuanced description of an image, thought, event, etc. The subject of your...
View ArticlePrompt: “Lyrics”
Greetings PRISMers!! Today’s writing exercise is to write a poem or prose piece inspired by the lyrics of one of your favorite artists. In fact, put on some of your favorite tunes. Right now. And turn...
View ArticlePrompt: Party People
I went to a Super Bowl party a couple weeks ago. (Stop laughing, Zach.) This would be a big surprise to people who know me, because I don’t like football. (I don’t hate it, but mainly because that...
View ArticleAWP Round-up: PRISM goes to Seattle!
The PRISM staff is back from the biggest writing conference in North America! The 2014 Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference (abbreviated—for some unknown reason—to AWP) was...
View ArticlePrompt: In the Mood
Given that the theme of our latest issue is Love & Sex, it comes as no surprise that somebody recently asked Zach for a sexy prompt. When he mentioned this, I immediately said, “Oh, let me do this...
View ArticlePrompt: A Different Point of View
There is a new building under construction not far from where I live. (This is not uncommon in Vancouver.) It’s a big project, but given that I approach it from the same direction just about every day,...
View ArticlePrompt: Say My Name, or “You Don’t Look Like A Susan”
I have the hardest time naming characters. The only thing that’s harder to come up with is a story title. I will often give a character a placeholder, one-syllable name or even leave them unnamed until...
View ArticleJeffrey Ricker’s new novel ‘The Unwanted’
Looking for some good young adult fiction to read over the summer? Well, look no further than former PRISM Contest Manager Jeffrey Ricker’s The Unwanted! Jeffrey’s second novel follows Jamie Thomas,...
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