Glad to get this news this morning! We are pleased to announce the twelve finalists for this year’s Far Horizons award: Erin Fisher, “Suite in Dark Matter” Tanya M. Gadsby, “Skinned Seal” Elaine Hayes, “Rearranging Rainbows”‘ Michael Kissinger, “The Daytime…
Monday May 30th, 7:00-8:00, Wood Hall in the Victoria Conservatory of Music. 30 awesome performers from the age of 3.5 through 17 have been working hard all year and get to show it. I’m excited, students, as I’m sure you…
Prism sent a few of John K Samson’s comments to John Threlfall and he passed them on to me: Judge John K. Samson felt Fisher’s story was “crafted as tightly as an enduring poem, and is full of fuse-like sentences…
So fellow UVic-ite and soon to be UBC-er Will Johnson won the The Fiddlehead’s Short Fiction competition this year with his piece “Sea to Sky”. It’s a fine read, with clean, straight forward prose, and MiriamToews-esque characters that are full of…
With no cold water in the bathroom, a shower that I can’t stand up in, no stove or oven, and the rent going up we thought it might be time to move. Turns out xkcd got it right about apartment…
Thanks John for putting this together, and to Matthew for his help and encouragement this year! UVic’s The Ring says…. “Erin Fisher is $2,000 richer, thanks to her first-place win for a story originally written as a first-year assignment for…
Two great things are happening this friday, and though I can’t do both I wish I could! Take your pick: Victoria Symphony May 6 at 8pm Alix Goolden Hall VS Principal Violist Kenji performs Jacques Hetu’s Viola Concerto in the…
PRISM says: This year we received over two-hundred and fifty short stories and over three-hundred and fifty poems! Needless to say, the decisions were difficult and the quality of the work was phenomenal. But after weeks and weeks of deliberation,…
Tea Obreht, another “20 Under 40” has published her first novel: The Tiger’s Wife. I read Tea’s short story “Blue Water Djinn” in the New Yorker’s collection, was immediately impressed by the control of the language and structure, and went…
Yes, it’s a add for a wooden I-phone…still–fantastic!