PRISM international is a magazine

Magazine

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 published quarterly in Vancouver

Vancouver

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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. Established in 1959, it is Western Canada

Western Canada

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's senior literary magazine

Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

. The focus of the magazine is contemporary fiction

Fiction

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 and poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

, but it also publishes drama

Drama

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 and creative non-fiction.

The rendering of the name is idiosyncratic: "PRISM" is intentionally all upper-case, and "international" is all lower case.

External links

• PRISM international home page