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Nice! Newpages.com has a thoughtful and generous review of our recent Issue 13
January reading
On Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012, poet Genevieve Kaplan, author of the collection In the ice house, and fiction writer Bryan Hurt, author of many awesome stories including this one, visited the ULV campus to talk to creative writing students and to give readings of their works (in the lovely ULV Chapel). Genevieve had us shivering with pristine and stark images of landscapes and solitude; Bryan had us rollicking greatly with fictionish tales of old one-armed Cervantes and Thomas Day. It was a great time and an excellent reading.
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Prism Review Launch Party
Last May, we launched Prism Review #13. The party was at our school’s fantastic Harris Art Gallery, and it was a fun time with far too much food and great lit. Staff-members read favorite pieces from the issue, our ULV Undergrad Writing Contest Prize Winner was announced, and issue contributors Brent Armendinger and Meagan Cass read from their own works. It was a great time! (The one flaw in the launch was the awful realization that we’ve left one our best staffers off the staff-list inside the issue — so when you read Prism #13, remember that our own Margo Cash helped as much as anyone. In fact, she went above and beyond by conducting and contributing an interview with the stupendous Lucy Corin that you can read right here.)
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(Brent Armendinger, contributor; Margo Cash, Venice Torres, DeAntwann Johnson, Rebecca Ayala, staff; Meagan Cass, contributor)
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We’ve also posted plenty of information (including samples and purchase info) from Issue Thirteen. Check it out!
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2011 PRISM REVIEW PRIZES!
These were the winners of our 2011 fiction and poetry prizes, as chosen by our fantastic and kind judges, Lucy Corin and Craig Santos Perez.
Poetry: Mary Ann Davis, “From the Sublunary Year”
Fiction: Becky Margolis, “Weatherization”
Head over to our Contests page to see winner bios, judges’ comments, and excerpts from the winning pieces.
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Past Events:
2010 ULV Writers Harvest
On a fall Saturday in November, seven renowned Los Angeles-area writers visited ULV for a benefit reading that was, really, as good a reading as we at Prism have ever seen. Anywhere. The excellent authors were Aimee Bender, Ralph Angel, Tony Barnstone, Ching-In Chen, Richard Lange, Jen Hofer, and Larry Fondation . . . and collectively, they absolutely rocked the house.
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West Hollywood Book Fair
Last September 26, we rolled out to the WeHo Book Fair to promote the journal. This was unfortunate, as the 26th was the second-hottest day in the recorded history of Los Angeles. We sweated. Lots.
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Issue #12 Launch Party
To celebrate Prism Review #12, we had our launch party on Thursday, May 13, 2010, at the Harris Art Gallery. The reading featured La Verne writing faculty and Prism staff editors reading their favorite works in the issue, and two contributors, poet Richard Luftig and fiction writer Larry Fondation (winner of the 2008-2009 Isherwood Prize) read their own pieces. Check out choice samples from the issue.