Home > PRISM Online > Announcing the Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Longlist 2019

We are so very pleased to announce the longlist for this year’s Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction. We received so many wonderful entries and narrowing it down was no easy task. Congratulations to the shortlisted writers!!!!

Here are the twelve longlisted short stories:

In the Bowers by Alanna Scott, Edmonton, AB

Murmuration by Pamela Dillon, Conestogo, ON

A Dispensation of Angels by Heidi Garnett, Kelowna, BC

The Watcher and the Watched by Barbara Black, Victoria, BC

Lemons by Kate Hargreaves, Windsor, ON

Paul and DavidMargaret Watson, Toronto, ON

The Bunker by Christopher Spencer, Columbus, OH, USA

The Last Snow Globe Repairman in the World by Hsien Chong Tan, Vancouver, BC

Restaurant for Homesick Aliens by Hsien Chong Tan, Vancouver, BC

The Meantime by Zoë Johnson, East Lansing, MI, USA

Victory Day by Cassidy McFadzean, Toronto, ON

Toy Wonderland by Jenessa Abrams, New York, NY, USA