Happy New Year! We’re so pleased to announce the longlist for our 2019 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize.
Please join us in congratulating these twelve incredible poets and their longlisted poems!
“Sea Rye Sing” by Jennifer Dickieson
“Jungle, At Voltage” by Hari Alluri
“why the sex addict is a porkchop preteNDN” by Cody Caetano
“Inheritance” by Danielle Aftias
“Grade School” by ren hlao
“The Spring of Grade Nine” by Colleen Baran
“You Just Lie There” by Colleen Baran
“Looking for Jade Rabbit” by Alice Turski
“Meanwhile” by Patrick Grace
“what’s your bodypolitik?” by Lou Garcia-Dolnik
“back alley romance” by Cooper Skjeie
“PRO CREATION” by Paola Ferrante
“wealth distribution will not be considered in the economic reform” by xiao yue shan
Thank you to all the writers who generously shared their work with us this time.
Stay tuned for our shortlist and winners, as chosen by Katherena Vermette.
P.S. Our next contest, the Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction, judged by Kristen Arnett, is closing on January 15, 2020. Get on it!