We’re excited to share our first issue of the new year with you! Issue 58.2 features two finalists of our 2019 Creative Non-fiction Contest: “Half Scissor” by Tabitha Siklos and “And Begin” by Rachel Lindley-Maycock. The cover photo, “Playland,”...
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”...
Exciting news! “Pooka” by Angélique Lalonde, published in PRISM 56.4, has won the 2019 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. The Journey Prize is Canada’s top recognition for short fiction by emerging writers. The Journey Prize jury, Carleigh...
It’s that time of year again! PRISM’s annual Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction is now open for submissions. The prize is named for Jacob Zilber, who played a central role founding the University of British Columbia’s department of...
Sprawl. We love the onomatopoeic quality of this word. To spread, to be without boundary, to reach outside oneself, unapologetic. Imagine unfolding prairies, the slouch of city streets, the smoky silhouette of mountains beyond mountains. What stories reverberate home;...
Spooky season is here—and so is the latest issue! The poetry and prose in 58.1 FIGURES show us shapes that manifest, charm, defy, and arouse. You heard that right! As written by editors Molly Cross-Blanchard and Emma Cleary, “We...
The Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize deadline is just around the corner! Kate Black caught up with Katherena Vermette, this year’s contest judge, to talk truth and poetry and what she’s looking for in a winning entry. Katherena is a...
We’re so pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Creative Non-fiction Contest, as chosen by judge Sharan Dhaliwal. As Sharan writes, “with each of these submissions, we are taken on their journeys in a way that serves only...
And without further ado, here’s our shortlist for our annual Creative Non-fiction contest: Tabitha Siklos, “Half Scissor” Barbara Tran, “Peerless” Shelley Pacholok, “The Body Does not Flee” Rachel Lindley-Maycock, “And Begin” Jonathan Wei, “Dead Languages or The What” We’ll...