The following stories have been shortlisted for the 2017 Creative Nonfiction Contest! Check back soon for the winners announcement, chosen by this year’s contest judge, Alicia Elliott. 2017 Creative Nonfiction Shortlist “List of the Affected” by Emily Kellogg – Toronto, ON “It...
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, artist and member of Alderville First Nation. Her writing extends from scholarly work grounded in twenty years of Indigenous land-based education, and extends to genre-bending creative forms of poetry, song, and short stories. Her debut collection of stories and songs, Islands of Decolonial Love, was chosen by Thomas King for the 2013 RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. This Accident of Being Lost was released by House of Anansi Press in April 2017 and has just been shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. It is a spell-binding collection that shifts between lyric poetry and short stories using a fragmented, weaving narrative. From PRISM’s Executive Editor, Jessica Johns, are six reasons why reading This Accident of Being Lost will have you openly weeping in coffee shops and ignoring cute dogs at the farmers market.
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We’re excited to announce that the following stories have been longlisted for the 2017 Creative Nonfiction Contest! We received many great submissions for this year’s contest, and it was an extremely difficult reading process. Thank you so much to all of...
Are you looking to get into the review game? Are you a seasoned reviewer and want to hone your skills? Wherever you land on the review spectrum, PRISM has put together five simple starting-out steps to make the task of reviewing a book a little less daunting. Additionally, Carleigh Baker, author of Bad Endings and bad-ass reviewer for The Globe and Mail, shares some insider pro-tips.
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Reviewing the submissions we received in response to our new editorial team’s first call, “The Liminal,” a call intended to take what is often thought of as “marginal” and place it at the centre of our issue and our...
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the first-ever Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V(ery) Short Forms, as selected by the PRISM editorial team! We had so many amazing submissions from all genres for this inaugural contest. The winning piece of...
We’re so excited to announce that the following stories have been longlisted for the first ever Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V(ery) Short Forms! We were blown away by the number of submissions and the quality of writing in this...
Looking for a great nonfiction read this summer? Want some inspiration for your own writing? National Magazine Award winning writer and our Nonfiction Contest judge, Alicia Elliott, has a couple must-read recommendations to get you started!
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We are so pleased to announce Alicia Elliott as our Annual Nonfiction Contest judge! Alicia Elliott (@WordsandGuitar) is a Tuscarora writer living in Brantford, Ontario, where she worries she may one day die. Her writing has been widely...