PRISM’s 2012 contests are now closed. Congratulations to the shortlisted writers, and to everyone who won this year! We will be opening our 2013 contests on May 8, 2012.
Fiction Contest 2012 Shortlist
“Canary” by Nancy Jo Cullen
“In the Foothills” by Andrew Forbes 2nd Runner up
“The Man Who Fell in Love with his Cello” by Heather Jessup
“All This, and Heaven Too” by Amanda Leduc
“The Lights on Canada Day” by Susan Mersereau 1st Runner up
“Ms Pacman” by Josie Sigler Grand Prize Winner
“Stakeout” by Hal Walling
“Shame Cycle” by Theodore Wheeler
“Quarry” by Thomas E. Winningham III
“Juvenile” by Clea Young
Poetry Contest 2012 Shortlist
“Endometriosis” by Ashley-Elizabeth Best
“In Last Chance, California” by Rochelle Hurt
“here” by Cynthia Oka
“how to explain pictures to a dead simulacra” by Sandy Pool
“the answer” by Sandy Pool
“Ghazal of Perpetual Motion” by Kyeren Regehr 1st Runner up
“Love after the Pepsi Generation Ad” by Daniel Renton
“Self-Portrait” by Susan Steudel Grand Prize Winner
“Toward a List of Definitions According to my Scottish Mother” by Patricia Young 2nd Runner up
Nonfiction Contest 2012 Shortlist
“Something as Big as a Mountain” by Jane Cawthorne 1st Runner up
“Rules of Play” by Katie Fritz 2nd Runner up
“You Want a Social Life with Friends” by Courtney Gillette
“Eviction Day” by Eryn Hiscock
“Home Field” by T.W. Laing
“Ice Diaries: a climate change memoir” by Jean McNeil Grand Prize Winner
“The Skeleton Coast” by Jean McNeil
“End of the Rope” by Jan Redford
“Pick” by Jenna Spearing
“Kerosene: a Love Story” by Ayelet Tsabari
“Snapshots” by Sarah Turner
Look for the Nonfiction contest winners in PRISM 50.3 and the Fiction and Poetry contest winners in PRISM 50.4!
Want to know who’s won PRISM’s contests in previous years? Check out our previous PRISM contest winners page.
