PRISM 48:3 SPRING 2010

2009 Literary Nonfiction Contest Issue

Judge’s Essay by Contest Judge Susan Olding

NON-FICTION GRAND PRIZE WINNER
“Fetters” by Madeline Sonik

INTERVIEW
Rachel Knudsen chats with author Madeline Sonik

FICTION
“Black Roses Bloom” by Bill Gaston
“Toast” by Matt Rader
“Summer, Winter, War” by Melinda Moustakis

POETRY
“Memo to a Self” / “Elegy for a Survivor” / “Dream of Full Waking” / “Life!” / “Sky Burial, the Scholar” by Steven Heighton
“Traveller” by James Pollock
“Memoir” / “The New Mothers” / “u-pick, a triptych” by Sue Goyette
“Bluegrass” by Rhona McAdam
“The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog” / “Intravenus” by Shane Rhodes
“Dogs of Montoya Street” / “Chamisa” / “Cormorant” / “Everybody’s Business” by Bren Simmers
“For you” / “Durham Falls” / “Grimsey Island” / “After the River Swelled” by Tammy Armstrong
“Parents” / “Steve Urkel on TGIF” / “Cautions” by Stephanie Yorke