PRISM Nonfiction contest
2011 – Jean McNeil, “Ice Diaries: a climate change memoir”
2010 – David J. Lawless, “My Father/My Husband”
2009 – Madeline Sonik, “Fetters”
2008 – Amanda Hale, “The Death of Pedro Ivan”
2007 – Trisha Cull, “Becoming Vegetarian”
2006 – Patrick Tobin, “Reunion”
2005 – Julie Vandervoort, “Counting Out Loud”
2004 – Russell Wangersky, “Ways of Seeing”
2003 – Russell Wangersky, “The Mechanics of Injury”
2002 – Marcello Di Cintio, “Lion Hearts”
2001 – Jenn Farrell, “Letters From The Pink Room”
PRISM Fiction contest
2010 – Erin Frances Fisher, “Bridges”
2009 – Eliza Robertson, “Roadnotes”
2008 – Laura Boudreau, “The Dead Dad Game”
2007 – Patricia Brieschke, “The Taste of Persimmons”
2006 – Gord Grisenthwaite, “Mavis Brown”
2005 – Deborah Willis, “Vanishing”
2004 – Melanie Little, “Wrestling”
2003 – Michael P. Kardos, “Mr. Marotta’s Ashes Have the Personality of a Grouchy Old Man”
2002 – Jane Eaton Hamilton, “Sperm King”;
2001 – Mark Anthony Jarman, “My White Planet” and David Derry, “The Ladder”;
2000 – Jean Harfenist, “Fully Bonded by the State of Minnesota”
PRISM Poetry contest
2010 – Pamela Porter, “My Father in his garden, depicted in the woodblock print of the Taisho dynasty”
2009 – Joelene Heathcote, “Owl on the Roof”
2008 – Michael Eden Reynolds, “Aleph-nought”
Earle Birney Prize for Poetry
2011 – Lorna Crozier – “Duet” 49.3 (chosen by andrea bennett)
2010 – Sue Goyette – “The New Mothers” 48:3 (chosen by Liz Ross)
2009 – Sue Sinclair – “Cherry Trees” 47:4 (chosen by Crystal Sikma)
2008 – Eleonore Schönmaier – “Migrations” 46:1
2007 – Joan E. Bauer – “Sleepers” 45:3
2006 – Sheri Benning – “Descent from the Cross” 44:2
2005 – warren heiti, “agriope to Persephone” 43.3
2004 – Esther Mazakian, “Her Seminal Texts” and “ Ravish Me in Jackets Red Hyacinth White Your Small Hands of Rain”
2003 – Chris Hutchinson, “Disclosure”
2002 – Tim Lander, “How They Made a Man of Me”;
2001 – Sandy Shreve, “Elles (Henri de Toulose-Lautrec, 1896)”
