EXTENDED DEADLINE: Oct 31st, 2020 Our annual Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! We’re thrilled to have Ariana Brown as this year’s contest judge. Ariana is a queer Black Mexican American poet from the Southside of...
The following stories have been shortlisted for the 2020 Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms. In no particular order: “Elk Blue Rush” by Allison LaSorda “He Says, I’ve Been Rereading Bladerunner and the News and The Chrysalids...
We received so many amazing pieces of writing for this year’s contest. We’re excited and honoured to announce the winners of this year’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, as selected by Jonathan Kemp! You can read all three pieces in our Winter issue 57.2, so be sure to pick up a copy!
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We are incredibly delighted to announce the shortlist for our 2018 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Congratulations to all the writers on this list! We were deeply moved by your stories.
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We had so many wonderful submissions and would like to thank all writers who submitted to the the contest. We loved reading your work! Selecting just 16 pieces for the longlist was no easy task and as always all...
PRISM international is proud to announce the winner of the 2017 Earle Birney Poetry Prize is Lydia Kwa for her poem “Letter to My Former Selves” published in PRISM 56.1: Liminal, available now!
Earle Birney established UBC’s MFA program in Creative Writing in 1965–the first university program in Canada. The Earle Birney Poetry Prize, awarded annually and worth $500, is PRISM‘s only in-house prize. A very special thanks to Mme. Justice Wailan Low for her generous and ongoing support.
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We are delighted to announce the winners of the second annual Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms. The PRISM international editorial team has debated for hours and selected three winning entries. It was a tough decision with so...
Gregory Brown is the grand prize winner of our 2018 Grouse Ground Lit Prize for V. Short Forms! Read his winning piece, “Birdhouse,” and get it in print in our Dreams issue 57.1!
Jon Flieger is the second runner up of our 2018 Grouse Ground Lit Prize for V. Short Forms! Read his piece, “Calgary” below!