Hello readers! I am honoured to share with you the second runner-up of the 2026 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction, “SchoolBoi” by Cletus Okoro! This story’s distinctive and lyric voice will immediately pull you into its world, tracing...
Hello readers! Just in time for autumn, I am pleased to introduce you to the runner-up of the 2026 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction: “Trespasses” by Matt Hawkins. This speculative piece, equal parts hilarious and monstrous, will keep...
Hello again readers and happy autumn! For this year’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest, we had the honour of working with Gabrielle Drolet as a judge for our shortlist (read anonymously)! In this judge’s essay, she discusses our three winning pieces:...
“This book does remind you that even a puddle is a portal, a body of water that holds meaning, life, and an alternative universe.” Dear Readers, I am pleased to share this new interview with you all! Our poetry...
I am pleased to (belatedly) share the second runner-up for the 2025 Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms, Henry Osborne’s God’s County! This piece takes us on a journey past the end of the road, urging us...
Back in the spring, during my first weeks as prose editor for PRISM, I was working in our office when I found myself distracted by the big shelves of PRISM back issues dating all the way back to 1.1...
For this year’s Jacob Zilber Contest for Short Fiction, PRISM International was lucky enough to work with Molly Cross-Blanchard as a judge for our final shortlist. Molly was fair, thoughtful, and caring. Below is her judge’s essay about the...
I had the pleasure of meeting Emma when she presented at the CRWR Faculty & Alumni Showcase, sharing an art-and-movie-recommendations-filled presentation on the creative research that fuelled her debut novel, Afterbirth. (Thanks for the new additions to my Letterboxd!) ...
The first runner-up for the 2024 Pacific Spirit poetry prize, Michael Okafor’s I Keep Touching Myself To The Theory That The Bullet Is A Metaphysical Construct, lives up to the enormous promise of its name. This poem starts with...
