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 much talent to chose from and we would like to thank all writers who submitted their work.
Here are the winners (click of the title of the work to read it in full):
Grand Prize Winner
“Birdhouse” by Gregory Brown (Nanaimo, BC)
Greg Brown is a graduate of the University of North Carolina – Greensboro’s MFA program in Creative Writing and Memorial University of Newfoundland’s MA in English Literature. He’s the recipient of the UBC English Department’s Roy Daniells Memorial Essay Prize and his fiction and essays have appeared in Paragon, Postscript, Pulp Literature, Tate Street and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of Virginia’s Young Writers Workshop and at the Creative Writing for Children Society in Vancouver. He lives on Vancouver Island and is presently working on a short story collection.
First Runner-Up
“Melt” by Spencer Oakes (Vancouver, BC)
Spencer Lucas Oakes is a writer from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Emerge, Daily Hive, Shirley Magazine, Occulum Journal, Soft Cartel, The Ginger Collect, and elsewhere. With the Vancouver Whitecaps, he created and edited MAJOR, a print/online periodical focused on Canada’s soccer subculture. Spencer is currently enrolled in Simon Fraser University’s 2018 Writer’s Studio in Vancouver and is writing his first novel. He also works as a copywriter.
Second Runner-Up
“Calgary” by Jon Flieger (Windsor, ON)
Jon (Calgary, Windsor, Oxford) lives in Québec City and writes video games for Ubisoft. Because of course. Just of course.
He was previously published in Canadian Literature, Descant, The Malahat Review, filling Station, The Windsor Review, Rampike, The Capilano Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Matrix, The Mays collection of the best Oxford and Cambridge writing, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and others. Jon worked making books and magazines with Biblioasis, filling Station, The Windsor Review. He has books with Palimpsest, Black Moss, Zed. He is afraid of bees. He loves you.