EXTENDED CONTEST DEADLINE: July 31st, 2020
Our annual Creative Non-fiction Contest is now open for submissions. Send us your best true stories—from essays to memoirs, to literary journalism and beyond!
We are thrilled to announce that Alexander Chee is this year’s contest judge. Alexander Chee is the author of the novels EDINBURGH, THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT, and the essay collection HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and an editor at large at VQR. His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, T Magazine, Tin House, Slate, Guernica, and Out, among others.
Click here to read our rules and regulations and to submit!
Check out our past winners: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
Free Entries
PRISM international offers free entries for Black and Indigenous writers. If you are a Black or Indigenous writer who would like to access free submissions, please email your submission and cover letter to promotions@prismmagazine.ca
We also have a number of free entries to offer to low-income writers, and we encourage writers for whom the contest entry fee is prohibitive to contact us at promotions@prismmagazine.ca to arrange contest entry. As always, we encourage submissions from writers of colour, writers with disabilities, LGBTQQIA writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups.