After reading through almost 400 pieces, the PRISM editorial team has chosen the top three winners of the Grouse Grind Literary Prize for V. Short Forms. All three winning pieces will be published in our Fall Issue, 59.1 VULGAR.
Without further ado, a big congratulations to Colleen, Mike, and Emily!
Grand Prize
“He Says, I’ve Been Rereading Bladerunner and the News and The Chrysalids and Twitter and The War of the Worlds -” by Colleen Baran
Colleen Baran is a Canadian artist, designer, and writer. Baran’s artwork has exhibited in museums and galleries in eleven countries and been published in a few more. Her poem-poems and visual-poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Berkeley Poetry Review, Always Crashing, New Delta Review, Midterm, Room, and the anthology Best Canadian Poetry 2019. Find her on Twitter at @ColleenBaran
First Runner-up
“Hiking is Just Walking Outside” by Mike Sholars
Mike Sholars is a writer living in Toronto, ON. After 10+ years in media and journalism, he is making his childhood self proud by (finally) letting himself become a creative writer. His articles on race, pop culture, technology, politics, and the intersection between them have appeared in publications such as HuffPost, Kotaku, Polygon, THIS Magazine, and VICE. After a lifetime of craving fiction with characters that look and act like the people in his life, he decided to just write it himself. Follow him on Twitter at @Sholarsenic
Second Runner-up
“Louise” by Emily Riddle
Emily Riddle is a nehiyaw iskwew and a member of the Alexander First Nation. She grew up in Edmonton, where she once again finds herself writing about women, governance, art and the romance of these all. Her writing has been published in the Teen Vogue, The Globe and Mail, Vice, Canadian Art, Prism International, among others. She is a library worker and researcher who is trying to spend more time writing both poetry and non-fiction in 2020 while remaining committed to reality tv and kombucha brewing. Find her on Twitter at @emilyjaneriddle
Please join us in congratulating our shortlist, longlist and these three top winners!
In the meantime, our Creative Non-Fiction Contest is open for submissions until July 31st!