Our annual Creative Non-fiction Contest is officially open for submissions. We look forward to reading your best true stories—from essays to memoirs, to literary journalism and beyond!
We are delighted to announce that Marcos Gonsalez is this year’s contest judge.
Marcos Gonsalez is a queer Mexican Puerto Rican memoirist, essayist, and assistant professor of literature. Their debut blended memoir, Pedro’s Theory, published in 2021, has been reviewed by The New York Times and Kirkus. Gonsalez’s essays can be found at Literary Hub, New Inquiry, Catapult, Black Warrior Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Public Books, and elsewhere.
Their scholarly and creative work centers on queer of color anti-colonial imagining and sensibility, speculative poetics, and autotheory. They live in New York City and can be found on Twitter at: MarcosSGonsalez.
Click here to read our rules and regulations and to submit!
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 contact promotions@prismmagazine.ca by the deadline for to arrange a free contest entry.
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 a free contest entry.
As always, we encourage submissions from writers of colour, writers with disabilities, LGBTQQIA writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups.