After reading through almost 300 pieces, the PRISM editorial team has chosen our top three winners of the Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms.
A huge congrats to Suzannah, Moni, and Delani!
Grand Prize
“Most Nights” by Suzannah Showler
Suzannah Showler is the author of two collections of poetry and a book of cultural criticism about The Bachelor. Currently living on the unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, she writes for magazines and does contingent labour teaching creative writing classes at the University of Ottawa. “Most Nights” is the antecedent of Quality Time, a novel-in-progress about time theory, romance, cults, and raccoons.
First Runner-up
“Pretext” by Moni Brar
Born in rural India, Moni Brar is a writer, educator, and farmer who now gratefully divides her time between the unsurrendered territories of the Treaty 7 Region and the Syilx Okanagan Nation. Her writing explores the connections of time, place and identity in the immigrant experience, diasporic guilt, religious violence, and the legacy of trauma resulting from colonization. She believes in the possibility of healing through art and is inspired by writers who take an oppositional stance and work towards decolonizing western frameworks of culture and identity. Her writing has been published in Prairie Fire, Passages North, CV2, Vallum, Hobart, among others.
Second Runner-up
“What are the ethics of picking a stinging plant?” by Delani Valin
Delani Valin is a Cree-Métis writer on Snuneymuxw Territory in British Columbia. Her poems have been awarded The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize, subTerrain’s Lush Triumphant award, and have been nominated for a National Magazine Award. Her work has appeared in Arc Poetry, Room Magazine, Adbusters, Soliloquies Anthology, Those Who Make Us, and Bawajigaan, among others.
Please join us in congratulating our winners!
Don’t forget our Creative Non-Fiction Contest deadline has been extended to July 30/2021
We are so excited to have the lovely Marcos Gonsalez judging this year!
Marcos Gonsalez is a queer Mexican Puerto Rican memoirist, essayist, and assistant professor. 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, and elsewhere.
You can find them on on Twitter at: MarcosSGonsalez.
Enter the contest here: http://prismmagazine.ca/contests/