EXTENDED DEADLINE: Oct 31st, 2020
Our annual Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize is now open for submissions!
We’re thrilled to have Ariana Brown as this year’s contest judge. Ariana is a queer Black Mexican American poet from the Southside of San Antonio, Texas. She is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes and a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion. Ariana’s work investigates queer Black personhood in Mexican American spaces, spirituality, and healing. In January 2020, Ariana released Sana Sana, her debut poetry chapbook from Game Over Books. She has also recorded a digital EP titled LET US BE ENOUGH, available on Bandcamp.
Ariana has performed her work and led writing workshops across the country at venues such as the San Antonio Guadalupe Theater, Harvard University, Tucson Poetry Festival, and the San Francisco Opera Theatre. When she is not onstage, she is probably eating an avocado, listening to Ozuna, or validating Black girl rage in all its miraculous forms. Follow Ariana on Twitter and Instagram.
Click here to read the rules and submit!
Prizes:
$1,500 grand prize
$600 runner-up
$400 2nd runner-up
$100 shortlist
Check out our past winners here: 2019, 2018, 2017
Free Entries
PRISM international offers free entries for self-identifying Black and Indigenous writers for all our contests. Black and Indigenous writers are invited to contact promotions@prismmagazine.ca by the deadline for to arrange a 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 contest entry. As always, we encourage submissions from writers of colour, writers with disabilities, LGBTQQIA writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups.