PRISM’s first big announcement of 2022: Our Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize winners, as chosen by contest judge Cecily Nicholson! A huge congratulations Miguel, Anna, and Alice!
Grand Prize
“Ways to Leave, or Waves” by Miguel Perez
Miguel Martin Perez (he/him) is a queer Afro-Dominican poet from Harlem and the South Bronx. He is an MFA alum from the University of California in Riverside and currently resides in Los Angeles. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Acentos Review, Raleigh Review, Santa Fe Writers Project, Beyond Words, and Riddled with Arrows.
First Runner-up
“To the End of Redaction” by Anna Lee-Popham
Anna Lee-Popham is an editor, poet, and writer living in Tkaronto (Toronto), Canada. She is the co-host of the Emerging Writers Reading Series, an editor at HELD Magazine, and an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. A recipient of the Janice Colbert Poetry Award, her recent writing has been published in Canthius and Autostraddle and shortlisted for the Fiddlehead Creative Nonfiction Contest.
Second Runner-up
“A Group of Sixty-Seven after Jin-Me Yoon’s A Group of Sixty-Seven, 1996” by Alice Turski
Alice Turski received her MFA from Cornell University, where she also taught creative writing and literature. A finalist for the 2021 Gatewood Book Prize, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Verse Daily, The Iowa Review, The Greensboro Review, Copper Nickel, Iron Horse Literary Review, and more. She has been awarded residencies from the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, the Anna LaBastille Memorial, and the La Napoule Art Foundation, and is currently a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of British Columbia.
A big round of applause for these amazing poets!
In other news, our 2022 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction is open for submissions until Jan 15th! Send us your finest stories under 4000 words!