Hello all! I’m excited to introduce this new online segment, “From the Archives,” where we’ll share and celebrate some selected pieces from the PRISM archives. To start us off, I’ve selected Kyle Okeke’s “Gate of Wonder,” 2nd runner-up for...
We are excited to share Jason JS Barton’s short story, “Maury’s Lake”. This piece was the Runner-Up Prize Winner of the 2024 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction. Judge Jackie Ess had this to say about the short story:...
We are excited to share Nolan Natasha’s short story, “Ambrosia.” This piece was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction. Judge Jackie Ess had this to say about the short story: The winning...
PRISM international is proud to announce the winning pieces from our 2024 Jacob Zilber Prize along with Jackie Ess’s judge’s essay. Jackie Ess is a novelist, a teacher, and a person figuring it out. So far this has meant...
We are excited to share Murgatroyd Monaghan’s poem, “Thumbs.” This piece was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. Judge Mercedes Eng had this to say about the poem: The winning poem, Murgatroyd Monaghan’s “Thumbs,”...
PRISM international is proud to announce the winning pieces from our 2023 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize along with Mercedes Eng’s judge’s essay. Mercedes Eng is a prairie-born poet of Chinese and settler descent living in Vancouver on the unceded...