Call for Themed Submissions: DREAMS
PRISM international is excited and pleased to announce the call for submissions for our next themed issue 57.1: DREAMS
The Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms is NOW OPEN
We are happy to announce that our 2nd Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms is now open for entry. $500 Grand Prize, $150 runner-up, $50 2nd runner-up. Max. word count: 300 words. Please submit only ONE piece per submission. Please...
How to Interview: For Beginners and Pros
Looking to prepare for your interview or brush up on some do’s and don’ts when interviewing? PRISM editorial assistant, Derrick Gravener, interviews poetry editor, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, to chat about the interview process. Shazia has interviewed authors such as André Alexis, Jonina Kirton, Thalia Field, and Jay Gamble, and shares steps for starting interviews as well as tried-and-true pro-tips.
CURRENT ISSUE: Winter 2018 56.2
Our newest issue 56.2 is hot off the press and full of amazing content! Get your own issue now! Contents Judge’s essay: Alicia Elliott – Strength in Survival Non-Fiction Grand Prize Winner Gwen Benaway – Between a Rock and a Hard Place Non-Fiction...
Get to Know: Cason Sharpe
Cover of Our Lady of Perpetual Realness, Cason Sharpe’s début story collection. Metatron, 2017. Interview by Kyla Jamieson Get to Know is an interview series designed to introduce you to our favourite writers and contributors by way of questions that...
2017 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize Winners!
We received so many amazing poems for this year’s contest. We’re excited and honoured to announce the winners of this year’s Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, as selected by Aisha Sasha John! You can read all three pieces in our Spring issue 56.3, so make sure to order a copy!
Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Extended until January 31!
This new year will be full of amazing things, and one of them is an extension to the Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest! The new extended deadline is January 31, 2018, so read up on what our...
The Story Behind The Story: The Decedent by Yuly Restrepo Garcés
Our winter issue will be arriving soon, and includes a story by Yuly Restrepo Garcés, a writer and professor at the University of Tampa. A MacDowell Fellow, Yuly is also the recipient of a VONA/Voices Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in Zone 3 and is forthcoming in Natural Bridge. Of her story, “The Decedent,” Yuly says:
I started to write “The Decedent” in May 2015, at the Ft. Lauderdale airport, during a seven-hour layover, though I had been thinking about it for at least a year before that. I wrote about twelve pages while I waited for my flight to Medellín, where I would spend the summer months visiting family and working on a rough draft of my novel-in-progress. The story itself is a convergence of several things I had been preoccupied with in the months before I started writing.
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2017 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize Shortlist!
Congratulations to the writers shortlisted for the 2017 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize contest! Check back soon for the winners announcement, chosen by this year’s contest judge, Aisha Sasha John!
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