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...
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...
We are excited to share Aaron Rabinowitz’s essay, “Young Bird.” This piece is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 CNF Contest. Judge Suzannah Showler had this to say about the piece: The winning essay, “Young Bird,” impressed me...
PRISM international is proud to announce the winning pieces from our 2023 Creative Nonfiction Contest along with Suzannah Showler’s judge’s essay. Suzannah Showler is the author of two collections of poetry and a book of cultural criticism about The...
Written by Jaminnia R. States “Meditations on My Face” was the first runner-up in PRISM’s 2020 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Alexander Chee. To read the other winning essays, pick up a copy of Issue 59.2 from our online...
Word counts got you down? Our shortest-form contest is now open for submissions. The Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms is judged by PRISM’s editorial board. We’re ready to sink our teeth into your flash fiction, micro-memoir,...
Happy Saturday! We are so pleased to announce our longlist for the Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction. “An Iconostasis” by Joseph Pearson “Bears and Other Beasts” by Kate Finegan “Dayton” by AJ Strosahl “Dreaming in Search and Rescue”...
Polish up those poems! Our annual poetry contest is now open until October 31th, 2019 We are thrilled to have Katherena Vermette as this year’s guest judge. Katherena is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the...
We’re back with another exciting update: the Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms shortlist! We’ll be announcing the winners, as chosen by the PRISM editorial board, on Monday, July 15. Our Creative Non-fiction contest is closing the same day. Get on it!...