PRISM 47:2 WINTER 2009

2008 Literary Nonfiction Contest Issue

Interview with Contest Judge Patrick Lane

NON-FICTION
Grand Prize Winner
“The Death of Pedro Iván” by Amanda Hale

Runners-up
“Long Views Across Nothing” by Leah Bailly
“Salties and Lakers” by Terri Favro

POETRY
“The Hospital is for Sick Children” / “Smaller Narrative” by Nathaniel G. Moore
“Plato’s Cafe” by Daryl Sneath
“Migrant Workers” / “Full Rolling Boil” by Maureen Hynes
“Checklist” / “Observation” by Ann Scowcroft
“At Third Beach” / “A Few Lines in C Minor” by John Barton
“The Perfect Jaw” / “The Ministry of Kisses” by Julian Gobert
“Blindness: three poems on a theme” by Niels Hav, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken
“Guests” by Allison Blythe
“sump pump poem” / “Word on the Market (Light Sweet Crude)” by Christine Wiesenthal

FICTION
“Electric Clothes” by Lindsay McNiff
“The Giants in the Parkade” / “The Creation” by Franz Hohler, translated from the German by Jeff Kochan