We would like to congratulate all the authors who made the short and long lists. Thank you to everyone who trusted us with their work for the 2016 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Finally, congratulations to this year’s winner as chosen...
It’s been a week since we announced our longlist. Here are the eight pieces contending for the top three prizes! PRISM international’s 2016 Creative Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist “For J##” by Jessica Bebenek – Montreal, QC “Kiwi Grove” by Trish Cull...
After weeks of careful reading and deliberating over so many quality works of non-fiction, PRISM international is elated to announce the long list for this year’s CNF contest! These are the twelve pieces currently under consideration for the shortlist and the...
PRISM is please to present an excerpt our 2016 Short Fiction Contest winning piece, “You Can Do Better” by Taryn Pearcey. Taryn is a baker by day and a writer always. Her fiction has appeared in Maple Tree Literary...
Introduction by Chris Evans. PRISM 54.4 features the winners of our 2016 Short Fiction Contest, as chosen by contest judge, Lee Maracle—first place winner “You Can Do Better” by Taryn Pearcey, first runner-up “Montreal River” by Lesley Krueger, and...
PRISM international is excited and honoured to announce that Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke, will judge the inaugural Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. Submit your poems by October 15th, 2016 for a chance at the very first edition of this...
With another year of contests in the books we’re extremely excited to be opening our annual Creative Non-Fiction Contest for submissions once again! Note that this year’s contest will close a little earlier than in previous years—July 15th, 2016...
With PRISM international’s Poetry Contest nine days away, we thought we’d get Poetry Contest Judge Kayla Czaga to share her insights on poetry, but with a twist.* We’ve slotted in the word “poetry” into these questions posed to former pageant contestants. Click...