We announced our long list on Monday (here it is in case you missed it) and we know the suspense is killing you… So here is PRISM international’s Short Fiction Contest short list for 2016, in no particular order! Only...
We’re excited to announce the long list for our 2016 Short Fiction Contest! This year we received almost 450 entries from Canada, and around the world. Of these, fifteen were selected for the long list. Here is PRISM’s Short Fiction Contest long...
Phedra Deonarine was the Truman Capote Fellow in the Rutgers-Newark MFA in Creative Writing Program. Her work has appeared in The Indiana Review, MIEL, The Golden Key, and others. She is currently working on a short story collection, tentatively titled Fishing...
We’ve been pretty busy here at PRISM international this past month. If we’re not busy with the 2016 Poetry and Fiction Contests, we’re writing grants for the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council, two organizations...
In honour of #TranformationTuesday, I thought a writing prompt about transformations would be appropriate. This prompt can be approached several ways and depending on the genre. If you’re writing a poem, write down the word “transformation”. What does it...
In case you missed it, our 2016 Short Fiction Contest deadline has been extended to February 1st, so I figured a writing prompt for fiction would be appropriate. Often, I find it’s not a lack of ideas that I’m...
Frantic that you missed our extended deadline for the Fiction and Poetry Contests? Have no fear, the double extended deadline is here! Okay, cheesy, but your winning short story or poem won’t be! The new double extended deadline is...
Review by Adrick Brock Russell Smith’s latest collection of short fiction, Confidence (Biblioasis, 2015), catalogues the lives of Toronto’s has-been hipsters as they navigate the disappointments of their middle ages. Coolness is the philosopher’s stone in Smith’s world, and...
This week’s Tuesday Prompt is a throwback to one by former Executive Editor, Promotions Clara Kumagai. Since you’re working hard on sending in your entries to our 2016 Short Fiction Contest before the January 15th deadline, I thought this...