Written by Matt Cardinal. Do you keep a safe distance between your carrots and peas on a dinner plate? Do you get territorial over armrests on flights? What superstitions would you justify? What topics make you too stubborn to...
As our final judge’s announcement for the upcoming year of PRISM international writing contests, we’re proud to introduce Toronto-based writer Jess Taylor as the judge of the inaugural Jacob Zilber Prize For Short Fiction. Submit by January, 2017 for...
After much careful deliberation by our contest judge, Lee Maracle, we now have the winners of this year’s Short Fiction Contest. The competition was incredibly close and we received many high-quality entries—this made the adjudication process that much more...
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...