Hello readers! I am honoured to share with you the second runner-up of the 2026 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction, “SchoolBoi” by Cletus Okoro! This story’s distinctive and lyric voice will immediately pull you into its world, tracing...
Hello readers! Just in time for autumn, I am pleased to introduce you to the runner-up of the 2026 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction: “Trespasses” by Matt Hawkins. This speculative piece, equal parts hilarious and monstrous, will keep...
You’ve all been emailing us asking “please, please, how do we date casually?” We finally have the answer, after a fashion. Here’s M.L. Henderson’s “How To Date Casually,” 2nd runner up for Prism International’s 2025 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short...
We are excited to share Nolan Natasha’s short story, “Ambrosia.” This piece was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction. Judge Jackie Ess had this to say about the short story: The winning...
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...
Here are the shortlisted stories from The Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest judged by Heather O’Neill. We’re one step closer to naming our winners! Congratulations to our finalists and thanks to all who submitted. The Grouse Grind...
We’re excited and honoured to announce the winners of the first-ever Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction, as selected by Jess Taylor! Grand Prize Winner “The Boat, as it Happened” by Carol Matthews – Nanaimo, BC Carol Matthews has...
We’re excited to announce that the following stories have been longlisted for the first-ever Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction! We received a record-breaking number of submissions to this year’s fiction contest and it was an extremely difficult reading...
Jess Taylor, author of the short story collection Pauls from BookThug, is the judge of the inaugural Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction (full contest details here). Curtis LeBlanc, PRISM international‘s Promotions Editor, had the opportunity to pick her brain on a...