PRISM has a total of four recurring contests: our annual Creative Non-Fiction contest, The Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, The Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction and The Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms. Each contest is open to all writers, international and Canadian. For contest details visit the respective contest pages.
All 1st prize winners will be published in PRISM, and runners-up will be published at the discretion of the editors. All other entries will be considered for publication as regular submissions (for the possibility of publication in other issues of PRISM).
In addition, the Earle Birney Prize for Poetry is presented each year to one outstanding poet published in the magazine.
PRISM international is offering free entries for self-identifying Indigenous writers for our all our contests. Indigenous writers are invited to submit by emailing assistant@prismmagazine.ca by the deadline.
We also have a number of free entries to offer to low-income writers, and we encourage writers for whom the contest entry fee is prohibitive to contact us at assistant@prismmagazine.ca to arrange contest entry. As always, we encourage submissions from writers of colour, writers with disabilities, LGBTQIA2S writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups.
CREATIVE NON-FICTION CONTEST
Contest OPEN 15th of May 2019
EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE : July 15th, 2019
$1,500 grand prize, $600 runner-up, $400 2nd runner-up
Entry fee: $35 Canadian entries; $40 US entries; $45 Int’l entries (includes a one-year subscription or extension)
Additional entry: $5 per piece
Max. word count: 6,000
THE PACIFIC SPIRIT POETRY PRIZE
Judge: TBC
Contest will open August 1st, 2019
DEADLINE: October 15th, 2018
$1,500 grand prize, $600 runner-up, $400 2nd runner-up
Entry fee: $35 Canadian entries; $40 US entries; $45 Int’l entries (includes a one-year subscription or extension)
Additional entry: $5 each piece
Up to three poems per entry (100 lines max per poem)
The Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction and The Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms are already closed for this year.