Holy moly! Only two weeks (yes, that's fourteen days) left to send us your best creative non-fiction story.

Our judge this year is the illustrious Susan Olding, author of Pathologies. 

Fame and fortune await! The Grand Prize is $1500!

We graciously thank the University of British Columbia Bookstore, our ongoing sponsor of this prize.

Contest Deadline: November 30, 2009 (postmark date).

Please see our Contests page for more information and to download the entry form.

This year our fiction contest judge will be LINDA SVENDSEN!!!!

Linda Svendsen is the author of the critically acclaimed collection of linked stories, Marine Life. Her stories have been published widely in North America, and she has appeared three times in the O. Henry Awards Prize Stories and Best Canadian Stories.

The due date for the fiction contest is January 29th, 2010, so get to work!

Please see our contest page for more details.

We're pleased to announce that Sue Sinclair's poem "Cherry Trees" has been awarded the Earle Birney Poetry Prize.

Each year, the outgoing poetry editor chooses the winning poem. 2008/09 poetry editor Crystal Sikma says she chose the poem "for its quiet evocation of the metaphysical -- for the way it evokes the image of cherry trees in spring, in all their fleeting beauty."

"Cherry Trees" appeared in our summer issue (47:4) and is available for purchase here.

Excellent choice, Crystal, and congratulations, Sue!

Many thanks to Wailan Low, whose generous support keeps the PRISM poetry prize available.

We are thrilled to announce that Shawn Syms' story "On the Line," published in PRISM international issue 47:1, has been nominated for the prestigious Journey Prize. Congratulations Shawn and good luck!

Click here to read an interview with Shawn and former fiction editor Michelle Miller.

Have a truer-than-true story that you’re dying to share? We’ll believe every word you write, so sharpen your pencils! PRISM international’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest is now accepting entries.

Our judge this year is the illustrious Susan Olding, author of Pathologies. 

Fame and fortune await! The Grand Prize is $1500!!!!!!

We graciously thank the University of British Columbia Bookstore, our ongoing sponsor of this prize.

If you want to know which entries for the contest have succeeded in the past, please go to our previous winners in past issues, such as "The Death of Pedro Ivan," by Amanda Hale, which appears in PRISM (47:2). Or better yet, subscribe!

Contest Deadline: November 30, 2009

Please see our Contests page for more information.

Jennica Harper’s poem “Liner Notes” (issue 47:1) has won Silver in The National Magazine Awards Poetry Category. Congratulations, Jennica. You are super!

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Leah Bailly’s creative non-fiction article “Long Views Across Nothing," the runner-up in the 2008 PRISM non-fiction prize (Issue 47:2), has won the Alberta Writers’ Guild inaugural Amber Bowerman Memorial Travel Writing Award. Congratulations, Leah!!!!

It has come to PRISM international's attention that a small number of copies of 47:2 and 47:3 have misprints such as blank pages.

Please let us know if your issue of PRISM international has any print errors.  We will send you a replacement copy right away. 

We're proud to announce that Jennica Harper's poem "Liner Notes" has been nominated for a National Magazine Award.

"Liner Notes" first appeared in PRISM 47.1 (fall) and was also shortlisted for the 2008 CBC Literary Awards.

Lucky for you, we still have copies available. See our Issues page to order your copy.

Way to go, Jennica!