SHORT FICTION CONTEST
A $2000 grand prize is awarded to the best original, unpublished story (maximum 25 double-spaced pages) and the winner receives publication payment in the Fiction Contest Issue! Three runner-up prizes of $200 dollars are also conferred. Works of translaton are eligible.
This year's judge will be announced shortly.
The entry fee is $28 for one story, and $7 for each additional story. All entrants receive one 1-year subscription to PRISM international.
Anyone who has taken a UBC creative writing course within the previous two years is ineligible to enter.
Please take a look at our contest form for more details, and include our contest form with your submission.
For credit card payments, please use our online form here.
Contest Deadline: February 15, 2010
Download an entry form and guidelines
(705KB - requires Adobe Reader).
POETRY CONTEST
$1000 is awarded for the best original, unpublished poem and the winner receives publication and payment in our upcoming Poetry and Fiction Contests Issue. $300 and $200 for runners-up. Works of translation are eligible.
Entries may include up to three poems, and additional poems are $7 each. All entries receive one 1-year subscription to PRISM international.
This year's poetry judge is Rhea Tregebov, author of six critically-acclaimed books of poetry, her most recent being (alive).
Anyone who has taken a UBC creative writing course in the previous two years is ineligible to enter.
Contest Deadline: February 15, 2010
Download an entry form and guidelines
(717KB - requires Adobe Reader).
Please Note: PRISM does not accept submissions from students and faculty of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Program (this includes the UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program). In order to submit, UBC alumni cannot have taken a UBC Creative Writing Program course during the previous two years.
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