Contests

The PRISM international 2012/2013 contest season is now … (**BANG** [dead duck falling]) … OPEN!

PRISM has a total of three contests: the Literary Non-Fiction, Short Fiction, and Poetry contests, open to all, and the Earle Birney Prize for Poetry, presented to one outstanding poet published in the magazine.

All contests: Each entry includes a one-year subscription or subscription extension for PRISM international, beginning with the contest issue (Spring 2013 for Non-Fiction and Summer 2013 for Fiction/Poetry). 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).

Please see below for details on each contest. Before you submit your entry, make sure you check out the beautifully-worded fine print (found on the paper entry form and on the online submission system)

If you have any questions, please contact prismwritingcontest@gmail.com.

                                                                                     

Literary Non-Fiction Contest

Deadline: November 28, 2012
Prize: $1500 grand prize, $300 runner-up, $200 2nd runner-up
Judge: Andreas Schroeder

 

Andreas Schroeder has made his living as a freelance writer for the past 43 years. In that time he has published 23 books, including Renovating Heaven, Shaking it Rough and Dustship Glory. His books have been finalists for the Governor-General’s Award (Shaking It Rough, 1976), the Sealbooks First Novel Award (Dustship Glory, 1984),  the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction (Cheats, Charlatans & Chicanery, 1998) and the BC Book Prizes’ Ethel Wilson Fiction Award (Renovating Heaven, 2008). He won a National Magazine Award in 1990, a Stephen Leacock Award in 1997, and a Canadian Association of Journalists’ Best Investigative Journalism Award in 1991.

Entry fee: $35 Canadian entries; $40 US entries; $45 Int’l entries (includes a one-year subscription or extension)
Additional entry: $5 each piece
Max. word count: 6000

There are two ways to enter:
1. Fill out our paper entry form and mail it along with your manuscript.
2. Submit online: (please note that a small charge applies to online entries to offset the fee charged by Submittable; also note that Submittable charges in USD)
Canadian entries
US entries
International entries
Additional entries

(PRISM gratefully acknowledges the support of the UBC Bookstore for their assistance in furnishing this prize.)

                                                                                     

Short Fiction Contest

Deadline: January 25, 2013
Prize: $2000 grand prize, $300 runner-up, $200 2nd runner-up
Judge: Annabel Lyon

 

Annabel Lyon’s first novel, The Golden Mean,  is a best seller in Canada and has been translated into six languages. It won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Lyon is also the author of the story collection Oxygen and the book of novellas The Best Thing for You.

Entry fee: $35 Canadian entries; $40 US entries; $45 Int’l entries (includes a one-year subscription or extension)
Additional entry: $5 each piece
Max. word count: 6000

There are two ways to enter:
1. Fill out our paper entry form and mail us your manuscript.
2. Submit online: (please note that a small charge applies to online entries to offset the fee charged by Submittable; also note that Submittable charges in USD)
Canadian entries
US entries
International entries
Additional entries

                                                                                     

Poetry Contest

Deadline: January 25, 2013
Prize: $1000 grand prize, $300 runner-up, $200 2nd runner-up
Judge: Rhea Tregebov

 

Rhea Tregebov is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently All Souls’, which will be released by Signal Editions/Véhicule Press in September 2012. Her poetry has received a number of awards, including the Pat Lowther Award for her first book, Remembering History, as well as The Malahat Review Long Poem Award, honorary mention in the National Magazine Awards, and the Prairie Schooner Reader’s Choice Prize.

Entry fee: $35 Canadian entries; $40 US entries; $45 Int’l entries (up to three poems may be submitted with each entry, each entry includes a one-year subscription or extension)
Additional entry: $5 each poem

There are two ways to enter:
1. Fill out our paper entry form and mail us your manuscript.
2. Submit online: (please note that a small charge applies to online entries to offset the fee charged by Submittable; also note that Submittable charges in USD)
Canadian entries
US entries
International entries
Additional poem

                                                                                     

ANNUAL EARLE BIRNEY PRIZE FOR POETRY

An annual prize of $500 is awarded by the outgoing Poetry Editor to an outstanding poetry contributor published in PRISM international. Enter by regular submission only: no fee required.

We thank Wailan Low for her continued support.