PRISM international

PRISM international publishes exciting, original material from established and emerging writers in Canada and around the world. Due to the high volume of submissions, we receive each month, reply times range from 6 - 12 months, depending on the time of year. Please note: PRISM does not accept submissions from current and incoming students and faculty of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Program (this includes the UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program). Work submitted by incoming students prior to their acceptance to the UBC Creative Writing Program, if still under consideration, must be withdrawn. In order to submit, UBC alumni cannot have taken a UBC Creative Writing Program course during the previous two years. PRISM does not publish the same writer twice in a publication year. 

  SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 

• For contest entries, please refer to our contest page.
• Title the document with your first and last and last name. Example: FirstNameLastName.doc.
• Submit up to four poems, maximum of six pages. 
• We welcome cross-genre, hybrid, and interdisciplinary poetry and poetics.
• In your cover letter, please specify the number of poems you are submitting and list the titles of the poems.
• Poetry submissions should be typed and single-spaced. If you would like to submit poems with alternate spacing, please mention it in your cover letter and submit a PDF instead of a Word document.
• Include in your cover letter your full contact information (including email address) and a short bio.
• All submissions should be set in Times New Roman, 12-point font.
• We only accept online submissions via Submittable unless you are an incarcerated writer. We do not accept email submissions. We charge a $3.00 reading fee per submission. 
• Submissions must be previously unpublished, in print and online.
• We accept simultaneous submissions. If your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know immediately.
• We purchase first North American serial rights, and pay $40/printed page for prose and $45/printed page for poetry. Contributors will receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.
• The editorial board awards one $500 prize to an outstanding poetry contributor each year.
• We encourage submissions from Black and Indigenous writers, writers of colour, writers with disabilities, LGBTQIA2S+ writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups, including low-income earners. If you identify as one or more of the above and would like to let us know, please mention it in your cover letter.

PRISM international publishes exciting, original material from established and emerging writers in Canada and around the world. Due to the high volume of submissions, we receive each month, reply times range from 6 - 12 months, depending on the time of year. Please note: PRISM does not accept submissions from current and incoming students and faculty of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Program (this includes the UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program). Work submitted by incoming students prior to their acceptance to the UBC Creative Writing Program, if still under consideration, must be withdrawn. In order to submit, UBC alumni cannot have taken a UBC Creative Writing Program course during the previous two years. PRISM does not publish the same writer twice in a publication year.

  SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• For contest entries, please refer to our contest page.
• Title the document with your first and last and last name. Example: FirstNameLastName.doc.
• Submit up to approximately 4,000 words. While we accept prose submissions of up to 25 pages (6,250 words), we must emphasize that it is only exceptional pieces of this length that will receive publication.
• We welcome cross-genre, hybrid, and interdisciplinary prose.
• In your cover letter, please specify the length of the piece you are submitting and the title.
• Prose submissions should be typed and double-spaced. 
• Include in your cover letter your full contact information (including email address) and a short bio.
• All submissions should be set in Times New Roman, 12-point font.
• We only accept online submissions via Submittable unless you are an incarcerated writer. We do not accept email submissions. We charge a $3.00 reading fee per submission. 
• Submissions must be previously unpublished, in print and online.
• We accept simultaneous submissions. If your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know immediately.
• We purchase first North American serial rights, and pay $40/printed page for prose and $45/printed page for poetry. Contributors will receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.
• The editorial board awards one $500 prize to an outstanding prose contributor each year.
• We encourage submissions from Black and Indigenous writers, writers of colour, writers with disabilities, LGBTQIA2S+ writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups, including low-income earners. If you identify as one or more of the above and would like to let us know, please mention it in your cover letter.

Submit up to five black and white illustrations. Illustrations will share a page with a poem or piece of prose. 

PRISM international publishes exciting, original material from established and emerging writers and artists in Canada and around the world. We accept submissions year-round. Due to the high volume of submissions we receive each month, reply times range between 2 to 6 months, depending on the time of year. Please note: PRISM does not accept submissions from current or incoming students or faculty of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Program (this includes the UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program). Work submitted by incoming students prior to their acceptance to the UBC Creative Writing Program, if still under consideration, must be withdrawn. In order to submit, UBC alumni cannot have taken a UBC Creative Writing Program course during the previous two years. 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• For contest entries, please refer to our contest page.
• Please name submission files as such: FirstName_LastName (followed by the file format for example: .pdf/docx/etc.)
• Illustrations cannot have been published previously. 
• Include in your cover letter your full contact information (including your email address) and a short bio.
• We accept simultaneous submissions. If your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know immediately.
• We purchase first North American serial rights, and pay $40/printed page. 
• We encourage submissions from Black and Indigenous writers, writers of colour, writers with disabilities, LGBTQIA2S+ writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups, including low-income earners. If you identify as one or more of the above and would like to let us know, please mention it in your cover letter.