PRISM international

Deadline: April 30, 2024

$500 Grand Prize, $150 Runner-Up, $50 Second Runner-Up

Judged by the PRISM Editorial Board.

Maximum word count: 300 words (including title). Please submit only one piece per submission. You may submit additional stories using the Additional Entry option for $5. 

Note: once an entry is received, no revisions will be allowed. Entry fees are non-refundable. Please ensure your entry meets the following guidelines before submitting.

PRISM international offers free entries for self-identifying Black and Indigenous writers for all our contests. Black and Indigenous writers are invited to submit using the appropriate Submittable links.  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 promotions@prismmagazine.ca to arrange contest entry. As always, we encourage submissions from writers of colour, writers with disabilities, LGBTQQIA writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups.

Rules & Regulations (please read carefully)

• The author’s name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript, the title or in the title that the file is saved under.
• Entries must be original, previously unpublished in print or online. PRISM will purchase First North American Serial Rights for all work accepted for publication.
• Entries should be formatted with size 12pt serif font (Times New Roman, Garamond, Georgia) and regular margins. Prose must be double spaced.
• Not open to students or faculty of the University of British Columbia’s creative writing program (this includes the UBC optional residency MFA program). This also includes incoming students that have accepted a place in UBC’s creative writing program. In order to enter, UBC alumni cannot have taken a UBC creative writing program course during the previous two years.
• Winners of last year’s contest (grand prize, first runner-up, and second runner-up) must wait a year before entering the contest in the category for which they won, but are welcome to enter either of our other categories. Other writers who made the longlist and/or the shortlist are still eligible to enter any category.
• Entrants must submit their entry under their real name, although they may publish under a pseudonym if they wish. Contestants who do not submit under their real name may be subject to disqualification.
• No images or photos should be included.
• Only use the “Additional Entry” category if you have already entered the contest in question and wish to enter again.
• No refunds will be made if an entry has been submitted to the incorrect category. Once an entry is received, no revisions will be allowed, and entry fees become non-refundable.
• PRISM international may contact you in future to inform you of future writing contests. We do not share information with any third parties. You can unsubscribe at any time.
• The grand prize entry will be published on PRISM's website.

 
Mailing entries: Due to temporary building closures on the University of British Columbia campus, PRISM will not be reading mailed submissions until further notice.