CREATIVE NON-FICTION CONTEST JUDGE’S ESSAY Voice – Jonathan Kemp NON-FICTION GRAND PRIZE WINNER How to Dig a Ditch – Antonia Crane NON-FICTION RUNNERS-UP It Wasn’t Weakness – Emily Casali Feral – Kat Savino FICTION Movin’ It – Chee Brossy Field Notes on Grief – Sarah Kabamba Homecoming – Christina Cooke NON-FICTION Reflections – Zoe Power […]
Featuring the winners of the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize 2018.
Features the winners of PRISM’s 2017 Non-Fiction Contest.
PART I “Nest” by Mita Mahato “Self-Examination” by Kasumi Parker “Viet Minh Doctor In “The Forest of Darkness”, 1970” by Jess Tran “Rostam” by Dariush Ghaderi and Arman Kazemi “Mother Bear” by Megan Callahan “black bear (bearberus)” by Moon_Patrol “ring memory” by Amanda Proctor “New Monster” by Moon_Patrol “Visual Puns” by Anne Riesenberg PART II […]
CONTENTS Judge’s Essay on the Jacob Zilber Prize by Mercedes Eng part i: flora & fauna “At the Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park” by Zhang Ruihe “The Great Minnesota Get-Together” by Ginger Ayla “TAINTED” by Jewo Oghenetega “Downstairs the Ocean” by Clara Pratt “Confined to her Seabed, Ariel Considers the Abled World” by Hannah […]
CONTENTS PART I “told names” Morgan Christie “sweet bows” Morgan Christie “Photographs” Zehra Naqvi “Living Time” Jin-Me Yoon “Accuracy Exercises” Mark Foss “Language is Thankless Service” Samuel Samba “pîkokonêwêpayiw” Jesse Desjarlais “Joy Tales 1” Peter Olude “here you are living” jj peña PART II “Honouring the Feather and the Fiddle” Heather Simeney MacLeod “Oceanleaving” […]
CONTENTS PART I. HAUNTINGS “Trick Walls” Emily Pegg “Winning” Kayla Czaga “This” Ana Rodriguez Machado “Ghost” Sandra Huber “Ms. Vee” Francis Walsh “Lawful” Elisabeth Murawski “Collective Bargaining” Oksana Maksymchuk PART II. TENDERNESS “Being Beside The Arabian Sea Through Quiet Hours” Sneha Subramanian Kanta “peaches for Linda” kjmunro “Because We Buy Oat Milk” Glenna Turnbull “Jacaranda […]
CONTENTS “groceries arrive at the light station” Tazi Rodrigues “(coming out to) baba” Courtney WZ “my daughter is an esl teacher” Yasmina Jaksic “Czech is a Difficult Language” Alexandra Trnka “星星 (Xing Xing)” Lizzy Ke Polishan “Doxology” Katherine DeCoste “What Are You Doing Here?” Vicki McLeod “Jump Scare” Daniel Zomparelli “Let’s go around the table […]
CONTENTS part i. enchantment Marzia Grillo | End Credits | fiction | translated y Lourdes Contreras and Julia Pelosi-Thorp Pocholo Saldana | it’s about the house | poetry Liz Flud | Deer Season | poetryH Felix Chau Bradley | Life Inside the Sky | fiction Patrick Holian | La Futura | poetry Chasidy Gray | […]
CONTENTS part i. home “How to Lick the Tongue of Black Ice” Destiny Pitters “The House” Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho “Inheritance” Hava Zitlalik “Undone” Hava Zitlalik “Further Proof of Second-class Status within the Empire” Moni Brar “my mother hands me landscapes” Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi “the psychedelia of discovery” Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi “Linden” Leanne Charette “Taking the […]
CONTENTS non-fiction Vinh Nguyen “Waiting, Resolution” fiction Kelly Pedro “People Are Not That Honest” Robert McGill “Your Puppy Meets the World” Dylan Fisher “The Boys” Candice May “Dad as House” Alison Stevenson “In the Garden” Jeremy Colangelo “Consolation of the Cat-Sitter” poetry Anne Baldo “the secrets of monsters” Sage Ravenwood “Triskaidekaphobia” Glenn Shaheen “Jumping from […]
CONTENTS menagerie Tammy Armstrong “Tiger and the Midnight Man” Farah Ghafoor “Domestic Animals” Courtney Bates-Hardy “A Lepidopterist Speaks to the Shobijin” Matthew Pitt “How Forever It Feels” echoes Noel Cheruto “The Greatest Orkoyot” Suphil Lee Park “Left Angel, Right Devil” Meaghan Rondeau “Self-Portrait of the Author Fucking with Linear Time While Making No Love at […]
CONTENTS judge’s essay Marcos Gonsalez “Judge’s Essay” non-fiction Emma Zimmerman “Translation” Daniel Kessel “Notes from Encampment” Ronaldo Acuna “Fathers” Jess Taylor “Pelvis” fiction Judith Pond “Pictures” Tehila Hakimi “Relocation” Trans. Joanna Chen poetry Janette Platana “This is where she showed me the weed for washing hair” Antony Fangary “Psalm 47” Camille Lendor “there are Two […]
CONTENTS w o n d e r Vivian Li & Emily Chou “Letter from the Editors” grouse grind lit prize for v. short forms “Most Nights” – Suzannah Showler “Pretext” – Moni Brar “What Are the Ethics of Picking a Stinging Plant?” – Delani Valin non-fiction “Ganga” – Sarmista Das fiction “How You’ll Feel […]
CONTENTS judge’s essay “Who Said Curiosity Killed the Cat? Or, stories that take us.” by Téa Mutonji fiction “Lady” by Zilla Jones “Ada and Jezz” by Cara Marks “Slide” by Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick “Street Signs” by Joelle Kidd “Ugly” by Amorina Kingdon “The Coca-Cola Baby” by Jessica Bloom poetry “actually babylon of the whore” by […]
CONTENTS judge’s essay Ariana Brown “What Does the Poem Ask of Me?” s c a b Tanvi Bhatia & Emily Chou “Letter from the Editors” fiction Emily Johnson “Good Friends” Jessi Lewis “Simmer” Corinna Chong “the snare. the arm. the guinea pig. the bottle. the bus. the night.” non–fiction Felix Wong “Shall We Talk” R. […]
Caragana Ennis's "A Bird-Shaped Hole in History," Fríða Ísberg's "Profile" translated by Larissa Kyzer, Eliamani Ismail's "Ohio, Angelique Stevens's "Ghost Bread," Stacey May Fowles's "Like a Branch From a Tree in a Storm," Joshua Whitehead's "Me, the Joshua Tree," [...]
judge Kristen Arnett's essay "Reimagining Place," Kate Finegan's "Bears and Other Beasts," Joseph Pearson's "An Iconostasis," Susie Taylor's "Vigil," Paulette Jonguitud's "Running to Stand Still," Laura Clarke's "Pothos," Alisha Dukelow's "The Jellyfish," Dominik Parisien's "Open letter to an unknown sibling," Rhiannon [...]
judge’s essay “So Many Individual Units of Love and Meaning, or Judging Poetry Contests is F*cking Hard,” Katherena Vermette maps “Lady with the big head chronicle,” Angélique Lalonde “I Could Almost Mistake this Gold Peninsula for Gospel,” Amy M. Alvarez “Lancashire North West England” and “Six Months in Preston,” Caroline McDonald “rubber,” Cassandra Blanchard “back […]
judge’s essay “Memory,” Sharan Dhaliwal fiction “The Year of the Monster,” Tara Stillions Whitehead “Plastic,” Christine Ottoni “Which of the Following,” Randy Magnuson non-fiction “Dead Languages Or The What,” Jonathan Wei “Half Scissor,” Tabitha Siklos “And Begin,” Rachel Lindley-Maycock poetry “Aubade after Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore’s Le Mystère d’Adam,” Cassandra J. Bruner “Easy Metaphor,” […]
corporeal “Antiquing in Vermont,” Anne Stone + Wayde Compton “What Is a Body If Not,” John Elizabeth Stintzi “The Patron Saint of Butchers is also the Patron Saint of Surgeons and Abortions,” Dessa Bayrock “Small Talk,” Nicole Melanson “Late Nights,” Hannah Green numeral “The Moment,” Stefani Nellen “The Fourth Region of a Venn Diagram is […]
