Call for Submissions: PRISM International

PRISM international publishes exciting, original, literary material from established and emerging writers in Canada and around the world. A good deal of our content is generated from our annual fiction, poetry, short forms and creative non-fiction contests. Please visit our contest page for more details.

We accept submissions year-round. Due to the high volume of submissions we receive each month, reply times range between two to six 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incoming students prior to their acceptance to the UBC Creative Writing Program, if still under consideration, must be withdrawn.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.

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

We strongly prefer online submissions, as we do not accept email submissions. We charge a $3.00 reading fee per submission. Writers for whom the $3.00 fee is prohibitive are welcome to contact us directly about alternative methods of submission.

Please submit to only one genre at a time, and await a reply before submitting again. See the particular guidelines for each genre below.

Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, and paginated. Please specify the genre of your submission in your cover letter. All submissions should be set in Times New Roman, 12-point font.

Include in your cover letter your full contact information (including 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 $30/printed page for prose and $40/printed page for poetry. Contributors will receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears. 

We encourage submissions from 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