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Periodical literary magazine located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people (Vancouver, BC)

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📣Judge announcement!!📣 Introducing the wonderful Tracy Fuad, judging this year’s Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. Submit your best poetry by November 1st for the chance to have Tracy read your work!! Visit the link in bio for submission guidelines. by @prisminternational

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SUBMISSIONS OPEN!!🌟 We are seeking your boldest and most innovative poems for this year’s [unthemed] Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize! Read contest guidelines and send us your work at the link in bio🌀 by @prisminternational

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🌟CONGRATULATIONS to our winning writers!!!🌟 Read Gabrielle Drolet’s judge’s essay up on our website now, and stay tuned to read these wonderful pieces!! Huge thanks to everyone who submitted to this contest. by @prisminternational

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We are pleased to announce the shortlist of the 2026 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, as selected by our readers!! 🌟 Thanks to everyone who submitted! Winners will be announced very soon 🌀 by @prisminternational

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Join us for the launch of our 64.3 issue EARTHKEEPER on Oct 13th 🪲 Readings from the issue, drinks, mingling and open mic !

Event is free. Link in bio to RSVP + sign up for open mic.

Thanks to Red Gate Arts Society for hosting us! by @prisminternational

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🦈New on our website!!🦈 On Teeth and Translation: An Interview With Dora Prieto and Dani Rodríguez Chevalier. Poetry editor Ocean Wei discusses translation and bilingual works with the translators of JAWS [tiburón] by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza. 🌟 Read the piece at the link in bio! by @prisminternational

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NEW STAFF INTRO🌟 I’m so happy to introduce Esther, our new Managing Editor! (@strangestsister)

Esther Harvey is a writer and multidisciplinary artist from Toronto, traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Wendat, and other First Peoples. They write poetry and speculative non-fiction. Their work often explores themes of diaspora and mythology, and appears or is forthcoming in Riddle Fence, Half Mystic Journal, and elsewhere. They are on reasonably good terms with the ghost in their kitchen. by @prisminternational

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New on our website!! Editor to Editor: An Interview With Benjamin Wood. 🌟 Our prose editor, Brett Nelson, discusses editorial identities with Wood, as well as his latest Booker-nominated novel Seascraper. As always, read the full interview at the link in our bio! 🌀

(photo credit, Marc Sethi) by @prisminternational

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Please join us in welcoming our new executive promotions editor, Meg (@jellyfishfuneral)

Megan Horsthuis is a Canadian ecologist and MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia, currently living on stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ land. Her poetry is published in Dark Mountain and is forthcoming in Amsterdam Quarterly, paloma magazine, Bitter Magazine, the tiny journal and Fish Girl Collective. In her free time, she enjoys tide pooling and disappearing into the woods. by @prisminternational

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Calling all writers and visual artists!

PRISM International is now accepting submissions for our [unthemed] 65.2 issue!

We’re seeking bold, original voices in Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Visual Art, curated by our editors Ocean Wei and Brett Nelson.

We’re especially interested in work being produced outside of the traditional MFA/Academic milieu.

Deadline is November 15th, 2026

Check the guidelines and submit your work though link in bio or at: prisminternational.submittable.com/submit by @prisminternational

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Chat with our team and get your hands on some issues at @wordvancouver ❣️❣️❣️ by @prisminternational

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Congratulations to our shortlist and our winners, and thank you again to everyone who submitted!! 🫶 by @prisminternational

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