PRISM SHORT FICTION CONTEST ISSUE
JUDGE’S ESSAY
Nancy Lee
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
“Mavis Brown” by Gord Grisenthwaite
RUNNER-UP
“Caesar” by Ian Cockfield
FICTION
“Spirit Houses” by Katherine Cameron
“Entropy” by J.R. Myers
POETRY
“Sparrows” by John Pass
“House Sparrows” by Paul Tyler
“The Oracle at Truro” / “Pompeii” by Stephanie Yorke
“Little Sally Stand-up” / “First Trimester” by P.R. Barr
from “speech act” by Nikki Reimer
“spring breakup” by Gillian Wigmore
“Confessions of a Would-be Yogi” by Luisa A. Igloria
“Dry” by Rhonda Batchelor
“Don Quixote of the Estuary” by Dmitro Kremin translated from the Ukrainian by Svetlana Ischenko & Russell Thornton
“Bugle Ballad of a Home-Schooled Child” / “Sunrise with Seamonster” by Jeramy Dodds
“Tempur-Pedic Mattress” / “Leonard Cohen Concert, Douglas Mental Hospital, Montreal, 1970” by Matt Santateresa
from “Critical Incidents” by Elizabeth Bachinsky
“One of us is in a Mohawk cemetery” by Heather Cadsby
“The Fall” by Liz Dolan
“A-frame” / “Window Polishing” by Michael Eden Reynolds