PRISM International ★Work published here has won or been selected for: Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Journey Prize Stories.
Open now for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, other work, and poetry.
Last checkedPRISM international is a Canadian literary magazine publishing contemporary writing from Canada and around the world by established and emerging writers.
Response time info: six to twelve months
Read the full guidelines at prismmagazine.ca↗Submission calls
Open to: Current and incoming students and faculty of the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing, including the UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program, may not submit; UBC alumni may not have taken a School of Creative Writing course during the previous two years.
General submissions are open for issue 65.2 until November 15, 2026. Submit one piece at a time; flash fiction under 1,000 words may include up to three pieces. Preferred length is 4,000 words or less.
Open to: Current and incoming students and faculty of the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing, including the UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program, may not submit; UBC alumni may not have taken a School of Creative Writing course during the previous two years.
Flash fiction under 1,000 words may be submitted as up to three pieces in a single document. General submissions are open for issue 65.2 until November 15, 2026.
Open to: Current and incoming students and faculty of the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing, including the UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program, may not submit; UBC alumni may not have taken a School of Creative Writing course during the previous two years.
Creative non-fiction and literary essays are accepted; rhetorical, academic, and strictly journalistic non-fiction are not. Non-fiction under 1,000 words may include up to three pieces in a single document. General submissions are open for issue 65.2 until November 15, 2026.
Open to: Current and incoming students and faculty of the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing, including the UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program, may not submit; UBC alumni may not have taken a School of Creative Writing course during the previous two years.
Translations into English are accepted from around the world. Poetry translations pay $45 CAD per printed page to the translator and $30 CAD per printed page to the original author; prose translations pay $40 CAD per printed page to the translator and $25 CAD per printed page to the original author, up to $200 CAD. General submissions are open for issue 65.2 until November 15, 2026.
Open to: Current and incoming students and faculty of the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing, including the UBC Optional-Residency MFA Program, may not submit; UBC alumni may not have taken a School of Creative Writing course during the previous two years.
Submit up to four poems, to a maximum of six pages; do not submit six one-page poems. Cross-genre and interdisciplinary poetry and poetics are welcome. General submissions are open for issue 65.2 until November 15, 2026.
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