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Home > PRISM Online > Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction 2021 Winners!
We’re happy to announce the winners of this year’s Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction contest, as chosen by judge Téa Mutonji!
Grand Prize
by Zilla Jones
Zilla Jones is an African-Canadian lawyer, anti-racist educator, mother, singer and writer from Treaty 1 territory (Winnipeg.) She has been longlisted for the CBC short fiction competition, shortlisted for the Writers Union of Canada short prose competition and the Fiddlehead magazine short story competition, and won Honourable Mention in the Room magazine short fiction contest and first place in the GritLit festival short story contest. Her fiction has appeared in Prairie Fire magazine and is forthcoming in the Malahat Review, as the winner of the Open Season fiction contest. She is currently polishing her first novel.