Announcing the winners of the 2021 Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms!
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After reading through almost 300 pieces, the PRISM editorial team has chosen our top three winners of the Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms.
A huge congrats to Suzannah, Moni, and Delani!
Grand Prize “Most Nights” by Suzannah Showler
Suzannah Showler is the author of two collections of poetry and a book of cultural criticism about
The Bachelor. Currently living on the unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, she writes for magazines and does contingent labour teaching creative writing classes at the University of Ottawa. “Most Nights” is the antecedent of
The Malahat Review invites entries for its biennial
Long Poem Prize, for which two awards of
$CAN 1,250 each are given. The contest is open to Canadian and international writers anywhere in the world, with a deadline of 11:59pm (PST) on 5 February 2021. All entries are judged anonymously, and the two winning poems will be published in the magazine s summer 2021 issue. This contest is offered every second year, alternating with the
The Malahat Review’s contests have also won or been nominated for National Magazine Awards for Poetry and the Pushcart Prize.
Mailed or emailed contest submissions are no longer accepted. Please read the instructions below to find out how to
Nancy Lee’s first full-length poetry collection,
What Hurts Going Down, paints a landscape of rape culture that is both matter-of-fact and horrifying. The poems reveal this world through an array of personal recollections, second-person invocations, and third-person narrations, varyingly detached and vivid. Rape culture, or the normalizing of sexual aggression and exploitation, is a subject of visceral, if mundane, recollection: a hookup on a basement bear-skin rug (“Girl with Bear”), an encounter in “a bar by an off-ramp” (“Ms. Clairvoyant”). But it is also a sedimentation of echoing encounters that effortlessly parallel coming of age: “my childhood bed, the guest room / bed, the bed in my college dorm / and the futon in my first apartment” (“Analysis”).
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