Prism International

Prizes: $1,500 grand prize, $600 runner-up, $400 2nd runner-up.

- Not open to students or faculty of the University of British Columbia’s creative writing program (this includes the UBC optional residency MFA program). This also includes incoming students that have accepted a place in UBC’s creative writing program. In order to enter, UBC alumni cannot have taken a UBC creative writing program course during the previous two years.

- Winners of last year’s contest (grand prize, first runner-up, and second runner-up) must wait a year before entering the contest in the category for which they won

Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize

$1,500 grand prize, $600 runner-up, $400 2nd runner-up.

Entry fee: $35 Canadian entries; $40 US entries; $45 International entries (includes a one-year subscription or extension)

No entry fee for Black and Indigenous submitters

"Not open to students or faculty of the University of British Columbia’s creative writing program (this includes the UBC optional residency MFA program). This also includes incoming students that have accepted a place in UBC’s creative writing program."

1-3 poems (100 lines maximum each) per entry.


Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize

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