PFN – Call for Submissions to PRISM international. Theme: Spells

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Submissions must be made through Submittable. We do not accept submissions via email or mail, except from incarcerated writers. For all other submitters, we charge a $3.00 reading fee per submission. Writers for whom the $3.00 fee is prohibitive are welcome to submit using the Inclusive Access option on Submittable.

Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, and paginated. Please specify the genre of your submission in your cover letter. All submissions should be set in Times New Roman, 12-point font.

Include in your cover letter your full contact information (including your email address) and a bio of 50 words or fewer that makes reference to where you live.

We accept simultaneous submissions, and we ask that you let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere, OR withdraw it from our Submittable. We purchase first North American serial rights and pay $40 per printed page for prose and $45 per printed page for poetry. Contributors also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.

We encourage submissions from Indigenous writers, writers of colour, writers with disabilities, LGBTQQIP2SAA+ writers, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups, including low-income earners. If you identify as one or more of the above and would like to let us know, please mention it in your cover letter.

PROSE GUIDELINES

• We accept fiction, creative non-fiction, and literary essays. We do not publish rhetorical, academic, or strictly journalistic non-fiction.
• Our preferred length for submissions is 4,000 words or less. We have a limited page count and aim to feature a variety of voices.
• Submit only one piece at a time, unless you are submitting flash fiction or non-fiction (under 1,000 words), in which case you may submit up to three pieces in a single document. Please wait to hear back before submitting again.

If you have any questions about these guidelines or a piece you’ve already submitted, please email Sierra Louie at prism.prose@ubc.ca.

POETRY GUIDELINES

• Submit up to four poems, to a maximum of six pages. Do NOT submit six one-page poems.
• We welcome cross-genre and interdisciplinary poetry and poetics.
• In your cover letter, please specify the number of poems you are submitting and list the titles of the poems.
• Poetry submissions should be typed and single-spaced. If you would like to submit poems with alternate spacing, please mention it in your cover letter and submit a PDF instead of a Word document.

If you have any questions about these guidelines or a piece you’ve already submitted, please email Ayda Niknami at prism.poetry@ubc.