This is an in-progress, incomplete and, more than anything, very proud list of the successes of some of the authors we’ve published in Prism Review. We’re happy to note that basically all of these authors’ works came to us unsolicited via what most folks call ‘the slush pile,’ an entity we think needs a better label: to us, it’s not a pile of slush so much as an exciting doorway that leads us and our readers to new literatures and future issues.
(If you’ve been published in Prism and would like to be linked here, let us know.)
recent highlights:
- Maria Zoccala (issue 23) will have her debut collection Helen of Troy published in 2025 by Scribner
- Andrew Bertaina (20, 23) won the 2020 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award for One Person Away From You
- Carlos Andrés Gómez (21) had his collection Fractures published by U. Wisconsin Press; it was selected by Natasha Trethewey as winner of the 2020 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry
- Jaquira Díaz (13) had her acclaimed memoir Ordinary Girls published in 2019
- Zachary Kluckman (23) had his poetry collection Rearview Funhouse published this year by Eyewear Publishing Limited, an imprint of the Black Spring Press Group
- Lana Issam Ghannam (18) won the Swan Scythe Press chapbook contest for Evolution of Stone
- Heather Sellers (23) has a new poetry collection, The Present State of the Garden, out from Lynx House Press
- Sara Moore Wagner‘s (22) collection Lady Wing Shot won the 2022 Blue Lynx Prize and is forthcoming in 2024
- Bradley Bazzle’s (19) first story collection Fathers of Cambodian Time-Travel Science won the C&R Press Fiction Award
- Diane DeCillis’s (20) most recent collection When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double (Wayne State University Press, April 2021) was selected by Publisher’s Weekly as one of eight books for Weathering the Times: Poetry 2021
other past contributors:
- Brent Armendinger’s (13) second collection Street Gloss came out in 2019; his second, the Ghost in us was multiplying, came out from Noemi Press in 2015
- Bipin Aurora (13) had his collection Notes of a Mediocre Man: Stories of India and America published in March 2017, and has had numerous stories published in journals including Michigan Quarterly Review, The Common, and Southwest Review
- Cheyenne Avila (19) authored I Will Forget These Poems (2019)
- Dave Barrett’s (10) novel Gone Alaska was published in July 2019
- John Blair (21) is the author of multiple books including Playful Song Called Beautiful, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize
- Nora Boxer (13) received the $50,000 Keene Prize
- Michelle Chan Brown (12) won the 2011 Kore Press First Book of Poetry Prize for Double Agent and her second book, Motherland, with Wolves was published in 2015
- Darlene Campos (15) had her first novel, Behind Mount Rushmore, published in May 2017
- Meagan Cass (13) won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for her collection ActivAmerica
- Abby Chew (11) published her collection The Bear Approaches from the Sky
- George Choundas (16) received the Ronald Sukenick Innovation Prize (FC2) for his collection The Making Sense of Things
- Shira Dentz (18) won the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize in 2021 and her collection Sisyphusina was published 2020 (PANK)
- Kika Dorsey (19) published the collection Rust
- Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (15) has been published in numerous literary journals and her chapbook, Congress of Mud, is out from Finishing Line Press
- Larry Fondation (12, 19) has five books of stories, including the recent Martyrs and Holymen
- Grace Marie Grafton (13) published a collection of poems, Whimsy, Reticence, & Laud
- Taylor Graham’s (12) What the Wind Says was published in 2013 by Lummox Press
- Peter Grandbois (19 & 22) has been widely published, and his co-authored book Triptych came out in spring 2020
- Zachary Greenberg is the author of Scarlight (Ravenna)
- Patrick Haas (13) has been published in Unstuck, Salt Hill, and Best New Poets 2012
- Jared Harel (11) published the chapbook The Body Double
- Jessica Hollander (12), has numerous fantastic publications and was the 2013 winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction for In These Times the Home Is a Tired Place
- Sandra Jensen (12) has had stories published in AGNI, Versal, and a host of other literary outlets
- Anna Leahy’s (20) most recently published the book Tumor (Bloomsbury)
- Brian Le Lay (12) is the editor of Electric Windmill Press
- Peter Tieryas Liu (11), published the story collection Watering Heaven
- Ellaraine Lockie’s (11) most recent book is Coffee House Confessions
- Kelly Madigan (12) is the award-winning author of a new collection of poetry The Edge of Known Things and recipient of an NEA Grant
- Stephen Massimilla (20) has published widely, including his recent award-winning book Cooking with the Muse
- Wendell Mayo (17) published Survival House in 2018 and won the Subito Prize for Innovative Fiction for his collect The Cucumber King of Kedainiai
- Kelly Moffett’s (13) When the God of Water enters your Basement, Bow is out from Salmon Poetry
- Dan Moreau (12) has had fiction in The Journal, Phoebe, Crab Creek Review, Gargoyle, New Ohio Review, and Redivider
- Jessica Morey-Collins (19, 20) is publishing *everywhere*
- Jessica Piazza (16) won the 2013 Balcones Poetry Prize for her debut book of poetry Interrobang; her most recent book is Obliterations
- Colin Pope (12) has had poetry in Salamander and has won residences from the Vermont Studio Center and Gemini Ink
- Ned Randle (15) published the novel Baxter’s Friends
- Elizabeth Robinson (12) has tons of publications and books, most recently Counterpart (Ahsahta Press, 2012)
- Guadalupe Robles (17) published two translations, Persistence of Tattoos (2018) and I Will Forget These Poems (2019)
- Broc Rossell’s (17) Unpublished Poems is out from Brooklyn Arts Press
- Fred Skolnik (11) published the story collection The Other Shore
- Brandon Som (12) received the prestigious Kate Tufts Poetry Prize, and his collection The Tribute Horse won the 2012 Nightboat Poetry Prize
- Adam Tavel’s (14) book of poems Plash & Levitation has been published by University of Alaska Press
- Mark Terrill (12) has had poems published just about everywhere
- Jeff VandeZande (12), has published several books, including Threatened Species and Other Stories
- Hannah V. Warren (21) published her chapbook [re]construction of the necromancer in 2019
- Nicholas YB Wong (15) published Cities of Sameness in 2012, worked on Tupelo Press’s 30/30 Project, and Kaya Press published his book Crevasse in 2015
- Dallas Woodburn (18) published her YA novel The Best Thing That Never Happened in 2020
- Maya Jewell Zeller (12) authored the poetry collection Rust Fish
- Becka Mara McKay (18) is the author of The Little Book of No Consolation (Barrow Street 2021)