{"id":2,"date":"2017-07-26T18:50:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:37:26","slug":"prism-review","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/","title":{"rendered":"Prism Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(We will<strong> re-open in early April. <\/strong>For submission info, click <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/prismreview.submittable.com\/submit\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newest news:<\/strong> 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/contest-poetry-short-story\/\">contest winners announced<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">More news!<\/h2>\n<p>Brandon Som, contributor to issue 12, was awarded the <strong>2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry<\/strong> for his collection <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ugapress.org\/book\/9780820363509\/tripas\">Tripas <\/a>&#8212; <\/em>congratulations, Brandon!<\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline Vogtman&#8217;s (25) debut collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dzancbooks.org\/all-titles\/p\/girl-country\"><em>Girl Country<\/em><\/a> was awarded the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize<\/p>\n<p>Former contributor Theodore Carter turned his story &#8220;Sonya&#8217;s Insatiable Hunger&#8221; (issue 14) into a podcast. <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fchileanseablob&amp;data=04%7C01%7Csbernard%40laverne.edu%7Ce695007339064df224cb08d9de6c1356%7C481fc41f861844cbaa7e4947d7e665a2%7C0%7C0%7C637785378956926237%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=WjB1%2BTav%2BeTzFw1%2BDIKOQuIh%2FnewgHxn3gno2oBVrIg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Listen to it here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Former contributors rocking it!<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5859204\/america-in-crisis\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-356\" src=\"https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/08\/TIME.AmericaChange.Cover_-744x992.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/08\/TIME.AmericaChange.Cover_-744x992.jpg 744w, https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/08\/TIME.AmericaChange.Cover_-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/08\/TIME.AmericaChange.Cover_-576x768.jpg 576w, https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/08\/TIME.AmericaChange.Cover_.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaquiradiaz.com\/\">Jaquira D\u00edaz<\/a><span>\u00a0(issue 13) had her acclaimed memoir\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ordinary-Girls-Jaquira-D%C3%ADaz\/dp\/1616209135\">Ordinary Girls<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>published in 2019 &#8230; and she&#8217;s included on the July cover of, um, <em>Time<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carloslive.com\/bio\/\">Carlos Andr\u00e9s G\u00f3mez<\/a><span>\u00a0(21) had his collection<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9Rx_XqBjuf\/\">Fractures<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>selected by Natasha Trethewey as winner of the 2020 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredharel.com\/\">Jared Har\u00e9l<\/a> (11) had his collection <em>Let Our Bodies Change the Subject<\/em> selected by Kwame Dawes as the Winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz\/Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry (U. of Nebraska Press, 2023)<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/authors-published\/\"> an expanded run-down of our contributors&#8217; many successes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-722 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/05\/Prism-logo-992x992.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/05\/Prism-logo-992x992.png 992w, https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/05\/Prism-logo-1200x1200.png 1200w, https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/05\/Prism-logo-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/05\/Prism-logo-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/05\/Prism-logo-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/05\/Prism-logo-405x405.png 405w, https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/05\/Prism-logo.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(We will re-open in early April. For submission info, click here.) Newest news: 2026 contest winners announced! &nbsp; More news! Brandon Som, contributor to issue 12, was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Tripas &#8212; congratulations, Brandon! 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