We are delaying the start of our new season due to a bereavement.
We anticipate an October 2025 publication date for Issue 35.
For those awaiting a publication date, we hope to have all dates sent out by November.
Thank you for your patience.
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Issue 34: Four
Issue 34: Four
Before we embark on our summer publishing break, we are delighted to present the four prize-winning poems in our 2025 Spring Short Competition.
- Sympathy Cards by Lucia Owen
- Tender Blue by Annastatia Brooks
- A Small City with Trams by Michael Mintrom
- Mountain Flower Homily by Maggie Russell
Judges notes can be found here.
Although we will continue working behind the scenes, we’re taking a brief summer publishing pause. We’ll return in September with our next issue and the first of our brand new ekphrastic prose poetry series. Meanwhile, our annual competition for prose poems of up to 500 words is currenty open and will close on 15 October 2025. Details can be found here.
Photo by cottonbro studio via pexels.
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2025 Spring Short Competition Shortlist
It has been incredibly hard to come up with a shortlist this year and we have been so impressed with the quality, quantity and range of styles, subjects, and moods in the poems we had the privilege to read for our 2025 Spring Short Competition for prose poems of up to 100 words. (more…)
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Issue 33: Sun
Issue 33: Sun
We’re marking this hot summer month with a handful of poems in which the sun makes an appearance….
- Tangled by Smitha Sehgal
- Land Girl by John Johnson
- To Become a Light by Smitha Sehgal
- Lake Crossings by Lucinda Trew
Photo via Pexels (CC0)