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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.

    7 August 2025

  • Mountain Flower Homily

    Mountain Flower Homily
    by Maggie Russell (more…)

    7 August 2025

  • A Small City with Trams

    A Small City with Trams
    by Michael Mintrom (more…)

    7 August 2025

  • Tender Blue

    Tender Blue
    by Annastatia Brooks (more…)

    7 August 2025

  • Sympathy Cards

    Sympathy Cards
    by Lucia Owen (more…)

    7 August 2025

  • 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…)

    6 August 2025

  • 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)

    14 July 2025

  • Lake Crossings

    Lake Crossings
    by Lucinda Trew (more…)

    14 July 2025

  • To Become a Light

    To Become a Light
    by Smitha Sehgal (more…)

    14 July 2025

  • Land Girl

    Land Girl
    by John Johnson (more…)

    14 July 2025

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