The Prose Poem

Huge thanks again to everyone who submitted work to our third annual Prose Poetry Competition.

We are delighted to bring you the shortlist for this year’s competition. Congratulations to the authors of these poems!

We look forward to announcing the winners soon….

2025 TPP Prose Poetry Competition Shortlist

• Abuela (I’m Sorry)
• Any Sufficiently Useless Tech
• Bus in the Woods
• Crow shapes
• Exercises in Iconography
• Fishbowl Waltz
• Happening
• March
• Marsh
• My Answer To Your Unsung Sorrow
• Playback
• Sisterhood
• Subconscious Ode to Ponce de Leon
• Terrazzo in Suburbia
• The Teaspoon’s Complaint
• This summer’s images are all about endings.
• Uncertainty Poem
• What We Offered as the World Collapsed
• When Pickleball Saved the World

Huge thanks again to everyone who submitted work to our third annual Prose Poetry Competition.

We are delighted to bring you the longlist for this year’s competition. Congratulations to the authors of these poems!

Judging is still underway, so if you are on the list, please feel free to tell people, but please do not identify yourself with your poem so that we can continue to read anonymously.

We look forward to announcing the shortlist and winners later this week….

2025 TPP Prose Poetry Competition Longlist

• Abuela (I’m Sorry)
• Any Sufficiently Useless Tech
• Beard
• Bus in the Woods
• Crow shapes
• Disco Truths: Miami
• Edinburgh
• Exercises in Iconography
• Fishbowl Waltz
• Happening
• I’m Not A Very Good Story Teller
• In Mum’s Eyes
• March
• Marsh
• Mirrors
• My Answer To Your Unsung Sorrow
• Outside the World, Columbus
• Playback
• Sisterhood
• Subconscious Ode to Ponce de Leon
• Terrazzo in Suburbia
• The Chancellor’s Secret
• The Dog Walker
• The Sales Executive
• The Teaspoon’s Complaint
• This Particular Jar
• This summer’s images are all about endings.
• Three Vignettes
• Uncertainty Poem
• What We Offered as the World Collapsed
• When Pickleball Saved the World