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  • Issue 36: Garden


    Issue 36: Garden

    It’s still dark and cold here in the UK, but the crocuses are peeping out of the ground, and it’s making us dream of gardens.  We invite you to join us….

    • A Companionable Silence by Carol Despeaux Fawcett
    • Daughter by Lulu Sinnott
    • Mr Green is a Garden by Hannah Linden
    • Special Delivery by Sylvia Claire Onorato
    • A Poem Is a Replacement Problem by Julie Gard

     

    In other news…

    Huge congratulations to Natalie DeVaull-Robichaud whose poem “Done” from Issue 31 was chosen for Best Microfictions 2026.  You can read the complete list of 2025 nominations here.

     


    Photo courtesy of Freepik.

    9 February 2026

  • A Poem Is a Replacement Problem

    A Poem Is a Replacement Problem
    by Julie Gard (more…)

    9 February 2026

  • Special Delivery

    Special Delivery
    by Sylvia Claire Onorato (more…)

    9 February 2026

  • Mr Green is a Garden

    Mr Green is a Garden
    by Hannah Linden (more…)

    9 February 2026

  • Daughter

    Daughter
    by Lulu Sinnott (more…)

    9 February 2026

  • A Companionable Silence

    A Companionable Silence
    by Carol Despeaux Fawcett (more…)

    9 February 2026

  • 2025 Award Nominations

    Congratulations to the following 2025 award nominees. We wish you the best of luck in the next rounds of the selection process!

    Best Microfictions

    • Done by Natalie DeVaull-Robichaud
    • Forms of Matter by Julie Gard
    • Husband Stitch by Nikita Deshpande
    • Tangled by Smitha Sehgal
    • The Offing by Jonathan Carr

    Pushcart Prize

    • A Small City with Trams by Michael Mintrom
    • Done by Natalie DeVaull-Robichaud
    • Mountain Flower Homily by Maggie Russell
    • Sympathy Cards by Lucia Owen
    • Tangled by Smitha Sehgal
    • Tender Blue by Annastatia Brooks
    9 February 2026

  • Issue 35: Passage

    Black and white photo of mother duck leading a line of baby ducks.

    Issue 35: Passage

    After a difficult 2025 and a slow start to 2026, we are delighted to bring you the winning poems from The Prose Poem’s 2025 Prose Poetry Competition. (more…)

    28 January 2026

  • Marsh

    Marsh
    by Katy Z. Allen

    (more…)

    28 January 2026

  • Exercises in Iconography by Oz Hardwick

    Exercises in Iconography
    by Oz Hardwick

    (more…)

    28 January 2026

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