Huge thanks again to everyone who submitted work to our second annual Prose Poetry Competition.
We are delighted to bring you the shortlist for this year’s competition.
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 winners at the end of the month….
2024 TPP Prose Poetry Competition Shortlist
- A Love Letter for Autumn
- Blackwater Graveyard
- Chasing the Dark
- Criterion of Truth
- First Dreams
- Heirlooms
- Land Girl
- May, week 1
- Mr Green Thinks He is a Book
- Nothing, The Knight
- Of Fish and Human Beings
- Out There, On Thin Ice
- Peacocks
- Red Hot Chili Sun
- Redemption in the Stationery Aisle
- Re-learning How to Swim Breast-Stroke
- Seagulls and the Sea
- Something of Fleas
- The Horseshoe Crab
- The Milagro of Lucid Dreams
- The Offing
- Your mum said that the phone was tapped