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