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.
We are delighted to present this shortlist. If your poem is listed, please do feel free to let people know. Judging has finished and the winning poems will be posted soon.
Thank you to everyone who sent us work; we have truly enjoyed spending time with your words. All authors who entered work in the competition should have received an update by email; if you are still awaiting notification, please check your spam folder or log in to Duosuma.
Now, without further ado, huge congratulations to the the authors of the following shortlisted poems:
Spring Short 2025 Shortlist
- A Small City with Trams
- Aeolus, Tinos
- after forty years of marriage June became a trout
- Behind Closed Eyelids
- Blue
- Daughter
- Dress up
- Echoes
- Floaties
- From the cuckoo it begins
- Gift Economy
- Harbinger
- I like to drink overnight coffee
- Little black cat
- Mother Needs
- Mountain Flower Homily
- Neural Pathways
- Niobe and me
- Pink Sweatsuit
- poetry is
- Sympathy Cards
- Tender Blue
- The Current Exchange Rate
- the weight of it all
- Under the Sycamore Tree