Congratulations to our five prize-winners in our 2024 Spring Short Competition for prose poems on the shorter end of the spectrum. (more…)
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2024 Spring Short Competition Shortlist
We thought choosing a longlist was difficult, but choosing the shortlist was even harder.
Huge congratulations to the authors of the following shortlisted poems. Do feel free to let people know if you are a shortlisted author, but please don’t name your poem until results are announced as adjudication is still in process.
Spring Short 2024 Shortlist
- A Farrier Goes to the Dentist
- Assigned Readings
- August
- Bible School, Revisited
- Blue Heart
- Everything is Subject to Change
- Fetch (First line begins: “I pretend to throw”)
- First Meeting
- For a while, after a funeral
- How a Salamander Sheds
- I Used to Think I’d Be a Good Mortician
- In this Version of the Break-up, We Break-up
- July
- Mothers
- Musings Between a Field of Grain & Downtown Birmingham
- On Monday morning, a bird came to my window
- Pieces of Me
- Postcard
- Prologue
- Self-Portrait as Harold and His Purple Crayon in an Active Shooter Lockdown
- Something You Give Back After Keeping It for a While?
- Sundowners
- The Life Cycle of a Fairy Tale Princess
- The Wind’s Eye
- Winter Musings
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2024 Spring Short Competition Longlist
We’ve been blown away by the quantity and quality of the submissions we received for our 2024 Spring Short competition and it’s been incredibly difficult to determine a shortlist.
Huge congratulations to the authors of the longlisted poems. Do feel free to let people know if you are a longlisted author, but please don’t name your poem until results are announced as adjudication is still in process.
Spring Short 2024 Longlist
- A Farrier Goes to the Dentist
- All Poems
- Assigned Readings
- August
- Bible School, Revisited
- Blue Heart
- Don’t Break the Spine
- Everything is Subject to Change
- Explaining Love to a Robot
- Fetch (First line begins: “I pretend to throw”)
- First Meeting
- Flashes
- For a while, after a funeral
- Glangel
- How a Salamander Sheds
- I Used to Think I’d Be a Good Mortician
- I Wonder What the NSA Thinks of my Search History
- In this Version of the Break-up, We Break-up
- July
- Logement à Louer
- Longing, noun
- Mermaid Sculptures with the Rheumatologist
- Mothers
- Musings Between a Field of Grain & Downtown Birmingham
- No, I Don’t Regret Loving You
- No-One in the World
- On Monday morning, a bird came to my window
- Paralysed In The Snacks Aisle
- Pastry crumbs
- Pieces of Me
- Polyester Housecoat
- Postcard
- Prologue
- Robinia Pseudoacacia, commonly black locust
- Self-Portrait as Harold and His Purple Crayon in an Active Shooter Lockdown
- some kinda ecstasy
- Something You Give Back After Keeping It for a While?
- Spilled Bananas
- Spoiler Alert
- Sundowners
- The Life Cycle of a Fairy Tale Princess
- The Seawall
- The Touch
- The Wind’s Eye
- This is the One Where Gravity Man Bends to Tie His Shoe
- Vietnam and Other Wars
- Walks with Somebody
- We Were Just Kids, 1960
- Winter Musings
- You Clench It, But It’s Air.
- You, I and Night
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Issue 10: Birds
This month we have six poems for you to sample in this moment between the May bank holidays…. (more…)