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. (more…)
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2025 Spring Short Competition Longlist
Yet again, we’ve been blown away by the quantity and quality of the submissions we received for our 2025 Spring Short Competition for prose poems of up to 100 words. (more…)
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2024 Award Nominations
Congratulations to the following 2024 award nominees. We wish you the best of luck in the next rounds of the selection process!
Best Microfictions
- Dusk, January 6, 2023 by Lucia Owen
- In Memoriam by Marc Audet
- Revelation in Snow and Woods by Thad DeVassie
- Something that I learned from someone who is gone by Darsie Bowden
- The Flop by John Johnson
Best Small Fictions
- Something of Fleas by May Cannon
- Peacocks by Lee Stockdale
- Red Hot Chili Sun by Kathrine Bancroft
- Something that I learned from someone who is gone by Darsie Bowden
- What Happens When a Star Explodes by Amorak Huey
Pushcart Prize
- ‘First Meeting’ by Stephen Schwei
- ‘For a while, after a funeral’ by Richard Jordan
- ‘Blue Heart’ by Danielle Benvenuto
- ‘bayview’ by T Cruz
- ‘The American Prose Poem’ by Joshua McKinney
- ‘Something You Give Back After Keeping It for a While?’ Jonathan Yungkans
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2024 Prose Poetry Competition Shortlist
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
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2024 Prose Poetry Competition Longlist
Huge thanks to everyone who submitted work to our second annual Prose Poetry Competition.
We are pleased to announce the longlist for this year’s competition. Huge congratulations to the authors of the following poems.
The shortlist selection process is still underway, so if you are on the list, 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 shortlist in mid-November….
2024 TPP Prose Poetry Competition Longlist
- A Letter to the Sirnames Lost
- A Love Letter for Autumn
- Agnosia
- Allyne
- Blackwater Graveyard
- Blood Rots
- Blur at the End
- Chasing the Dark
- Criterion of Truth
- Farmer Sleep
- First Dreams
- Google Search for Shamans
- Heirlooms
- Land Girl
- May, week 1
- MOUSE
- Mr Green is a Garden
- Mr Green Thinks He is a Book
- Nothing, The Knight
- Of Fish and Human Beings
- On the Dryness of Oranges
- 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
- Singularity
- Something of Fleas
- Sympathetic Listener
- The City, an Unheard Song
- The Game
- The Horseshoe Crab
- The Milagro of Lucid Dreams
- The Offing
- Three Vignettes
- Your mum said that the phone was tapped
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Best of the Net Nominations 2023-2024
Congratulations to the following authors whose poems we nominated for the 2023-2024 Best of the Net awards. (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 longlist.
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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We’re open for submissions until 15 March 2024
We are pleased to announce that we are open for submissions from 15 February – 15 March 2024.
In case it is helpful with planning, please note that we are primarily looking for work for Issue 11 and beyond, so if your work is accepted for publication, it likely won’t be published until our summer issues.
You can find our submissions guidelines here.
Thank you for considering us. We look forward to reading your work.