We are delighted to bring you the shortlist for this year’s competition. Congratulations to the authors of these poems! (more…)
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2026 Spring Competition Longlist
We are delighted to bring you the longlist for this year’s competition. Congratulations to the authors of these poems! (more…)
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2025 Prose Poetry Competition Shortlist
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
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2025 Prose Poetry Competition Longlist
Huge thanks again to everyone who submitted work to our third annual Prose Poetry Competition.
We are delighted to bring you the longlist for this year’s competition. Congratulations to the authors of these poems!
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 shortlist and winners later this week….
2025 TPP Prose Poetry Competition Longlist
- Abuela (I’m Sorry)
- Any Sufficiently Useless Tech
- Beard
- Bus in the Woods
- Crow shapes
- Disco Truths: Miami
- Edinburgh
- Exercises in Iconography
- Fishbowl Waltz
- Happening
- I’m Not A Very Good Story Teller
- In Mum’s Eyes
- March
- Marsh
- Mirrors
- My Answer To Your Unsung Sorrow
- Outside the World, Columbus
- Playback
- Sisterhood
- Subconscious Ode to Ponce de Leon
- Terrazzo in Suburbia
- The Chancellor’s Secret
- The Dog Walker
- The Sales Executive
- The Teaspoon’s Complaint
- This Particular Jar
- This summer’s images are all about endings.
- Three Vignettes
- Uncertainty Poem
- What We Offered as the World Collapsed
- When Pickleball Saved the World
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2025 Spring Short Competition Shortlist
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…)