The Prose Poem

Annual Competitions

We hold two annual prose poetry competitions.

• Our Spring Short competition for prose poems of up to 150 words is open for submissions until 15 July.  Free entries are available for those who need them until 30 June.
• Our Prose Poetry competition for prose poems of up to 500 words is open for submissions from  1 July – 30 September.

Previous Competition Results

You can read the judge’s notes and winners of previous competitions in the following issues:

• 2025 Prose Poetry Competition
  • Results
  • Issue 35: Passage
• 2025 Spring Short Competition
  • Results
  • Issue 34: Four
• 2024 Prose Poetry Competition
  • Results
  • Issue 23: Second
• 2024 Spring Short Competition
  • Results
  • Issue 11: Short 2024
• 2023 Prose Poetry Competition
  • Results
  • Issue 1: First