The Prose Poem

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

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