Exercises in Iconography
by Oz Hardwick
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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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Issue 35 Update
We are delaying the start of our new season due to a bereavement.
For those awaiting a publication date, we hope to have all dates sent out soon.
Thank you for your patience.
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Issue 34: Four
Issue 34: Four
Before we embark on our summer publishing break, we are delighted to present the four prize-winning poems in our 2025 Spring Short Competition.
- Sympathy Cards by Lucia Owen
- Tender Blue by Annastatia Brooks
- A Small City with Trams by Michael Mintrom
- Mountain Flower Homily by Maggie Russell
Judges notes can be found here.
Although we will continue working behind the scenes, we’re taking a brief summer publishing pause. We’ll return in September with our next issue and the first of our brand new ekphrastic prose poetry series. Meanwhile, our annual competition for prose poems of up to 500 words is currenty open and will close on 15 October 2025. Details can be found here.
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