Long List
(titles listed in no particular order)

Top 20

Ticks

Moth

Good enough

An Unexpected Beach

Some of Us Won’t Notice the Berries

Rail of Exes

Understanding Your Medication: Unsuitable Boyfriend

There was an old woman

The Tell-tale Chirp of an Olive Warbler

Where to return a used husband

Paved

Remembering Cairo

All Their Friends Thought They Were Fucking

What Can I Tell You

Never Mock the Clown

Now I Have Become Meme

It’s Not the End of the World

Pull Tab Night

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Red, White and Blueland

There were 115 entries, including FREE ENTRY bursaries.

Congrats to all those 20 writers on our long list. Check back next week for the shortlist.

Please note: we do not publish names until the judging process is fully complete. We’ll publish names with the final results, the winners, short-listed, long-listed. (We publish your name because you asked us to.)

The Plaza Poetry Prize (40 lines max) is OPEN now to enter. Judge: George Szirtes. 1st prize: £1,000 / $1250. Deadline: 31st May, 2025.