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P – The Passionfruit Poetry Prize 2024
September 30 @ 12:00 am
The theme is love – and it’s yours to interpret as broadly, as interestingly, and as tenuously as you wish.
1ST PRIZE: £400
2ND PRIZE: £75
3RD PRIZE: £25
The judge will also select up to 15 additional poems to be published alongside the prizewinners in a special issue of The Passionfruit Review.
ABOUT THE JUDGE
Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His latest collection, American Divine, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award, came out in 2021. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and POETRY.
He was also a contributor to Issue 5 of The Passionfruit Review.
A NOTE FROM THE JUDGE
Love, love, love—what better theme can there be? Love can expand outward into most anything and still be what it is. As Chaucer’s Madame Eglantine’s brooch pin says: Amor vincit omnia (Love conquers all).
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- The entry fee (per submission of up to 3 poems) is £4.
- Submissions are open to all poets writing in English.
- Poems must be previously unpublished.
- Strong language is fine. Abusive or discriminatory language is not.
- Simultaneous submissions are welcome – just let us know promptly via the submissions manager if you need to withdraw any of your poems.
- Poems up to 40 lines – including spaces – will be considered. We consider longer poems as general submissions!
- The review process will be kept strictly anonymous. Do not include any identifying information in your attached documents. Poets whose work is known by or recognisable to the judge will be disqualified.