Thank you to all those who submitted to the Passionfruit Poetry Prize 2024. The results of the contest can be found here (click for link).

Judge: Aaron Poochigian

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.

Deadline: 23:59 (GMT) 30th September 2024

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).