Thank you to all those who submitted to the Passionfruit Poetry Prize 2024.
The judge, Aaron Poochigian, has made the following selections:
First prize: ‘Hotpot Fridays’ by Brittany Atkinson
Second prize: ‘Provincetown’ by Deig Sullivan
Third prize: ‘Glass House’ by Tom McLaughlin
The following poems have also been highly commended and will be published alongside the prizewinners in a special issue of The Passionfruit Review in late November:
Letter – Lisabelle Tay
We Reap – Damen O Brien
Sissinghurst – Tom McLaughlin
Caravan Site – Nicole Janz
Lichen Poem – King Llanza
June – Joe Caldwell
After Seeing Nelson’s HMS Victory – S. Cristine
An Invitation to My Dead Lover – Amy Miller
Adhesion – Daniel Rabuzzi
Sprig, just so – Daniel Rabuzzi
Lightning Map – Julie Shulman
Figures in kitchen interior – Rachael Brown
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.