A home for love poetry. Interpret ‘love’ and ‘poetry’ as broadly, surprisingly, and tenuously as you like.

Passionfruit seeks work which engages with love in the broadest possible sense: writing which seeks love out or runs screaming from it; which delights in, is bored of, resents, yearns for, abhors, or denies love.

Every issue will be primarily devoted to love poetry, although there is always space for short fiction and other creative pieces.

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Passionfruit Review

Love

Here and Now

The Passionfruit Poetry Prize is back for 2025! The theme is love – and it’s yours to interpret as broadly, as interestingly, and as tenuously as you wish. See our website for more details. Submission Guidelines

(Any, Love Poetry)

Passionfruit Poetry Prize 2025

For this poetry contest, we are calling for poetry that engages with the experience of being in bodies. 
See our website for more details.
 
Submission Guidelines

  Entry fee: £4 for 1 poem, £5 for 2, or £6 for 3.
  Please submit up to three poems in a single document.
  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  Poems must be previously unpublished.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 through 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!)  Please do not include any identifying information on your attached document.
  All unsuccessful entries will also be considered for future publication in The Passionfruit Review.
  The review process will be anonymous. Please do not include any identifying information in your attached documents.

Being in Bodies 2026

Cover Art

Our general submissions are always open, always free, and always about love: the romantic, the familial, the platonic, the intimate, the lost, the young, the wretched. Above all, Passionfruit seeks to be a home for that which illuminates something of the human spirit – pieces that explore what love is (or isn’t, or might be), when we love, how we love, what we love, and why we love.     Our focus is on poetry, but there are no restrictions on genre, type, or style. We also consider poetry, prose, and visual art for each issue.     Take a look at some of our recent issues to get a feel for the journal before you submit - they are all freely available.  
POETRY

  Submit no more than three poems at a time
  There are no set restrictions on length for poetry submissions, but we will be looking for writing which shows meticulousness in its use of language, whether across 2 lines or 200.

PROSE

  We consider prose submissions (prose poetry, flash fiction, creative non-fiction are all welcome) of up to 1000 words.

VISUAL ART

  Submit up to three pieces for consideration.
  All rights to the work remain with the artist – we only ask permission to publish your piece as cover art for the journal and to feature it in promotional materials. 

 
GENERAL GUIDELINES

  We welcome submissions from anywhere in the world, from anyone over the age of 18.
  Simultaneous submissions are welcome – just let us know promptly via the submissions managaer if any of your pieces are accepted elsewhere.
  No multiple submissions to our general reading windows, please! If your submission is declined, please wait until the following month before submitting again.
  Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Authors retain all rights, we simply ask that you allow Passionfruit first publication and credit this in any later iterations of your piece.
  Strong language is fine – abusive or discriminatory language is not.
  Response time will not usually exceed 2-3 months. If you would like to hear back sooner, we offer the option of an expedited (3-5 day) response for a £6 fee.
  Please note that – while we are always grateful for donations – no preferential treatment is given to paid submissions.

 
See our submissions page for more information (including an up-to-date reading schedule).

Issue Submissions

Guidelines Length: 25-40 pages (slightly longer or shorter will be considered) Reading fee: £5 What to submit: a 10-page sample (.doc or .docx preferred) and a cover letter including a brief third-person bio and a statement (no more than 100 words) letting us know your vision for the work as a whole. If your submission is shortlisted for publication, we will then request your manuscript in full.

Eligibility We welcome submissions from anywhere in the world, from anyone over the age of 18. Poetry must be written primarily in English. Your manuscript must not have been previously published as a collection, although individual poems or sequences may have appeared elsewhere. Please just mention these in your acknowledgements. We accept simultaneous submissions. We will not consider any AI-generated writing. If you engage at all with generative AI in your creative work, please get in touch with us with a full statement detailing your process, including your critical approach.

Chapbook Submissions

The Passionfruit Poetry Prize is back for 2026!
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 £600
2nd prize £150
3rd prize £50
9 × COMMENDED POEMS £15 EACH
All prizewinning and commended poems will also be published in a special issue of The Passionfruit Review. You can see our last contest special issue here.
Entry fee: £4 for 1 poem, £6 for 2, or £7 for 3.
Please submit up to three poems in a single document.
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 through 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!)
Please do not include any identifying information on your attached document.
All unsuccessful entries will also be considered for future publication in The Passionfruit Review.
By submitting you confirm that this writing is your own and is not AI-generated. If you have engaged AI in the course of your writing, please get in touch with us at editor@passionfruitreview.com to check your eligibility.
Please note: we have a limited number of fee waivers available. If the entry fee prevents you from participating in this contest, get in touch with us at editor@passionfruitreview.com



More details, including a note from the judge, can be found on our website.

Passionfruit Poetry Prize

The Passionfruit Poetry Prize is back for 2026!<div><br></div><div>Judge: Aaron Poochigian</div><div><br></div><div>The theme is love - and it's yours to interpret as broadly, as interestingly, and as tenuously as you wish.</div><div><br></div><div>1st prize £600</div><div>2nd prize £150</div><div>3rd prize £50</div><div>9x runners up £15</div><div><br></div><div>All twelve poems will be published in a special issue of The Passionfruit Review.</div>

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