Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry No This “Let’s approach this calmly, shall we?”There is no this. Alreadythere is no we, onlyme—you with yourwhatever, whoever, not wanting meto make a scene and nowyour back towards me moving away from metowards the city (cafes, bars, on either side).My feet are walking my lifedown the … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry The Blue Pearl Moments before I politely inform herher services are no longer required,the lawyer in her plush leather chairadvises me not to concern myselfwith how the custody agreement will turn out,because “you’ll lose interest soon enough,”then suggests I buy food coloring on the way home,because “a … Read more
Letters on it make such a strange word you wonder if they haven’t spelt it wrong. Endometriosis. It seems latin. You read the sentence under it and realize bewildered that you might not be crazy. Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction Endosomething You cry. You cry because it hurts and your head is burning … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction The Lesson Everyone should meet a D—- —– before they turn twenty. He should be in your past by the time you are twenty-five. He will cost you a lot but, as you are still young, you can afford him. You have plenty of time to recover. … Read more
Acting, at its core, is a noble and important quest for truth, and not all actors will have this same experience. But what I experienced, through my years of training, was a disruption of self. Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction Emma Haworth is a Lancashire-based writer and content editor/page designer, who holds an MA … Read more
Inspired by Kennedy’s vision of what he called the “New Frontier,” Dad constantly encouraged us to think big and pursue our goals with “vigor,” echoing the President’s words from his many televised press conferences. Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction Mourning Bells are Ringing My Dad was a design engineer for a major … Read more
But I knew there was something out there. I knew that, while Citizens hid away after curfew, others ran free. I could hear them through my window, the tiny window in my bedroom in the attic of the house in Streatham. I could hear their distant howls, deep into the night. Winner of The Letter … Read more
“Look at him, Steward. Until the traitors who did this are found, he is the source of your continued existence. He is the beginning and the end of your pursuit. Take your time to examine him.” Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books Graemist PROLOGUE Through the diminishing rains a bell tolled, an alarm ringing out … Read more
I didn’t upset Mam. Continued to live with her, just as she continued to live with her story of the paintings by her great-grandfather, the ‘moonlight man’, Edwin Tate. Who left the dockside tenements to live in a Jacobean Manor overlooking the bay, just like the one on the books. Whose paintings reach six-figures. Whose … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry To His Mother Alexei Navalny, (June 4, 1976— February 16, 2024) The tidal forces as you enter a black holeand approach the singularity would tear you apart.And also space and time. It is a small thingto be a mother, a heavy, small thing. To be a body, … Read more