Prose & Poetry Contest 2025 Winner Announcement

Dear Fairy Tale Friends,

First, we’re sending a giant thank you to everyone who participated in our fundraising contest. We received so many fantastic submissions that our judges tell us the final decisions were difficult to make!

Below are the winners for The Fairy Tale Magazine’s Prose & Poetry Contest 2025:

POETRY

Poetry Winner

Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman

Runners Up in Poetry

Murray Eiland

Helen Patrice

PROSE

Prose Winner

Alison Weber

Runners Up in Prose

Nomi Mini

Sarah Das Gupta

Many thanks to our judges for this year's contest: 

Deborah Sage, Poetry

Amy Trent, Prose

Look for the winning stories and poems to be featured in "Spellbound" our upcoming bonus issue of The Fairy Tale Magazine due out on July 15th! We will host a Zoom reading in celebration of the winners on July 26th.