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tiny wren lit focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (2-3 times per year). Readers can download each issue in a zine format. Home of the tiny zine. SUBS CLOSED.
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We like tiny poems. If you write tiny poems, put together a tiny manuscript with some tiny poems and send it our way.
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Submissions open throughout the month of June for Issue 7: Memento Mori.
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Because you asked so nicely, we're extending submissions for tiny wren's 2nd print anthology another week. Let's have some more poems on the concept of memory. Cheers.
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Submissions for Issue 7: Memento Mori open on June 1st!
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Keep sending along your tiny "Self-Portrait As" poems. How tiny? Here's info from our FAQ:
Poems fifteen (15) lines in length or under (including stanza breaks). Five (5) to ten (10) lines are our sweet spot. Each line should have no more than 25 characters + spaces. 🪺
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August 15: Final call for Issue 5 submissions + new call for our 2nd anthology on the concept of memory.
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Submit to tiny wren's 2nd print anthology, "The Half-Life of Echoes: Poems about the Power and Fragility of Memories":
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Keep submitting your poems for Issue 5: Birdsong.
(Only if you believe birds are REAL 😉)
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Get your tiny chapbook submitted. Last day is July 15, the same day that subs open for Issue 5: Birdsong!
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Send us your tiny poems that offer a unique interpretation of the theme.
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We are grateful for your poems. Accepting manuscripts for tiny/microchaps through the end of March 15.
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Hello, creatives! We are open for submissions thru March. Issue 4 has no theme, so poet's choice.
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Wrensters and wren fans, did you know that you can print out each issue in zine form?
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Congratulations to the three winners of tiny wren's 2nd call for tiny chapbooks.
Our thanks to everyone who submitted.
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We received 84 manuscripts. One lucky poet had their chap accepted by another press. Congrats! Our first task involved identifying our top 25. Not easy!
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Submissions close Dec. 15, so send us your tiny winter poems: snow, sleet, solstice, cold, hibernation
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Anyone feeling blue or singing the blues? Subs open Dec. 15.
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Take a look at past issues (online) to get a sense of what we like in a tiny poem.
Contributor Jennifer Brown (Issue 4; All Poems Are Ghosts Anthology) has a forthcoming tiny chap (whisper song) coming out soon with tiny wren lit.
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“May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living” – e. e. cummings
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Submit.
👋Hiya! A bit shorter today as is par for the course this time otm.
Nonetheless don't miss these, lots of great themed calls this week.
Find everybodys submission details & more places to sub:
#writingcommunity
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Hey, tiny wrensters, here's another place that likes tiny poems!
While we're not quite ready for submissions, you should begin getting those lil poems ready! We have some very specific guidelines when it comes to length.
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Remember to submit to tiny wren's 2nd print anthology! We want your meditations on memory, imaginative, philosophical:
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for the record, tiny wren loves tiny poems and tiny tweets under 280 characters
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Cover reveal for Vanishing, a micro-chap with exquisite poems by
@danagraef
. Cover art by
@Lewis_MichaelH
.
Coming soon for National Poetry Month!
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Final Call: We'll be closing subs for Issue 3 at the end of Nov. 15.
Stay tune for info about submitting to our upcoming print anthology with guest editor and poet
@eboninthehedges
!
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"Self-Portrait As" Issue Submission tips
Title: Self-Portrait As [fill in the blank]
Size: Think tiny. Five (5) to ten (10) lines are our sweet spot
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Submissions open for tiny, wintery poems. Think cold, icicles, frost, blizzards, isolation, dormancy in no more than 15 lines.
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Here's to our final 10. Fellow editors + presses take note!
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Our Blue issue has a record number of poets named Susan. Love to the poetic Susans of the world.
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Salutations! Issue 4 is now live! Thanks to all of our tiny wren poets. Happy reading!
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Congratulations to our Pushcart Prize nominees! Good luck, wrensters!
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Submission window for our "all poems are ghosts" print anthology closes at the end of 12/31.
@eboninthehedges
and
@dana_a_knott
will then have some difficult decisions to make.
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Issue 6: Blue is now live, with printable zines soon to follow.
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Last day to submit to our Blue issue! Send us some tiny poems that interpret the theme in a unique or surprising way.
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Cover reveal for tiny wren's 2nd print anthology!
Coming soon.
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Pride weekend in Columbus, Ohio! Happy Pride to all you wrensters, today and every day!
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I'm still sending out decisions, slowly. I always like to add a personal message.
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Enjoy the opening poem of tiny wren's anthology The Half-Life of Echoes, available in the tiny wren shop.
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We are excited to share that tiny wren will publish manuscripts by
@vicnogay
(June) and
@PaxWrites
(July). Thanks to everyone who submitted a tiny chap.
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Issue 1 is now live! Ring in the New Year with some winter poems!
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Soft launch of Issue 5 Birdsong tonight as I make final tweaks. My thanks to the amazing tiny wrensters who blessed us with so much beauty.
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Okay, wrensters, here's another place to send your amazing tiny poems!
We are currently open for submissions until August 15th
Today's sample from the latest series comes from our Amy Haddad collection. Complete guidelines at
#WritingCommunity
#zines
#poetrytwitter
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Submissions to our winter issue close tonight, 12/15, at 11:59pm ET. ❄️☃️🌨️⛷️
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And away we go! Now open for submissions to our "all poems are ghosts" print anthology!
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Happy New Year 2023 from tiny wren. Filled with gratitude for our poets, readers, + creatives.
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Because y'all have been so good, tiny wren has made a donation in your name to the Human Fund. And, just in time for Festivus, Issue 3: Self-Portrait As is live!
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Pushcart nominations coming soon. How do I choose only 6 from so many amazing poems?
Do you have a favorite poem published by tiny wren?
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We will be announcing the accepted tiny manuscripts and sending decisions on Friday, August 11. Stay tuned!
#tinywrenpublishing
#tinypoems
#tinychaps
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Have you ever seen a ghost between the lines of a poem?
#allpoemsareghosts
#tinypoems
#printanthology
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Our thanks to all who submitted and our congratulations to tiny wren's "All Poems Are Ghosts" poets.
#allpoemsareghosts
#tinywrenlit
#tinypoems
@eboninthehedges
@dana_a_knott
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Thinking about submitting to Issue 6: Blue? Check out Victoria Punch's blue verses from Issue 3.
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We continue to go through your submissions to "All Poems Are Ghosts." Notifications will go out before January's end.
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Yes. It's true. We kinda, sorta like you.
@MinisonProject
@eastridgereview
@GreenInkPoetry
@HyacinthReview
@TheBitchinK
@MoistPoetry
@JupiterReview
@TheDodgeMag
🐣🐥🐤
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Attention, wrensters! Submissions are open. Mr. tiny wren
@kip_knott
and I
@dana_a_knott
are both part of series 11.
Reminder that we are now open for submissions through this month (July)
***and our current series 11 is available at our square store:
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You can now find tiny wren lit on Instagram. Hooray for us.
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Cover art for our "All Poems Are Ghosts" anthology, "Spook" by amazing artist
@Melodiesstacey
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Hello, wrensters! Our print anthology is headed off to press and our next issue will be out this week. Here's a sneak peek!
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Subs open for tiny chapbook manuscripts. Think tiny, imagistic, cohesive poems. Visit our "Submit" page for details:
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Hello, wrensters,
@eastridgereview
was kind enough to publish some of my poems, including a couple of tiny poems. Check them out!
Our featured
#writer
this month is, U.S. 🇺🇸
#poet
@dana_a_knott
who has recent publications in
@DustmagPoetry
,
@EunoiaReview
, &
@MusingPublish
. She works as a library director in Ohio & is editor of
@tinywrenlit
, which publishes micro-poetry. The feature:
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I looked for you in your poems but saw only myself. Putting together the 3rd issue got me like...
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Happy Follow Friday!
@OneArtPoetry1
@VerseZine
@blackboughpoems
@gutslutpress
@HyacinthReview
@nightandsparrow
@dailydrunkmag
@feral_of
@AcropolisJourn
@the_ethelzine
@mac_ro_mic
#FF
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In the works: Dec. opening subs for print anthology. In the now: subs open for "Self-Portrait As." In the shop: "Violet Flame" by
@MarkDanowsky
, "the war" by
@PaxWrites
, & "Distress Signals" by
@kip_knott
. Sold Out: "under fire under water" by
@vicnogay
.
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We are so excited to share that Kortney Garrison's "Every Broken Year: The Persephone Cycle" is now available in the tiny wren shop.
Such a powerful, poetic exploration of Persephone and Demeter!
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An abundance of lovely poems! The first of our three upcoming chapbooks, coming soon.
Cover reveal for Every Broken Year: The Persephone Cycle!
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"in air" was our 1st tiny chap, handmade and embellished. 🥰
A huge shout out to the crew over at
@tinywrenlit
for surprising me with an updated limited edition tiny chap of my Pushcart nominated poem, IN AIR, which I wrote on an airplane, hoping to see my dead lover living forever in the clouds. 🖤
DM for your signed copy.
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As we finalize issue 2 for publication, tiny wren lit is grateful for all of our poets, readers, and fellow human beings. 🌎
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Weekends are for putting together tiny poems for a tiny manuscript to submit to tiny wren lit.
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"Epiphany" from Elizabeth Anne Schwartz's micro-chap _Nine Stages of Coming Out_.
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They're here. "All Poems Are Ghosts" anthology now in the tiny wren shop.
Prepare for frisson.
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So grateful to share your poem. Keep writing!
So grateful for
@tinywrenlit
! I never thought I'd create a
#poem
, but a stressful holiday period came about. My first ever - probably not much to the world but the world to me! 🥹 Can't wait to read all of Issue 6!
#amwriting
#poetry
#WritingCommunity
#writerslife
#writechat
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tiny wren lit's Best of the Net nominations!
@bachtlorelei
@JaredPovanda
@hotlegsxoxo
@ajvanbelle
#raymondgibson
#lauragoldin
#bestofthenet
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Grab a copy or 2 of our latest micro-chapbook "Vanishing" by
@danagraef
with cover art by
@Lewis_MichaelH
.
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Spend some time with other people's ghosts. Buy a copy of tiny wren's 1st anthology ALL Poems Are Ghost.
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Don't forget that you can print out and make zines with poems from each issue.
#StockingStuffers
#poetry
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Our 2nd print anthology, The Half-Life of Echoes, is now available from the tiny wren shop! Thank you to all of our poets!
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Follow Friday!
@HyacinthReview
@AcropolisJourn
@VerseZine
@gutslutpress
@thewinnowmag
@ZeroReadersMag
@mac_ro_mic
@TheBitchinK
@feral_of
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Hello, fellow travelers! We have started sending out decisions for our All Poems Are Ghosts anthology.
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Well, hello there. All decisions sent. Work on the Memento Mori issue begins. 💀⏳🌹
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Did you know that you can print out Issue 1 poems in a tiny zine format?
#tinypoems
#tinyzines
#pocketpoems
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