Submissions to tinywords 22.1 — and a new writing prompt

Winter’s chill is still with us here in the northern hemisphere but spring is around the corner. TINYWORDS 21.2 has now ended with Bob Lucky’s haibun, The Triumph of Art. The submission window for TINYWORDS 22.1 opened on February 1st, so if you haven’t yet and would like to, please send us your small poems, haiga, or brief haibun to be considered for our next issue: TINYWORDS 22.1.

Sending work to TINYWORDS is a simple two-step process. Just check out our Guidelines and click on the Submissions Page from Feb. 1 through Feb. 28,  2022. One month window, as usual.

To keep things lively while we work on the new issue, we present a new writing prompt. This rural Arizona image of a road lined with magnificent old saguaro cacti presents a bit of wabi-sabi.  Or perhaps you see it a little differently. We hope this lonesome trail conjures a short poem or two.

Be sure to share it with us: Leave your best efforts in response to the photo prompt in the comment box below and the TINYWORDS editorial team will share the best of the best in TINYWORDS 22.1, due out in late March, 2022.

Thanks again for dropping by. We look forward to reading what you have to say.

Be well,

The editors

103 thoughts on “Submissions to tinywords 22.1 — and a new writing prompt”

  1. walking down
    the empty streets of my dreams
    saguaro cactus
    ******************************************

  2. My brother and I sat in the station wagon’s way back—two pull-up facing seats next to the rear window. The world receded in a rectangular frame above the blank white lid of a crank-up camper. Out west, he and I were like the only people in a theater showing a road movie. The car faded into silence—or the unearthly rhythm of the Indian drums at an Arizona roadside attraction. Behind the gaudy cement teepee, we’d seen a drummer tussle with his wife (who sold turquoise jewelry from a dusty case) for her cracked plastic purse.

    who waved goodbye
    forever
    us or the saguaro

  3. on a desert road
    the sculptor revisits
    his subject

    learning perspective
    i follow the road
    to the vanishing point

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