Submissions to tinywords 23.2 — and a new writing prompt

photograph of a tall stone gate with a dark doorway, surrounded by trees. In the foreground are broad, shallow steps leading up to the gate.

tinywords 23.1 has now ended with Tony William’s haiku “one large wave”. We will be on pause until the next issue, 23.2, begins in a month or two.

The submission window for tinywords 23.2 opened on August 1st and will remain open until the end of the month. Sending regular submissions to tinywords is a simple two-step process. Just check out our guidelines and send in your work using the form on the Submissions Page from Aug. 1 through Aug. 31, 2023. Please send us your haiku, small poems, haiga, or brief haibun to be considered for our next issue: tinywords 23.2.

To keep things lively while we work on the next issue, we present a new writing prompt: A photo image captured by Anthony Catalano of the sculpture Damascus Gate created by Walter Dusenbery, which resides at the magical sculpture garden/museum Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, USA. We hope this majestic gate sculpture will draw you in and help to inspire you to write a tiny poem or two in response. Be sure to share them 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 23.2, due out in late September, 2023.

This is an ekphrastic challenge spanning centuries. The original Damascus Gate is the main gate along the northern wall of the old city of Jerusalem.

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

Be well,

The editors

46 thoughts on “Submissions to tinywords 23.2 — and a new writing prompt”

  23. a garden kept tame –
    step altars alter step
    to on to empty way

    sorry, 'desks' are hard for me

    here's a today plein air, why not share?
    oh yeah,..the prompt.
    but…

    distant lightning –
    dry snap
    of bug zapper.

    i wish you all wise love.

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  44. Ekphrasis

    An ivy grown opening from carefully tended garden to garden, a portal for contemplation that consciously invokes a Holy Land . . . Noisy, vibrant, politically contested, a great place to buy snacks on Ramadan evenings, a crenellated gate through Suleiman the First's fortifications of Jerusalem

    sun-warmed rock
    subtle patterns in sandstone
    span worlds

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