Submissions to tinywords 25.1 — and a new writing prompt
It’s that time again. tinywords 24.2 has now ended with Elisa Theriana’s “until we meet again”. We will be on pause until the next issue, 25.1, begins late in March.
The submission window for tinywords 25.1 opens on February 1st and closes on February 28th, 2025. 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 after the window opens on February 1st. Please send us your haiku, tanka, small poems, haiga, or brief haibun to be considered for our next issue: tinywords 25.1. Our 25th year!
To keep things interesting while we work on the next issue, we present a new writing prompt: A starkly beautiful photo of a winter scene in black and white that seems to speak of solitude, memory and perhaps longing. What do you see? We hope the image will inspire you to write a tiny poem or two. Please 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 at the start of tinywords 25.1, due out in late March, 2025.
Thanks again for dropping by. We look forward to reading what you have to say.
Be well,
The editors
January 28th, 2025 at 8:08 am
that’s such a beautiful photo <3
~
deep winter
my memories swing
between light and dark
~
January 28th, 2025 at 8:51 am
memory the silence of a first snow
January 28th, 2025 at 8:54 am
Hello there!
Here is my haiku:
“Winter light
twenty-five years ago
our swing.”
Cendrine Marrouat
January 28th, 2025 at 9:36 am
black and white photo
setting colorful memories
in motion
January 28th, 2025 at 9:43 am
a motionless swing
above the untouched snow
waiting for the joy of children
January 28th, 2025 at 10:26 am
Like the memories
from my childhood, blanketed
over with snowfall
January 28th, 2025 at 10:29 am
winter silence
that place I go
to find myself
January 28th, 2025 at 10:40 am
Memories frozen
so deep that the impending
thaw cannot unearth
January 28th, 2025 at 11:14 am
those days
when we had wings
school swing
January 28th, 2025 at 11:48 am
the swing
waits for the baby
winter will thaw
into spring
January 28th, 2025 at 11:51 am
winter blues swing low
January 28th, 2025 at 12:21 pm
chiaroscuro
what lies beneath
the shadows
January 28th, 2025 at 12:41 pm
heartland solitude abandoned
January 28th, 2025 at 1:04 pm
late winter
the swing where she was
abducted
January 28th, 2025 at 3:36 pm
virgin snow
untouched by
angel wings
January 28th, 2025 at 4:09 pm
waiting
to take the first step
into treatment
riding the second swing
a ghost
leaves no footprints
just enough
snow
to start anew
January 28th, 2025 at 6:10 pm
the shadow
of an empty swing
winter deepens
January 28th, 2025 at 6:44 pm
empty swing
above snow drifts
pushed by the wind
January 28th, 2025 at 7:53 pm
childhood—
pure as snow
just as fleeting
January 28th, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Let me do that one over again:
Frozen memories
so deep, the impending thaw
cannot unearth them
January 28th, 2025 at 9:18 pm
frozen silence
thoughts sway towards
our time together
January 28th, 2025 at 10:47 pm
first snow
completely different
scent of porridge
January 29th, 2025 at 4:06 am
Still cold silent
but the swing moves both ways…
January 29th, 2025 at 4:41 am
light and shadow
the memories
that define us
January 29th, 2025 at 6:58 am
caught in the branches
of memory
one shadow
January 29th, 2025 at 11:44 am
that winter when
everything stopped
deepening snow
January 29th, 2025 at 3:51 pm
deep winter –
childhood returns
in the shadow of the swing
January 29th, 2025 at 3:55 pm
the silent presence
of the shadows…
memories of that far away winter