We’re now accepting submissions! To submit, visit https://tinywords.com/submit/
New ice: Check out this photograph for inspiration and give us your poems in the comments.
Welcome to the new issue of tinywords! Here are two haiku to get us started.
We?ve published the last poem from issue 13.1 and are now open for submissions for our next issue.
Time for another writing prompt! Please give us short poems inspired by the image in this post.
Writing Prompt Winner: Polona Oblak
parting clouds
a view of the summit
i didn’t reach
We are nearing the end of tinywords 13.2 and will begin accepting submissions for our next issue on October 1st, 2013.
Photo prompt for tiny poems inspired by autumn in the park.
We’ve got the winner of our writing prompt here, and the new issue starts on Monday.
Here’s the image we’ve chosen as a writing prompt for the upcoming issue, 14.1
Now, we arrive at the doorstep of another spring. (introduction)
Well, we’ve reached the end of tinywords 14.1. We’ll begin accepting submissions for our next issue tomorrow, and will accept submissions through
Writing prompt for issue 14.2 — a bench along Asilomar.
The summer garden may be going to seed but we’re here with a fresh supply of poems to sustain us through the end of the year.
Submissions for tinywords 15.1 are open, from now until January 15.
It’s another new year and with it another writing prompt from your friends here at tinywords. This photo is courtesy of writer, blogger, photographer Dave
We are accepting submissions for our next issue, from now until July 25.
We hope you?ll look up and be inspired by Michele L. Harvey’s airy vision of summer, ?Firmament.”
Time for a fresh harvest of daily poems! Also: Writing prompt winners.
Going forward, tinywords will be accepting submissions twice a year, in February and in August.
We invite you to set this photo of Antelope Canyon to your own words and submit your short poems here.
So begins issue #16.1.
Issue 16.1 has ended, and submissions for the next issue will be accepted Aug. 1-31.
Post your haiku inspired by this photo, and we’ll select the best to start our next issue.
Congratulations to Marie Louise Munro and Julie Warther, who kick things off with their winning submissions to our photo prompt.
That wraps up issue 16.2. We are now accepting submissions for our next issue!
What do you see in this photo? Let us know in a poem, in the comment box on this page.
We begin issue 17.1 with the two winners of our most recent photo prompt.
With Dave Serjeant?s ?last one in? we wrap up issue # 17.1 of tinywords.
In this writing prompt we share a scene from a rover’s point of view.
Welcome to the new issue, and read the haiku that won our writing prompt, by Sam Bateman.
Issue 17.2 has ended. We’ll accept submissions for the next issue from Feb. 1 to Feb. 28.
Writing prompt for issue 18.1: Texas bluebonnets.
Welcome back to another issue of tinywords.
In keeping with our spring floral visual theme begun with our bluebonnet photo prompt, our backdrop for tinywords 18.1
With Susan Mallernee?s “summer’s end” tinywords 18.1 also comes to an end. Our new submission period starts August 1, 2018.
Next issue’s photo prompt: A dark and stormy night
Congratulations to our writing prompt winners — Helen Buckingham, Bill Gottlieb, and Arlene Teck — whose poems appear below.
With Joanne E. Miller’s poem “every love story”?tinywords?18.2 also has ended. Thank you to all our subscribers and readers for dropping by.
We begin our 19th year with an international crop of daily poems that will take us deep into the dog days of summer here in the northern hemisphere. For this issue’s
To keep things interesting while we work on the new issue, we present a photo in search of a poem.
Welcome to our semi-annual harvest of small poems – starting with our two photo-prompt winners.
The entire month of February is the time to send us your small poems, haiga, or brief haibun for the new issue of TINYWORDS 20.1.
Now that’s a headline worth celebrating. Here we are, nearly twenty years after Dylan Tweney started publishing tiny poems, one per day, like a daily vitamin
You still have about half of August to send us your small poems, haiga, or brief haibun to be considered for our next issue: tinywords 20.2.
Congratulations to Michael Henry Lee and Jennifer Thompson who open the new issue with their winning poems inspired by our photo prompt.
November 2020 marks the 20th?year of publication for?tinywords.
Send us your small poems, haiga, or brief haibun to be considered for our next issue!
Our new background image for issue 21.1?can be seen as a welcome reminder that we humans do overcome incredible obstacles.
tinywords will pause for a few weeks while we receive submissions and prepare the next issue. And we have a new photo prompt!
New issue and winners of the photo prompt: To all of the poets who sent in their poems for 21.2, and to the readers who return year after year, we say thank you.
tinywords is now accepting submissions, through Feb. 28. Also, we have a photo prompt!
Welcome to the latest issue, and congratulations to Sam Bateman who opens this issue with his winning poem inspired by our photo prompt of a rural Arizona road.
tinywords 22.1 has now ended. The submissions window is open for the month of August — and we have a new photo prompt.
As the seasons change once again around this blue planet it is again a privilege for us here at TINYWORDS to present many voices from around the globe. Welcome to issue
tinywords 22.2 has now ended. We are now accepting submissions for our next issue, as well as poems in response to our latest writing prompt.
Welcome to the newest issue of tinywords — 23.1 — and our announcement of the latest photo prompt winners.
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
Welcome to tinywords issue 23.2. Congratulations to Ana Drobot and Alan Summers, who open the new issue with their winning poems inspired by our prompt image.
Tinywords 23.2 has now ended with Paul David Mena’s senryu “smooth jazz”. We will be on pause until the next issue, 24.1, begins at the end of March.
Welcome to the newest issue of tinywords—24.1. We are now closing in on a quarter century of sharing tiny poems with the world—quite a collaborative accomplishment.
tinywords 24.1 has now ended. We will be on pause until the next issue, 24.2, begins at the end of September.
Congratulations to our writing prompt winner, Claudette Russell, and welcome to a new season of tinywords with the start of issue 24.2.
tinywords 24.2 has ended, and the submission window for tinywords 25.1 will be open in February. In the meantime, here is a photo to inspire your haiku writing.
Welcome to tinywords 25.1, which starts next week. Today, we’re sharing the winners of our winter writing prompt.