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Now accepting submissions for issue 13.1

We’re now accepting submissions! To submit, visit https://tinywords.com/submit/
Posted on 20 December 201221 January 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes7 Comments on Now accepting submissions for issue 13.1

New ice

New ice: Check out this photograph for inspiration and give us your poems in the comments.
Posted on 21 January 201327 December 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 13.1Tags ice, winter, writing prompt208 Comments on New ice

Tinywords 13.1 Begins

Welcome to the new issue of tinywords! Here are two haiku to get us started.
Posted on 13 February 201313 February 2013Author The EditorsCategories Issue 13.117 Comments on Tinywords 13.1 Begins

tinywords 13.2 coming soon.

We?ve published the last poem from issue 13.1 and are now open for submissions for our next issue.
Posted on 5 May 20136 May 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes4 Comments on tinywords 13.2 coming soon.

tinywords invites you to get inspired

Time for another writing prompt! Please give us short poems inspired by the image in this post.
Posted on 17 May 20132 June 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes94 Comments on tinywords invites you to get inspired
Writing Prompt Winner: Polona Oblak parting clouds a view of the summit i didn’t reach
Posted on 8 July 20137 July 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 13.219 Comments on

Submissions for tinywords 13.3

We are nearing the end of tinywords 13.2 and will begin accepting submissions for our next issue on October 1st, 2013.
Posted on 29 September 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes23 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 13.3

Writing prompt for issue 13.3

Photo prompt for tiny poems inspired by autumn in the park.
Posted on 18 October 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes111 Comments on Writing prompt for issue 13.3

Welcome to t i n y w o r d s issue # 13.3

We’ve got the winner of our writing prompt here, and the new issue starts on Monday.
Posted on 15 November 201315 November 2013Author The EditorsCategories Issue 13.38 Comments on Welcome to t i n y w o r d s issue # 13.3

Writing prompt for issue 14.1

Here’s the image we’ve chosen as a writing prompt for the upcoming issue, 14.1
Posted on 1 March 20142 April 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes110 Comments on Writing prompt for issue 14.1

Welcome to tinywords 14.1

Now, we arrive at the doorstep of another spring. (introduction)
Posted on 7 April 20148 April 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 14.16 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 14.1

Submissions for tinywords issue 14.2

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
Posted on 24 July 201424 July 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes17 Comments on Submissions for tinywords issue 14.2

Writing prompt for issue 14.2

Writing prompt for issue 14.2 — a bench along Asilomar.
Posted on 5 August 20144 August 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes153 Comments on Writing prompt for issue 14.2

Welcome to T I N Y W O R D S, Issue 14.2

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.
Posted on 15 September 201415 September 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 14.24 Comments on Welcome to T I N Y W O R D S, Issue 14.2

Submissions for tinywords 15.1

Submissions for tinywords 15.1 are open, from now until January 15.
Posted on 11 December 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes4 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 15.1

Writing prompt for Issue 15.1

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
Posted on 27 December 201416 January 2015Author The EditorsCategories Editor's NotesTags winter, writing prompt216 Comments on Writing prompt for Issue 15.1

Submissions for tinywords 15.2

We are accepting submissions for our next issue, from now until July 25.
Posted on 25 June 201526 July 2015Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes12 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 15.2

Writing prompt for tinywords 15.2

We hope you?ll look up and be inspired by Michele L. Harvey’s airy vision of summer, ?Firmament.”
Posted on 27 July 201520 July 2015Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes86 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 15.2

Welcome to tinywords 15.2

Time for a fresh harvest of daily poems! Also: Writing prompt winners.
Posted on 1 September 201531 August 2015Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 15.218 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 15.2

Submissions for tinywords 16.1

Going forward, tinywords will be accepting submissions twice a year, in February and in August.
Posted on 26 January 20161 February 2016Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes153 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 16.1

Writing prompt for tinywords 16.1

We invite you to set this photo of Antelope Canyon to your own words and submit your short poems here.
Posted on 8 February 20165 March 2016Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes112 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 16.1

Welcome to tinywords 16.1

So begins issue #16.1.
Posted on 21 March 201621 March 2016Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 16.119 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 16.1

Submissions for tinywords 16.2

Issue 16.1 has ended, and submissions for the next issue will be accepted Aug. 1-31.
Posted on 22 July 2016Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes9 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 16.2

Writing prompt for tinywords 16.2

Post your haiku inspired by this photo, and we’ll select the best to start our next issue.
Posted on 16 August 201615 August 2016Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes257 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 16.2

WELCOME to tinywords 16.2

Congratulations to Marie Louise Munro and Julie Warther, who kick things off with their winning submissions to our photo prompt.
Posted on 18 September 201618 September 2016Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 16.222 Comments on WELCOME to tinywords 16.2

Submissions for tinywords 17.1

That wraps up issue 16.2. We are now accepting submissions for our next issue!
Posted on 3 February 201731 January 2017Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes9 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 17.1

Writing prompt for tinywords 17.1

What do you see in this photo? Let us know in a poem, in the comment box on this page.
Posted on 20 February 2017Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes239 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 17.1

Welcome to tinywords 17.1

We begin issue 17.1 with the two winners of our most recent photo prompt.
Posted on 20 March 201726 March 2022Author The EditorsCategories Issue 17.114 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 17.1

Submissions for tinywords 17.2 NOW OPEN

With Dave Serjeant?s ?last one in? we wrap up issue # 17.1 of tinywords.
Posted on 17 July 20173 August 2017Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes7 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 17.2 NOW OPEN

Writing prompt for tinywords 17.2

In this writing prompt we share a scene from a rover’s point of view.
Posted on 14 August 20172 September 2017Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes200 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 17.2

Welcome to tinywords 17.2

Welcome to the new issue, and read the haiku that won our writing prompt, by Sam Bateman.
Posted on 25 September 201725 September 2017Author The EditorsCategories Issue 17.216 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 17.2

Submissions for tinywords 18.1

Issue 17.2 has ended. We’ll accept submissions for the next issue from Feb. 1 to Feb. 28.
Posted on 21 January 2018Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes6 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 18.1

Writing Prompt for tinywords 18.1

Writing prompt for issue 18.1: Texas bluebonnets.
Posted on 5 February 201826 March 2022Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes119 Comments on Writing Prompt for tinywords 18.1

Welcome to tinywords 18.1

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
Posted on 23 March 201826 March 2022Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 18.111 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 18.1

Submissions for tinywords 18.2

With Susan Mallernee?s “summer’s end” tinywords 18.1 also comes to an end. Our new submission period starts August 1, 2018.
Posted on 28 July 201818 August 2018Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes5 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 18.2

Writing prompt for tinywords 18.2

Next issue’s photo prompt: A dark and stormy night
Posted on 18 August 201818 August 2018Author The EditorsCategories Editor's NotesTags photo prompt151 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 18.2

Welcome to Issue 18.2

Congratulations to our writing prompt winners — Helen Buckingham, Bill Gottlieb, and Arlene Teck — whose poems appear below.
Posted on 24 September 201822 September 2018Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 18.215 Comments on Welcome to Issue 18.2

Writing prompt for tinywords 19.1

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.
Posted on 17 February 20193 March 2019Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes93 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 19.1

Welcome to tinywords 19.1

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
Posted on 24 March 201920 March 2019Author The EditorsCategories Issue 19.117 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 19.1

Submissions for TINYWORDS 19.2 and a Writing Prompt

To keep things interesting while we work on the new issue, we present a photo in search of a poem.
Posted on 11 August 201911 August 2019Author The EditorsCategories Editor's NotesTags writing prompt158 Comments on Submissions for TINYWORDS 19.2 and a Writing Prompt

Welcome to tinywords 19.2

Welcome to our semi-annual harvest of small poems – starting with our two photo-prompt winners.
Posted on 20 September 20192 April 2020Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 19.213 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 19.2

Submissions for tinywords 20.1 — and a writing prompt

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.
Posted on 22 February 2020Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes98 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 20.1 — and a writing prompt

tinywords begins its 20th year!

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
Posted on 30 March 20202 April 2020Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 20.112 Comments on tinywords begins its 20th year!

Submissions for tinywords 20.2 and a new writing prompt

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.
Posted on 16 August 2020Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes99 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 20.2 and a new writing prompt

Welcome to 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.
Posted on 27 September 202026 September 2020Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 20.211 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 20.2

20 years of tinywords!

November 2020 marks the 20th?year of publication for?tinywords.
Posted on 14 November 20207 November 2020Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 20.233 Comments on 20 years of tinywords!

Submissions to TINYWORDS 21.1 and a New Writing Prompt

Send us your small poems, haiga, or brief haibun to be considered for our next issue!
Posted on 9 February 202120 February 2021Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes62 Comments on Submissions to TINYWORDS 21.1 and a New Writing Prompt

Welcome to tinywords 21.1

Our new background image for issue 21.1?can be seen as a welcome reminder that we humans do overcome incredible obstacles.
Posted on 22 March 202117 November 2023Author The EditorsCategories Issue 21.17 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 21.1

Submissions to tinywords 21.2 — and a new writing prompt

tinywords will pause for a few weeks while we receive submissions and prepare the next issue. And we have a new photo prompt!
Posted on 25 August 202130 August 2021Author The EditorsCategories Editor's NotesTags writing prompt57 Comments on Submissions to tinywords 21.2 — and a new writing prompt

Welcome to tinywords 21.2

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.
Posted on 27 September 202127 September 2021Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 21.211 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 21.2

Submissions to tinywords 22.1 — and a new writing prompt

tinywords is now accepting submissions, through Feb. 28. Also, we have a photo prompt!
Posted on 13 February 202211 February 2022Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes103 Comments on Submissions to tinywords 22.1 — and a new writing prompt

Welcome to tinywords 22.1

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.
Posted on 27 March 202226 March 2022Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 22.115 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 22.1

Submissions to tinywords 22.2 — and a new writing prompt

tinywords 22.1 has now ended. The submissions window is open for the month of August — and we have a new photo prompt.
Posted on 1 August 2022Author The EditorsCategories Editor's NotesTags writing prompt96 Comments on Submissions to tinywords 22.2 — and a new writing prompt

Welcome to tinywords 22.2

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
Posted on 19 September 202216 September 2022Author The EditorsCategories Issue 22.210 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 22.2

Submissions to tinywords 23.1 — and a new writing prompt

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.
Posted on 1 February 202329 January 2023Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes78 Comments on Submissions to tinywords 23.1 — and a new writing prompt

Welcome to tinywords 23.1

Welcome to the newest issue of tinywords — 23.1 — and our announcement of the latest photo prompt winners.
Posted on 20 March 202319 March 2023Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 23.15 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 23.1

Submissions to tinywords 23.2 — and a new writing prompt

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
Posted on 17 August 202313 August 2023Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 23.146 Comments on Submissions to tinywords 23.2 — and a new writing prompt

Welcome to TINYWORDS 23.2

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.
Posted on 25 September 202322 September 2023Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 23.211 Comments on Welcome to TINYWORDS 23.2

Submissions to tinywords 24.1 — and a new writing prompt

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.
Posted on 5 February 20241 March 2024Author The EditorsCategories Editor's NotesTags photo prompt68 Comments on Submissions to tinywords 24.1 — and a new writing prompt

Welcome to tinywords 24.1

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.
Posted on 25 March 202422 March 2024Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 24.113 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 24.1

Submissions to tinywords 24.2 — and a new writing prompt

tinywords 24.1 has now ended. We will be on pause until the next issue, 24.2, begins at the end of September.
Posted on 31 July 202430 July 2024Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes54 Comments on Submissions to tinywords 24.2 — and a new writing prompt

Welcome to tinywords issue 24.2

Congratulations to our writing prompt winner, Claudette Russell, and welcome to a new season of tinywords with the start of issue 24.2.
Posted on 23 September 202423 September 2024Author The EditorsCategories Issue 24.29 Comments on Welcome to tinywords issue 24.2

Submissions to tinywords 25.1 — and a new writing prompt

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.
Posted on 28 January 202520 March 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes124 Comments on Submissions to tinywords 25.1 — and a new writing prompt

Welcome to tinywords issue 25.1

Welcome to tinywords 25.1, which starts next week. Today, we’re sharing the winners of our winter writing prompt.
Posted on 22 March 202520 March 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 25.115 Comments on Welcome to tinywords issue 25.1
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