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Welcome to TINYWORDS issue 26.1

The flowering cherry tree has been the subject of countless haiku. And with good reason. These ephemeral blossoms, which provide the background image for TINYWORDS
Posted on 21 March 202615 March 2026Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 26.14 Comments on Welcome to TINYWORDS issue 26.1

Submissions for Issue 26.1 – and a new prompt

TINYWORDS 25.2 came to a close with Nivedita N’s haiku “lone walk”.  We will take a pause now while we work on the next issue, 26.1, that will begin in late March. Submissions
Posted on 19 January 202619 January 2026Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes94 Comments on Submissions for Issue 26.1 – and a new prompt

Welcome to tinywords issue 25.2

The background image for 25.2 by Mark Searle is of another castle ruin, juxtaposed against the land, sea, and open sky: Rossbrin Castle in County Cork, Ireland. A bit
Posted on 20 September 202519 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 25.2Tags Editor's Notes6 Comments on Welcome to tinywords issue 25.2

Submissions open for Issue 25.2 – and a new prompt

Castles of Munster: Arden tenant Co. Cork © Mike Searle cc-by-sa/2.0 :: Geograph Ireland  TINYWORDS 25.1 came to a close with Joanne Morcom’s haiku “ghost town”.
Posted on 31 July 20252 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's NotesTags photo prompt85 Comments on Submissions open for Issue 25.2 – and a new prompt

Welcome to tinywords issue 25.1

The background image for our newest issue is a spring photo by Matthew Bellemare. What better way to begin this new issue than with a field of crocuses? These delicate
Posted on 22 March 202520 March 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 25.115 Comments on Welcome to tinywords issue 25.1

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
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 24.2

The background image for our newest issue is a photo by Melodie Mesiano taken at the Storm King Art Center in Orange County, New York with Mark Di Suvero’s sculpture
Posted on 23 September 202423 September 2024Author The EditorsCategories Issue 24.29 Comments on Welcome to tinywords issue 24.2

Submissions to tinywords 24.2 — and a new writing prompt

tinywords 24.1 has now ended with Maeve O’Sullivan’s haiku “I shake the sand.” We will be on pause until the next issue, 24.2, begins at the end of September. The submission
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 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 24.1 — 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. The submission window
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 23.2

Our new background image for this issue is of a traditional torii gate near Kyoto, Japan. This striking image, by Jason Goh from Pixabay, is one similar to those that
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 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 23.1

Welcome to the newest issue of tinywords — 23.1. That means we’ve been sharing daily poems with all of you for 23 years strong. Quite an collaborative
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 23.1 — and a new writing prompt

tinywords 22.2 has now ended with Kerry J. Heckman’s “telescope images”. The submission window for tinywords 23.1 will open on February 1st and remain open until
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 22.2

Our new background image for this issue is of a bioluminescent moon jellyfish.  A beautiful representative of the myriad of lifeforms that make their home within
Posted on 19 September 202216 September 2022Author The EditorsCategories Issue 22.210 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 22.2

Submissions to tinywords 22.2 — and a new writing prompt

tinywords 22.1 has now ended with Bryan Rickert’s haiku “departing summer”. The submission window for tinywords 22.2 will open on August 1st and remain open until
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 22.1

Our new background image for this issue is of a magnificent old saguaro reaching up into an Arizona blue sky. A picture of hope and health in the form of a long-lived cacti
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 22.1 — 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
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 21.2

Our new background image for this issue is of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains taken in the state of Tennessee. There is nothing quite like the majesty of a mountain
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 21.2 — and a new writing prompt

The heat of summer is still with us here in the northern hemisphere but fall is on the way.? TINYWORDS 21.1?has now ended with Joanne van Helvoort?s ??deep autumn?.
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 21.1

Our new background image for issue 21.1 can be seen as a welcome reminder that we humans do overcome incredible obstacles. And so we have begun to move in the right direction
Posted on 22 March 202117 November 2023Author The EditorsCategories Issue 21.17 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 21.1

Submissions to TINYWORDS 21.1 and a New Writing Prompt

Winter is still in full swing here in the northern hemisphere but spring is on the way.? TINYWORDS 20.2?has now ended with Victor Ortiz?s haiku ?last light.”
Posted on 9 February 202120 February 2021Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes62 Comments on Submissions to TINYWORDS 21.1 and a New Writing Prompt

20 years of tinywords!

November 2020 marks the 20th year of publication for tinywords. The brainchild of founding editor Dylan Tweney, what began as a simple personal e-mail
Posted on 14 November 20207 November 2020Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 20.233 Comments on 20 years of tinywords!

Welcome to tinywords 20.2

The background image for issue 20.2  is of one of two apartment towers in Milan, Italy known as Vertical Forest.  This melding of nature
Posted on 27 September 202026 September 2020Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 20.211 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 20.2

Submissions for tinywords 20.2 and a new writing prompt

Summer is winding down here in the northern hemisphere and tinywords 20.1 has now ended with Ann K. Schwader’s haiku “in the space”. The submission
Posted on 16 August 2020Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes99 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 20.2 and a new 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 20.1 — and a writing prompt

Spring is just a few weeks away here in the northern hemisphere and TINYWORDS 19.2 has ended with Marrietta McGregor’s haiku “spring breeze”
Posted on 22 February 2020Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes98 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 20.1 — and a writing prompt

Welcome to tinywords 19.2

Welcome to our semi-annual harvest of small poems. In this issue we share an international array of poets. The background image for 19.2 is a familiar late summer and
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 19.2 and a Writing Prompt

Olivier Schopfer’s poem “sunlight on a crow’s wings” closed out another issue of TINYWORDS. Now is your chance. The submission window
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 19.1

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

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 Issue 18.2

Welcome back to another issue of TINYWORDS. Congratulations to our writing prompt winners — Helen Buckingham, Bill Gottlieb, and Arlene Teck — whose
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 18.2

There’s nothing like a good summer thunderstorm to set the hairs on your arm on end. When the dark night sky flashes bright with lightning you know you’re
Posted on 18 August 201817 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's NotesTags photo prompt151 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 18.2

Submissions for tinywords 18.2

With Susan Mallernee’s “summer’s end” tinywords 18.1 also comes to an end. Thank you to all our subscribers and readers for dropping by.
Posted on 28 July 201818 August 2018Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes5 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 18.2

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

Writing Prompt for tinywords 18.1

The thing about a writing life is that you never know where the path is going to lead. Here in North America spring is just around the corner and in this photo image by Jim
Posted on 5 February 201826 March 2022Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes119 Comments on Writing Prompt for tinywords 18.1

Submissions for tinywords 18.1

With Hannah Mahoney’s “the high meadow” we wrap up issue #17.2 of tinywords. Thank you to all our subscribers and readers for dropping by. It’s
Posted on 21 January 201817 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes6 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 18.1

Welcome to tinywords 17.2

Welcome back to another issue of T I N Y W O R D S . In keeping with our out-of-this-world visual theme begun with our photo prompt from Mars, our backdrop for 
Posted on 25 September 201717 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Issue 17.216 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 17.2

Writing prompt for tinywords 17.2

Welcome to Mars. Plenty of room to roam and scout out that perfect picnic spot. Or maybe you see something entirely different. In this writing prompt we share a scene
Posted on 14 August 201717 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes200 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 17.2

Submissions for tinywords 17.2 NOW OPEN

With Dave Serjeant?s ?last one in? we wrap up issue # 17.1 of?tinywords. Thank you to all our subscribers and readers for dropping by. It?s time now to begin again. Our
Posted on 17 July 20173 August 2017Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes7 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 17.2 NOW OPEN

Welcome to tinywords 17.1

We begin our new issue 17.1 with a double dose of nature’s visual fireworks. First, there are the myriad of colorful fish darting around this lively coral reef
Posted on 20 March 201726 March 2022Author The EditorsCategories Issue 17.114 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 17.1

Writing prompt for tinywords 17.1

A mainstay of haiku and much of short form poetry is seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. This issue’s writing prompt features the interaction of charged
Posted on 20 February 201716 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes239 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 17.1

Submissions for tinywords 17.1

With Dietmar Tauchner?s ?closing time? we wrap up issue #16.2 of tinywords. Thank you to all our subscribers and readers for dropping by. It?s time now to make it all
Posted on 3 February 201731 January 2017Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes9 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 17.1

WELCOME to tinywords 16.2

Now these are some big old pines, courtesy of Jay Mantri. Legend has it that John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club and renowned naturalist, used to climb trees like these
Posted on 18 September 201616 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 16.222 Comments on WELCOME to tinywords 16.2

Writing prompt for tinywords 16.2

  Sometimes, a picture can trigger words. An image elicits emotion. This is a guiding principle behind the writing of haiku. And perhaps other short poems. While
Posted on 16 August 201615 August 2016Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes257 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 16.2

Submissions for tinywords 16.2

With Bouwe Brouwer’s “abandoned beach house,” we wrap up issue #16.1 of tinywords. Thanks to everyone for dropping by. Let’s do it again.
Posted on 22 July 201613 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes9 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 16.2

Welcome to tinywords 16.1

Sixteen years of tinywords! Whoever would’ve thought way back when how crucial a poem-a-day could be. So begins issue #16.1. This new gathering of poets will
Posted on 21 March 201614 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 16.119 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 16.1

Writing prompt for tinywords 16.1

It?s another new year and with it another writing prompt from your friends here at tinywords. A writer’s inspiration is a mystery indeed and this shaft of light
Posted on 8 February 20165 March 2016Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes112 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 16.1

Submissions for tinywords 16.1

Thanks everyone for reading your daily dose of tinywords. Barbara Kaufman’s haiga “Wildflower Walk” closes out issue 15.2. That means we can
Posted on 26 January 201612 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes153 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 16.1

Welcome to tinywords 15.2

Time for a fresh harvest of daily poems that will take us from summer’s end, through fall, into winter and the start of a New Year. That’s a lot of ground
Posted on 1 September 201512 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 15.218 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 15.2

Writing prompt for tinywords 15.2

As we assemble the new issue of 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 201512 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes86 Comments on Writing prompt for tinywords 15.2

Submissions for tinywords 15.2

Billy Collins’ poem “Awake in the dark”  closes out tinywords issue 15.1. Now it’s time to OPEN our next reading period for our next issue,
Posted on 25 June 201512 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes12 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 15.2

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 15.1

With Ed Markowski’s holiday poem we conclude tinywords issue 14.2. And OPEN our next reading period for tinywords 15.1. Thanks all for visiting. Now’s
Posted on 11 December 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes4 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 15.1

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

It has been about 14.2 years since our founder Dylan Tweney started this daily delivery of small poems on the web. And we can’t thank everyone enough for turning
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

Writing prompt for issue 14.2

For the tinywords issue 14.2 writing prompt we?ve chosen a bench along Asilomar Beach, Pacific Grove, California. (Image courtesy of Craig.) We hope you?ll have
Posted on 5 August 20144 August 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes153 Comments on Writing prompt for issue 14.2

Submissions for tinywords issue 14.2

It’s that time again. Time to submit. We’ve reached the end of tinywords 14.1. There will now be a brief pause while we prepare the next issue. Starting
Posted on 24 July 201424 July 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes17 Comments on Submissions for tinywords issue 14.2

Welcome to tinywords 14.1

Now, we arrive at the doorstep of another spring. Another issue of tinywords: # 14.1 which translates to the first issue of its fourteenth year in existence. Always
Posted on 7 April 201411 September 2025Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 14.16 Comments on Welcome to tinywords 14.1

Writing prompt for issue 14.1

  So, here’s the image we’ve chosen as a writing prompt for the upcoming issue 14.1: Spring in Cascade Canyon, Mill Valley, California, courtesy
Posted on 1 March 20142 April 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes110 Comments on Writing prompt for issue 14.1

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

Hello and welcome to the newest issue of t i n y w o r d s, which we are happy to present to you with the help of a wide range of poets hailing from Canada to Sweden, India to
Posted on 15 November 20138 September 2025Author 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 13.3

Time for a quiet autumn stroll in the park while we assemble tinywords 13.3. Okay, this issue’s photo prompt is from New York City’s Central Park so you’re
Posted on 18 October 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes111 Comments on Writing prompt for issue 13.3

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. tinywords 13.3 will again be an open issue, without
Posted on 29 September 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes23 Comments on Submissions for tinywords 13.3
Welcome to T I N Y W O R D S issue # 13.2. We would like to thank all the poets who contributed their words to this issue’s writing prompt based on Ray Rasmussen’s
Posted on 8 July 20137 July 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 13.219 Comments on

tinywords invites you to get inspired

Time for another writing?prompt. While we are assembling the next issue, tinywords invites you to get inspired by Ray?Rasmussen?s photograph above,?taken in Willmore
Posted on 17 May 20132 June 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes94 Comments on tinywords invites you to get inspired

tinywords 13.2 coming soon.

We?ve published the last poem from issue 13.1 of tinywords?and are now open for submissions for our next issue. tinywords 13.2 will again be an?open issue, with no
Posted on 5 May 20136 May 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes4 Comments on tinywords 13.2 coming soon.

Tinywords 13.1 Begins

We asked for your input and you sure gave it to us. Within a short time period you shared more than 200 responses to our photo prompt. It really was a flurry of words. Thanks.
Posted on 13 February 201313 February 2013Author The EditorsCategories Issue 13.117 Comments on Tinywords 13.1 Begins

New ice

Tinywords Invites You to Get Inspired And now for something a little different. While we are assembling the next issue, tinywords invites you to get inspired by Dave
Posted on 21 January 201327 December 2014Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes, Issue 13.1Tags ice, winter, writing prompt208 Comments on New ice

Now accepting submissions for issue 13.1

We?ve published the last poem from issue 12.1 of tinywords and are now open for submissions for our next issue. tinywords 13.1 will again be an open issue, without a
Posted on 20 December 201221 January 2013Author The EditorsCategories Editor's Notes7 Comments on Now accepting submissions for issue 13.1
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