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Welcome to tinywords issue 25.2

Welcome to a new issue and congratulations to our three writing prompt winners, Sam Bateman, Dave Bonta, and Rich Schilling, whose poems appear below.

Submissions open for Issue 25.2 – and a new prompt

Submissions to TINYWORDS 25.2 are now open AUGUST 1-31, 2025. And we have 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Welcome to tinywords 23.1

Welcome to the newest issue of tinywords — 23.1 — and our announcement of the latest photo prompt winners.

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.

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

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.

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.

Submissions to tinywords 22.1 — and a new writing prompt

tinywords is now accepting submissions, through Feb. 28. Also, we have a photo 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.

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!

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.

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!

20 years of tinywords!

November 2020 marks the 20th?year of publication for?tinywords.

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.

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.

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

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.

Welcome to tinywords 19.2

Welcome to our semi-annual harvest of small poems – starting with our two photo-prompt winners.

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.

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

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.

Welcome to Issue 18.2

Congratulations to our writing prompt winners — Helen Buckingham, Bill Gottlieb, and Arlene Teck — whose poems appear below.

Writing prompt for tinywords 18.2

Next issue’s photo prompt: A dark and stormy night

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.

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

Writing Prompt for tinywords 18.1

Writing prompt for issue 18.1: Texas bluebonnets.

Submissions for tinywords 18.1

Issue 17.2 has ended. We’ll accept submissions for the next issue from Feb. 1 to Feb. 28.

Welcome to tinywords 17.2

Welcome to the new issue, and read the haiku that won our writing prompt, by Sam Bateman.

Writing prompt for tinywords 17.2

In this writing prompt we share a scene from a rover’s point of view.

Submissions for tinywords 17.2 NOW OPEN

With Dave Serjeant?s ?last one in? we wrap up issue # 17.1 of tinywords.

Welcome to tinywords 17.1

We begin issue 17.1 with the two winners of our most recent photo prompt.

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.

Submissions for tinywords 17.1

That wraps up issue 16.2. We are now accepting submissions for our next issue!

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.

Writing prompt for tinywords 16.2

Post your haiku inspired by this photo, and we’ll select the best to start our next issue.

Submissions for tinywords 16.2

Issue 16.1 has ended, and submissions for the next issue will be accepted Aug. 1-31.

Welcome to tinywords 16.1

So begins issue #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.

Submissions for tinywords 16.1

Going forward, tinywords will be accepting submissions twice a year, in February and in August.

Welcome to tinywords 15.2

Time for a fresh harvest of daily poems! Also: Writing prompt winners.

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.”

Submissions for tinywords 15.2

We are accepting submissions for our next issue, from now until July 25.

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

Submissions for tinywords 15.1

Submissions for tinywords 15.1 are open, from now until January 15.

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.

Writing prompt for issue 14.2

Writing prompt for issue 14.2 — a bench along Asilomar.

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

Welcome to tinywords 14.1

Now, we arrive at the doorstep of another spring. (introduction)

Writing prompt for issue 14.1

Here’s the image we’ve chosen as a writing prompt for the upcoming issue, 14.1

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.

Writing prompt for issue 13.3

Photo prompt for tiny poems inspired by autumn in the park.

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.

Writing Prompt Winner: Polona Oblak parting clouds a view of the summit i didn’t reach

tinywords invites you to get inspired

Time for another writing prompt! Please give us short poems inspired by the image in this post.

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.

Tinywords 13.1 Begins

Welcome to the new issue of tinywords! Here are two haiku to get us started.

New ice

New ice: Check out this photograph for inspiration and give us your poems in the comments.

Now accepting submissions for issue 13.1

We’re now accepting submissions! To submit, visit https://tinywords.com/submit/