Category: Editor’s Notes

tinywords got its start with a simple inspiration: Haiku are perfectly suited to the 160-character limit imposed by SMS text messaging. Now, a similar notion has

This is how I hope to publish the new tinywords: I will arrange collections of short poetry into issues. There may also be art and essays, perhaps even a review or two.

UPDATE 11/25/2009: We are no longer accepting submissions. Thanks to everyone who submitted poetry or art for this issue. tinywords is now accepting submissions

Haiku resume this week. In the meantime, hear haiku on NPR: http://www.onpointradio.org/2011/01/haiku

Apologies for the delay! We have 2 more poems in issue 11.3.

It’s been awhile, but tinywords will begin publishing a new issue before long.

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

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.

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.

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

Hello, haiku fans: tinywords resumes Monday with a new issue!

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.

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With Susan Mallernee?s “summer’s end” tinywords 18.1 also comes to an end. Our new submission period starts August 1, 2018.

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.

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.

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.

Send us your small poems, haiga, or brief haibun to be considered for our next issue!

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

tinywords 24.1 has now ended. We will be on pause until the next issue, 24.2, begins at the end of September.

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.