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General Submissions

Issue Eleven: Ekphrastic Poems

More details coming soon...
​Submit up to six (6) tiny poems in a single Word document (.doc or .docx or .pdf). Each poem should be on its own separate page, single-spaced, + in 12-point font, nothing fancy. Work should be your own + unpublished. Before you submit, please read our FAQ page.

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We gravitate toward tiny poems with deep imagery + original, striking figurative language. Read previous issues or buy a tiny chapbook to get a sense of what we like.

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Submissions:  Open July 1, 2026

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tiny wren publishing's tiny chapbooks

tiny wren lit wants your tiny manuscripts of tiny poems to publish in zine format.

 

How tiny? 

  • No more than fifteen (15) lines in length (including stanza breaks)

  • Five (5) to ten (10) lines are our sweet spot

  • Each line should have no more than twenty-five (25) characters, including spaces
     

Submission deets

  • Submit a manuscript of six (6) to fifteen (15) tiny poems in one file (.docx or .pdf)

  • Have one (1) tiny poem per page

  • One submission/manuscript per reading period

  • Manuscript should be cohesive (theme, tone, + style)

  • At least eighty (80) percent of poems should be new + unpublished

  • tiny wren lit does not charge submission fees

 

Accepted manuscripts

  • Authors of chosen manuscripts will receive twenty-five (25) complimentary copies from a print run of seventy-five (75)

  • tiny wren lit will collaborate with authors on zine format + design

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Submissions: Open May 1, 2026

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Print Anthology Theme: Liminality

​Guest editor Jennifer Browne wants your poems that explore liminal spaces for tiny wren's 4th print anthology titled Lim[I]nal. 

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liminal ( adj.)—"of or pertaining to a threshold," 1870, from Latin limen "threshold, cross-piece, sill" (see limit (n.)) + -al (1). Related: Liminality.

 

[Not unrelated: limen led forward subliminal, eliminate, and sublime.]

 

Note: etymology of liminal verbatim from the Online Etymology Dictionary.  

 

We’re seeking poems that stand beside or inside thresholds, be they in nature, in the mind, or in some other blur of boundaries in the Anthropocene. Consider estuaries and forest edges, dusk and fog, the movement of one version of the self into another. 

 

Submit up to six (6) tiny poems in a single Word document (.doc or .docx or .pdf). Each poem should be on its own separate page, single-spaced, + in 12-point font, nothing fancy. Work should be your own + unpublished. Before you submit, please read our FAQ page.

 

We gravitate toward tiny poems with deep imagery + original, striking figurative language. Read previous issues or buy a tiny chapbook to get a sense of what we like.

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Each featured poet will receive a free contributor's copy + 50% off for additional copies.

 

Submissions: Open March 25, 2026

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