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General Submissions

Issue Nine: Inventory 

Start making a list. For Issue 9, we're asking you for your best inventory poems, also known as list or catalog poems. As the name suggests, an inventory poem is a form + device that rely on an inventory of people, objects, images, characteristics, ideas, emotions, etc.

The list may explicitly or implicitly convey or evoke a particular emotion, realization, or idea/meaning. You can also look at litanies for inspiration.

Both the Academy of American Poets + The Poetry Foundation have some great resources + examples: List Poems,  Taking Stock with the Catalog Poem, + Litany Poems.

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.

 

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 Work should be your own + unpublished.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 + also make sure that your poem is a list or contains a list.

Submissions: May 1, 2025 through the last day of May.

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  • At least eighty (80) percent of poems should be new + unpublished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

Submissions: Open Jan. 31, 2025 with submissions open through February

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Print Anthology Theme: TBD

Next anthology's theme will be announced in Fall 2025.

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.

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. 


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

 

Submissions: Closed.

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