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General Submissions

Issue Eight: tiny golden shovels

Poet Kip Knott, aka Mr. tiny wren, is in the mood to read your golden shovel poems. According to the Academy of American Poets, "The golden shovel is a poetic form wherein each word of one line from another poem serves as the end word of each line for a newly constructed poem."  

 

Remember, 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. You may want to select a favorite verse rather than an entire poem for your tiny golden shovel.​

 

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 Work should be your own + unpublished.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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Submissions: Will open Nov. 1. 2024 and close Nov. 30

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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  • At least eighty (80) percent of poems should be new + unpublished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: Closed. Will open Jan. 2025

Submit a tiny zine
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Print Anthology Theme: Earth

Call for submissions! With special guest editor and wrenster Dana Graef!


How do you know earth? Time stuck in squelching mud; digging your hands into soil; planting seeds or pulling up roots. A landslide. A drought. Gravity, keeping you. What does earth evoke? What does it make possible? 


Send us your poems of mud and soil, gardens and groundedness, land and landscapes. In tiny form, we welcome your experiences, ways of knowing, and creative interpretations on the theme.

 

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: September 16 thru October 31 (Deadline extended)

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