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tiny wren lit focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (2-3 times per year). Readers can download each issue in a zine format. Home of the tiny zine. Subs closed. Web: https://www.tinywrenlit.com/

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 7d

So glad this poem resonated with you. Thanks for sharing!

tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations to our Best of the Net nominees!

Floral background in the style of William Morris. Text: Best of the Net, tiny wren lit
Memento Mori (8/27/2024)
“Last Wish,” Karen Grace Soans
“Stillborn,” Vic Nogay
“Rupture,” Paul Allatson

Golden Shovel (2/14/2025)
“stable dreams,” Natalie Korman
“Every Falling,” CX Wang
“Words as Homing Pigeons Fly,” Merril D. Smith

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 23d

Just submitted our Best of the Net nominations! The only time we're happy to name names! #BOTN2026

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Sep 6

Elena Zhang

@ezhang77.bsky.social
@tinywrenlit.bsky.social

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Sep 1

Writing or reading a poem or making a zine, tiny labors of love. #laborday2025

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · Aug 24

For #smallpoemsunday
one of my own published by @tinywrenlit.bsky.social

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Aug 17

Definitely follow this amazing poet @ezhang77.bsky.social

Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · Aug 17

My tiny chapbook, “The Moon, My Heart,” is finally available now! So so grateful to @tinywrenlit.bsky.social and Dana Knott for making this dream come true! www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...

The Moon, My Heart (Elena Zhang) | Tiny Wren Lit

Evocative micro-poems inspired by Chinese folklore

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Aug 17

Tiny bursts of beauty. Our latest tiny chap "The Moon, My Heart" by Elena Zhang is now available in the tiny wren shop. www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...

The Moon, My Heart chapbook resting on the sculpture of a merged sun and moon face with a glass tealight in the background.

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Aug 14

Did you know that you can download each issue and make tiny zines?

Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · Aug 9

Love it when @cuttinghail.bsky.social gets published in Tiny Wren Lit because it means I get to do a little zine making. The design on these is just gorgeous 🥰

Image of a zine in progress of being put together, open at some poems by Luca Fois and Janel Pleskač

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Jul 26

Add to your to do list. Issue 9: Inventory is live!

www.tinywrenlit.com/issue-9

Issue 9 | Tiny Wren Lit

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Jul 10

Cover reveal for Elena Zhang's tiny chapbook "The Moon, My Heart" with cover art by Aleah Dye. Coming soon to the tiny wren shop.

A silvery full moon against a background of purple and gray skies and cherry blossoms in the foreground. Text: The Moon, My Heart; poems; Elene Zhang.

tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · May 31

Final call for tiny inventory poems!

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · May 11

tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. #amwriting

Re-opening: tiny wren lit

tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. #amwriting

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · May 6

Send us your tiny inventory/list poems! And, while you're at it, see what you have to submit to these other fine publications. (with love to @chillsubs.bsky.social )

Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · May 5

Lots of international friendly pubs here, love to see it 👏

Submission details: www.chillsubs.com/lists/Your_F...

CHILL SUBS®
10 of Your Favorite Lit Mags Just Opened for Submissions
Tolka Journal
Looking for: Nonfiction
50-Word Stories
Looking for: Fiction
The Deadlands
Looking for: Poetry, Fiction
Split Lip Magazine
Looking for: Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction+
Abyss & Apex
Looking for: Poetry
Kaleidotrope
Looking for: Multimedia
Crannóg
Looking for: Poetry, Fiction
The Stinging Fly
Looking for: Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

The London Magazine Looking for: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Tiny Wren Lit
Looking for: Poetry

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · May 4

Gregory Orr's poem "A Litany" powerfully employs listing + repetition as poetic devices to capture a haunting + tragic moment from his childhood.

A Litany poets.org/poem/litany

We're accepting tiny inventory/list poems throughout May.

A Litany

I remember him falling beside me, the dark stain already seeping across his parka hood. I remember screaming and running the half mile to our house. I remember hiding in my room. I remember that it wa...

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · May 1

Issue 9 submissions are now open with focus on inventory poetry. Start making those lists! You have all of May!

www.tinywrenlit.com/submit

Submit | Tiny Wren Lit

Submit to tiny wren lit

www.tinywrenlit.com

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Apr 30

Love this picture and love your poem!

tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Apr 30

Our top 10 finalists for tiny wren's micro-chapbook contest. Love to everyone who shared their wee poems. So much brilliance!

Image: Wren on a branch
Text: Top Ten Finalists
tiny wren's tiny chaps contest

D.W. Baker, “Digging Someone Else’s Grave”
Sam Calhoun, “Apparitions”
Robert James Cross, “Lucky Number 13”
Eric Hadley, “Misunderstanding Silence”
Laurie Koensgen, “when light breaks clean”
Kelli Lage, “Reservoir Reverie”
Sasha Weiss, “pain clinic party”
Ashley White, “Ten Tiny Poems for One Giant Loss”
A.R. Williams, “Between Worlds and Woods”
Elena Zhang, “The Moon, My Heart”

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Apr 11

Grateful to have your poem as part of the anthology!

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steph @thenowofmylife.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thrilled to have a poem in this anthology by @tinywrenlit.bsky.social 💞 (My first published poem!)

My thanks to the editors, and it's lovely to be among such talented poets! 🥹

My left hand holding a copy of the Earth anthology in front of a green bush with yellow flowers.

The Earth anthology open to the page with my poem, titled 'Archipelago':

Each week a new habitat
forms; in our hands
everything catastrophic

is made small and
removed, a future turned
present.

And so we continue

to become islands
of our own making.

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Mar 27

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Mar 26

Manuscript responses are forthcoming. In the meantime, enjoy these tiny golden shovels by CX Wang.

Every Falling
after "One Heart" by Li Young Lee

The last time we met here even
the wind was a poet, your hair flying
like tossed branches beneath steel clouds. This is
how heartbreak is born:
love is extracted out
of memory, longing out of
nothing

We apple to earth in every ending

after "A Sweetening All Around Me as it Falls" by Jane Hirschfield

October sun scented of new apples
picked at their peak. I thought love
was simply that black seed in earth,
had only one purpose—growing — and
only one end— falling.

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Mar 23

Thanks for the love!🪺

tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Mar 17

Cover reveal for our 3rd print anthology "Earth: Poems of Presence and Possibility," landing soon in the tiny wren shop.

Cover image: “Flower study” by John Jessop Hardwick, 1866.
Text above image: EARTH: Poems of Presence and Possibility.
Text below image: Edited by Dana J. Graef & Dana Knott

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · Feb 20

Lovely golden shovel poem by Leusa Lloyd for a cold winter day.

Nearing Winter

after "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden

Tell the trees to stop
their uncrowning. All
I hear in the wind is the
curlew, set to ticking clocks.

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