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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 open.

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Pick a card. Submissions for Issue Ten: Major Arcana open on Oct. 20th. #majorarcana #tarot #fate #divination #micropoetry
A tarot card from the Major Arcana with a figure of a woman with flowing hair, sitting in the lotus position, and a starburst crown against a dark background. Text: Issue Ten: Major Arcana.
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Cover reveal for Eric Hadley's tiny chapbook "Misunderstanding Silence"
Cover: Black background with rectangle of green and white like a curtain. Text: Misunderstanding Silence: Tiny Poems By Eric Hadley
October 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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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
September 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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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.
August 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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.
July 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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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”
April 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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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.
March 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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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
March 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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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.
February 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Issue 8, our golden shovel issue, is now live: www.tinywrenlit.com/issue-8

Love and appreciation to our wrenster poets, submitters, and readers.
Cover of tiny wren lit, issue 8.1, golden shovel, printable zine. Top of image has a half circle with dark blue, orange, and yellow stripes. Beneath, three crescents from yellow, dark blue, and orange.
February 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Get your tiny poems together. Submission period for tiny chapbook manuscripts opens on Jan. 31.
image: head of a winter wren (troglodytes hiemalis) Text: tiny wren publishing / call for tiny chapbooks /submissions open jan. 31 / visit our Submit page for more details
January 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Excited to share the wrensters we nominated for the Pushcart.
Lined paper torn from notebook taped to a wall. Note lists the nominated poets and their poems: “Introduction” by Elizabeth Anne Schwartz (from Nine Stage of Coming Out/Feb. 2024) “She Strikes the Match” by Arlene Geller (Issue 6/Mar. 2024) “What If—” by Dana Graef (from Vanishing/Apr. 2024) “Miscarriage” by Melissa Joplin Higley (Issue 7/Aug. 2024) “Teeth” by Thom Schramm (Issue 7/Aug. 2024) “All Poems Are About Death” by Paul Hostovsky (Issue 7/Aug. 2024)
December 3, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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Blue Monday
Foreground: Three chapbooks published by tiny wren (under fire | under water; Nine Stages of Coming Out; and Peninsula Middleground: A folkart carving of a sleeping cat on a book Background: Painting of a cat sitting on a table and next to a terracotta pot of flowers; behind the cat, turquoise blue building with a red roof
November 19, 2024 at 4:02 AM