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Tanka Poems, How To Write Them With Examples — Article by Written Tales Written Tales walks through the shape of a Tanka, lingering on its sensory openings and the pivot line that turns the poem, using a brief example to show how the form gathers its weight.

Written Tales walks through the shape of a Tanka, lingering on its sensory openings and the pivot line that turns the poem, using a brief example to show how the form gathers its weight.

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Meet the Quatrain — Written Tales Article This Written Tales feature introduces the quatrain—four lines, fifteen forms, infinite emotion. It is a frame for the rhythm of daily life and the sudden changes that shape our words.

This Written Tales feature introduces the quatrain—four lines, fifteen forms, infinite emotion. It is a frame for the rhythm of daily life and the sudden changes that shape our words.

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Meet the Minute Poem — Article by Written Tales A brief, tight form takes shape through counted lines and steady rhythm, offering poets a small frame to work within while inviting members to share what those sixty measured seconds sparked.

Meet the Minute Poem — Article by Written Tales

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The Quiet Anatomy — Topher Shields’s Poem - Written Tales Syllables surface where lungs collapse. Light sifts through silence. Something unnamed settles inside the scar, humming through marrow shaped by fracture, held quiet beneath the weight of what remains.

The Quiet Anatomy — Topher Shields’s Poem - Written Tales

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Love Song: A Poem of Friendship and Summer’s Gifts - Written Tales A fragrant tomato, rinsed in summer light, where friendship and nature mingle in everyday beauty.

Love Song: A Poem of Friendship and Summer’s Gifts - Written Tales

A fragrant tomato, rinsed in summer light, where friendship and nature mingle in everyday beauty.

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In Leo’s Bedroom — David Sydney’s Short Fiction - Written Tales The quiet room and short visits. A bedside gathering plays out in low light, where each relative takes a turn, speaking their words, and then sitting in the silence.

In Leo’s Bedroom — David Sydney’s Short Fiction - Written Tales

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Scratchy Love — Arvilla Fee’s Short Fiction - Written Tales A girl counts down four weeks in a group room with folding chairs, a prickly counselor, and notebooks full of assignments, while the words “aged out” sit unanswered in her lap.

Scratchy Love — Arvilla Fee’s Short Fiction - Written Tales

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Storm Watch — Carolyn Henry’s Poem - Written Tales Alone they watch a roaring sea crash into stone, lightning explode, and the horizon shake where water and sky meet. They’re offering a storm without answers.

Alone they watch a roaring sea crash into stone, lightning explode, and the horizon shake where water and sky meet. They’re offering a storm without answers.

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First Blood — Keech Ballard’s Short Story - Written Tales A governess with careful manners listens in a cabinet crowded with old wealth as her employer jokes, misnames her, and assigns a private task that promises instruction beyond books.

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Silent Screams — Traci Jo’s Short Story - Written Tales She stands among flowers and polished wood, eyes closed, rehearsing distance. A sister appears after ten years, bringing shared beds, damp sheets, unspoken nights, and a silence that never learned…

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Written Tales Chapbook VI: Tis The Season - Written Tales Written Tales Chapbook VI features poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction focused on the holiday season, with contributors writing about family, tradition, illness, travel, and winter settings.

Written Tales Chapbook VI features poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction focused on the holiday season, with contributors writing about family, tradition, illness, travel, and winter settings.

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Written Tales Chapbook V: All Hallows Eve - Written Tales Written Tales Chapbook V collects poetry and short fiction centered on Halloween, witches, ritual, mischief, and darker seasonal traditions.

Written Tales Chapbook V collects poetry and short fiction centered on Halloween, witches, ritual, mischief, and darker seasonal traditions.

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Written Tales Chapbook IV: Fall is Here - Written Tales Written Tales Chapbook IV collects poetry and short stories set in autumn, focused on seasonal change, late summer transitions, and the approach of winter.

Written Tales Chapbook IV collects poetry and short stories set in autumn, focused on seasonal change, late summer transitions, and the approach of winter.

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Written Tales Chapbook III: What Freedom Means To Me - Written Tales Written Tales Chapbook III features poetry and short fiction in which each author defines freedom through personal experience, war, religion, culture, and everyday life.

Written Tales Chapbook III features poetry and short fiction in which each author defines freedom through personal experience, war, religion, culture, and everyday life.

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Written Tales Chapbook II: Remembrance - Written Tales Written Tales Chapbook II gathers poetry and short fiction centered on remembrance, including memories, history, war, and loss, organized across three themed sections.

Written Tales Chapbook II gathers poetry and short fiction centered on remembrance, including memories, history, war, and loss, organized across three themed sections.

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In the Sewers — Roman Jones’s Flash Fiction - Written Tales Underground, a child asks why they live without sun or sky as an old woman rises from a makeshift chair, touches his hair, and answers with laughter instead of explanation.

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Bohemian Love Song — Laura Turzo’s Short Story - Written Tales A book opens to a dedication. The page pulls back to a party, a koi pond, a camera clicking, and one snide remark captured instead of a photograph.

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Three Days — David Sydney’s Flash Fiction - Written Tales After three days on a ventilator, a doctor offers hope. The wife pauses, sees the tubes, and asks if recovery might wait, because the silence has been nice.

Three Days — David Sydney’s Flash Fiction - Written Tales

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Hesitancy — David Sydney’s Short Fiction - Written Tales During a routine vaccination visit, a worried owner asks about safety. The veterinarian answers without pause—revealing who the testing was really done on.

During a routine vaccination visit, a worried owner asks about safety. The veterinarian answers without pause—revealing who the testing was really done on.

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The Pajama Party — LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s Poem - Written Tales A pajama party, they said. A child enters surgery instead: lab coats, anesthesia, and panic reframed as outer space while control slips away.

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Delayed — Silva’s Flash Fiction - Written Tales On the final stop of the night, a near miss at a corner becomes fatal when the car reaches the address first, leaving a meal and a body on the asphalt.

Delayed — Silva’s Flash Fiction - Written Tales

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How To Become A Stranger In Your Home — Smith Q. Jallah’s Free Verse Poem - Written Tales A five-part map of how violence at home turns into escape through addiction, until distance is created piece by piece inside familiar walls. Your being.

A five-part map of how violence at home turns into escape through addiction, until distance is created piece by piece inside familiar walls. Your being.

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Phases — Anne Marie Mikusinski’s Free Verse Poem - Written Tales A two-part declaration on why we write: first to ignite and expose, then to preserve what might disappear; risking vulnerability once, then returning to hold what remains.

A two-part declaration on why we write: first to ignite and expose, then to preserve what might disappear; risking vulnerability once, then returning to hold what remains.

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What Love Can Be — Jonathan Chibuike Ukah’s Poem - Written Tales After rage against the sky and stars, love is reconsidered as sound, loss, and a change that refuses to hold or arrive the same way twice.

After rage against the sky and stars, love is reconsidered as sound, loss, and a change that refuses to hold or arrive the same way twice.

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Chapbook Open Call | Poetry, Fiction & Nonfiction - Written Tales Open chapbook call for poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction. Individual pieces only. Rolling acceptance closes after 15 selections.

Open Call — Written Tales Chapbook Vol. XVI
Poetry ~ Short Fiction ~ Flash Fiction ~ Creative Nonfiction

Rolling open call. 15 selections only. Closes when filled. Submit via the site.

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Two Worlds on the Same Planet — Kiri Winder’s Poem - Written Tales Bare feet in sand, stones skipping blue water; later, a ticket booked, mountains ahead, and new friends await as the hunt for a new home begins.

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Nanty Glo — Paul Smith’s Short Fiction - Written Tales Near Nanty-Glo, a long drive wears patience thin as a wife counts the miles as time never seems to end.

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Written Tales Membership – Support Independent Literature Support the Written Tales community and enjoy full access, free submissions, author pages, and member-only challenges. Keep indie literature alive.

Written Tales Membership – Support the Written Tales community and enjoy full access, free submissions, author pages, and member-only challenges. Keep indie literature alive.

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Spiritus Loci — Thomas Phalen’s Non-Fiction Story - Written Tales In 1972, a teenager sits among friends, speaking of Oregon woodland, shared land, and a future cabin with a piano and a desk, while Vietnam and the sixties hum nearby.

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Green Mountain Seasons — Beth Kanell’s Poem - Written Tales Seed catalogues pile up, sprouts crowd a windowsill, knees grind in rocky dirt. By September, apples sweeten and the deer leave bitten vines, a pail waiting at dawn.

Green Mountain Seasons — Beth Kanell’s Poem - Written Tales

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