February 19, 2024
A blank page waits. Usual prompts stall out. This piece offers alternate angles that unsettle routine, opening new ways to think about prompts and how a small shift can spark...
July 20, 2023
A writer pauses long enough to notice small scenes—shifting light, careful wings, familiar emotions—each moment offering a place where language might take hold and shape itself into something worth keeping.
June 27, 2023
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...
May 5, 2023
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.
April 27, 2023
Written Tales follows the Villanelle from early songs to modern poets, then pauses on its looping lines before inviting writers to try repeating what keeps returning to the page again.
April 6, 2023
Written Tales introduces the Ottava Rima, tracing its path from Italy through Spain and England, grounding the form in history while inviting writers back to the page to practice together.
March 30, 2023
Written Tales notes the early drafts arriving each week, familiar habits on the page, then gently urges writers beyond comfort to feel how form steadies even so-called free verse again.
January 30, 2023
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.
October 29, 2022
Written Tales Chapbook V collects poetry and short fiction centered on Halloween, witches, ritual, mischief, and darker seasonal traditions.
August 18, 2022
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...
June 13, 2022
Written Tales Chapbook IV collects poetry and short stories set in autumn, focused on seasonal change, late summer transitions, and the approach of winter.
June 13, 2022
Written Tales Chapbook III features poetry and short fiction in which each author defines freedom through personal experience, war, religion, culture, and everyday life.