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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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Written Tales Magazine Volume III | Tis The Season - Written Tales Written Tales v3: a collection of poetry and short fiction about the seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall shared through holiday themes and personal moments.

Written Tales v3: a collection of poetry and short fiction about the seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall shared through holiday themes and personal moments.

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Written Tales Magazine Volume II: Night Terrors. - Written Tales An early Written Tales volume featuring horror poetry and short fiction—nightmares, hauntings, isolation, and fear.

Written Tales Magazine Volume II: Night Terrors

An early Written Tales volume featuring horror poetry and short fiction—nightmares, hauntings, isolation, and fear.

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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.

In the Sewers — Roman Jones’s Flash Fiction - Written Tales

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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.

Bohemian Love Song — Laura Turzo’s Short Story - Written Tales

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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.

The Pajama Party — LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s Poem - Written Tales

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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.

Two Worlds on the Same Planet — Kiri Winder’s Poem - Written Tales

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Written Tales Chapbook I: Easter - Written Tales Written Tales Chapbook I presents poetry and short fiction centered on Easter, faith, memory, and renewal, featuring contemporary writers alongside historical and inspirational works.

Written Tales Chapbook I presents poetry and short fiction centered on Easter, faith, memory, and renewal, featuring contemporary writers alongside historical and inspirational works.

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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.

Nanty Glo — Paul Smith’s Short Fiction - Written Tales

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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.

Spiritus Loci — Thomas Phalen’s Non-Fiction Story - Written Tales

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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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Companion Animal — Beth Kanell’s Poem - Written Tales A dog interrupts. One hand drops the other types. Tea cools. The kitchen holds worn recipes. Next month the dog leaves. Grief has a scent.

Companion Animal — Beth Kanell’s Poem - Written Tales

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Perry’s Travels — Phil Temples’s Short Story - Written Tales Terri and Sam compare notes during their brief shift overlap, watching Perry arrive looking as if he’s been out all night, the two of them standing in the hallway comparing notes.

Perry’s Travels — Phil Temples’s Short Story - Written Tales

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Invocation — Jane Lott’s Poem - Written Tales A boy sleeps on the bench in the chicken coop, pulling a sheet over his face in the dark before rushing into the hot Fresno morning to pump cold water into his cupped hands.

A boy sleeps on the bench in the chicken coop, pulling a sheet over his face in the dark before rushing into the hot Fresno morning to pump cold water into his cupped hands.

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Broken Head — Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s Short Fiction - Written Tales A stone head lies on the staircase beneath Jupiter’s statue while Ingrid studies the shadows for whoever might have knocked it loose, tugging her husband’s arm as they decide to leave.

Broken Head — Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s Short Fiction - Written Tales

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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

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Life is a Grave — Jonathan Chibuike Ukah’s Poem - Written Tales In the dark of a grave, he hits the coffin roof and calls out, everything around him turning to ash as a single flower opens its dying scent toward the sky.

In the dark of a grave, he hits the coffin roof and calls out, everything around him turning to ash as a single flower opens its dying scent toward the sky.

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Serpents Song — Laurie B. Spellman’s Short Story - Written Tales Elira’s voice carries them through castle gates and across kingdoms, as they march forward, unaware of the Gorgon’s curse approaching.

Elira’s voice carries them through castle gates and across kingdoms, as they march forward, unaware of the Gorgon’s curse approaching.

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