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TELL-TALE INKLINGS
is a literary journal obsessed with narrative poetry and flash fiction.
The emphasis is on character-study narratives. Tasteful black and white ARTWORK is welcome too, especially abandoned sketches, curiosity-piquing photos, and character-revealing self-portraits.
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SUBMISSIONS OPEN for Tell-Tale Inklings #5
DEADLINE: November 25, 2019...subject to change
NOTE: NO FEE and NO PAYMENT, including copies. If not for p.o.d tech. we couldn't afford string to sew the books together!
Submission Guidelines
Narrative poems (50-line maximum)
Flash fiction (1,000-word maximum)
The poem or tale must have a beginning, middle, and end and reveal something about the character(s). It needn’t be an Earth-shattering secret or personality flaw, but readers should think or feel something about the character(s) by the end. This journal's "namesake" Edgar Allan Poe avowed that a story ought to be readable in its entirety in one sitting. Who are we to argue with Poe? Feel free to challenge our minds with another time period, foreign planet, etc. Kindly don’t challenge our taste buds, though. Gratuitous sex, graphic violence or anything defamatory/hateful, rantingly political, et cetera will not be published.
Carved-in-Puddingstone Format Guidelines:
*Submit a maximum of 5 poems and/or two stories in the body of an e-mail to making2@outlook.com.
*Narrative poems and flash fiction only.
*Left-margin aligned, 12-pt. font. No creative spacing, thank you. It's a pain to cut and paste.
*No work previously published in print will be considered. Work that appeared online before January 2015 may be submitted, but write a note with a link to the journal in which the work was published.
*SUBMIT Artwork as JPEGS ONLY.
**** No simultaneous submissions! ****
*Subject Line: Tell-Tale Inklings Submission. "TTI Submit" is also fine; just try not to irritate the hyperactive junk filter.
*Current payment is nothing but glory, and the writer relinquishes future monetary claims to any version of the publication (for example, an e-book ). Tell-Tale Chapbooks (TTC) is a small, one-woman press; the publisher will be lucky to break even.
Thank you for your interest in the press!
Mignon Ariel King
Publisher & Editor
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Cover image Stephan Anstey c. 2017
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Tell-Tale Inklings #2
Writers in the Autumn 2016 Issue
Ed Ahern
Paula Anderson
Robert Beveridge
Marguerite G. Bouvard
Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois
John Grey
Elizabeth Hanson
Lynda Kirby
Chad Parenteau
Janet Reed
Carla Schwartz
Lynn White
Congratulations to the 6 writers [Bouvard, Grabois, Grey, Kirby, Parenteau, and Reed] whose work was nominated for the 2016 Pushcart Prize anthology. Thank you to all of the writers who made it so tough to choose only 6.
Cover Image: Tom Daley copyright 2016 (photograph)
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Tell-Tale Inklings #1
Writers in the Summer 2015 issue are:
Stephan Anstey Valerie Lawson
Mia Avramut Lynda McClellan
Zachary Bos David P. Miller
CL BLedsoe Gloria Mindock
CD Collins Shannon O'Connor
Susan Deer Cloud Chad Parenteau
Lori Desrosiers Ralph Pennel
Naomi Elster Tim Reed
Timothy Gager Dana R. Rowe
Patricia Gomes Sarah Russell
Elizabeth Hanson Rene Schwiesow
Lucy Holstedt Jan Steckel
Marian Kent Martin Willitts Jr.
Lawrence Kessenich
Mignon Ariel King
Cover Image: "Une Morte Balkanique" Mark Hanser copyright 2015 (shadowbox)
photo by Mignon Ariel King
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