Tell-Tale Chapbooks

07/30/2025

HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY TO OUR LIT. JOURNAL!

Tell-Tale Inklings #7 (2025) has been published!

10/01/2024

09/30/2024

Submissions closed for
Tell-Tale Inklings #7.
Thanks to all submitters!

09/20/2024

May your darling-cutting be swift and painless ✊

09/09/2024

RIP, James Earl Jones. A beautiful voice and spirit.

09/02/2024

ONE MONTH LEFT! READ THE GUIDELINES.

Submissions Open for "Tell-Tale Inklings #7", Autumn, 2024,
a print journal of narratives published by Tell-Tale Chapbooks.
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NO FEE.
NO PAYMENT [although contributors will receive a PDF].

DEADLINE: September 30, 2024.

Narrative poems (50-line maximum)
Short fiction (1,000-word maximum)
B+W interior artwork.

GUIDELINES
1- **** NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS! ****
2- Kindly heed the word limits. –Edgar Allan Poe avowed that a story ought to be readable in its entirety in one sitting. Who are we to argue with the master of the short tale?
3- 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 flaw, but thought-provoking or emotionally evocative.
4- Another time period, foreign planet...would be refreshing, interesting. But kindly don’t challenge our taste buds. Gratuitous s*x, graphic violence – anything defamatory, hateful, rantingly political -- et cetera will not be published. Mess with our heads, not our stomachs!
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FORMAT GUIDELINES
*Submit a maximum of 5 poems and/or 2 stories in the body of an e-mail to [email protected]
*Include a short bio and attach your JPEG photo.
*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 has appeared online may be submitted, but write a note with a link to the journal in which the work was previously published.
*SUBMIT BLACK AND WHITE ARTWORK as JPEGS.
*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 ). TTC is a tiny, independent press. The publisher would be lucky to break even.
-There will be 8-10 contributors, possibly including 1 featured poet. Do not ask to be the feature. The editor will ask for additional poems based on specific submissions.

Thank you for your interest in the press!
Mignon Ariel King
Publisher & Editor
[email protected]

08/26/2024

First round of acceptances for
TTI #7 going out this week.
Submit soon if you want in!

06/22/2024

It was such scary news, but King recuperated from his weak and weary condition to write again and again.... Much love, forever more!

North Lovell, Maine. June, 1999.

Fryeburg resident Bryan Smith strikes famed Maine author Stephen King with a car on a North Lovell roadside, while the writer was walking. "He sustained broken bones in his right leg and hip, broken ribs, a punctured lung and a head injury."

One year later Smith would die under unexplained circumstances in his home at Fryeburg. "The medical examiner’s office says an autopsy found no evidence of trauma but no conclusion was reached on the cause of death."

Image and information courtesy of ABC News.

06/22/2024

33 Wawenock Rd. Raymond, Maine. Undated.

Enjoying a start to summer. These young ladies practice their archery skills at Camp Wawenock on Lake Sebago.

Image courtesy of Camp Wawenock.

06/22/2024

Complain about Writer's Block nevermore!
Check out this site for prompts, etc.

Introduction in poetry: nature of poetry, tools, history, terms (periods, styles and movements, technical means, tropes, measures of verse, verse forms, national poetry, etc.

05/26/2024

Submissions Open for "Tell-Tale Inklings #7", Autumn, 2024,
a print journal of narratives published by Tell-Tale Chapbooks.
​
NO FEE.
NO PAYMENT [although contributors will receive a PDF].
DEADLINE: September 30, 2024.

Narrative poems (50-line maximum)
Short fiction (1,000-word maximum)
B+W interior artwork.
Color artwork considered for the cover.

GUIDELINES
1- **** No simultaneous submissions! ****

2- Kindly heed the word limits. –Edgar Allan Poe avowed that a story ought to be readable in its entirety in one sitting. Who are we to argue?

3- 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 flaw, but thought-provoking or emotionally evocative.

4- Another time period, foreign planet...would be refreshing, interesting. But kindly don’t challenge our taste buds. Gratuitous s*x, graphic violence – anything defamatory, hateful, rantingly political, et cetera will not be published. Mess with our heads, not our stomachs!
​
CARVED-IN-PUDDINGSTONE FORMAT GUIDELINES
*Submit a maximum of 5 poems and/or 2 stories in the body of an e-mail to [email protected]
*Include a short bio and your JPEG photo.
*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 has appeared online may be submitted, but write a note with a link to the journal in which the work was previously published.

*SUBMIT ARTWORK as JPEGS ONLY.

*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 ). TTC is a tiny, independent press. The publisher would be lucky to break even.

-There will be 8-10 contributors, possibly including 1 featured poet. Do not ask to be the feature. The editor will ask for additional poems based on specific submissions.

Thank you for your interest in the press!
Mignon Ariel King
Publisher & Editor
[email protected]

04/01/2024

HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!!!