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"Tom Snarsky and Jo Ianni are credited with popularizing the form of a minimal sonnet, or “minison”, which is a very small poetic form with only one rule: make a poem with only fourteen letters total. Now the format is blossoming into new, related forms."

"Tom Snarsky and Jo Ianni are credited with popularizing the form of a minimal sonnet, or “minison”, which is a very small poetic form with only one rule: make a poem with only fourteen letters total. Now the format is blossoming into new, related forms."

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Acceptance Rate

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  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

6 genres

Fiction

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 1

OR three flash pieces up to 1,000 words each. For the minison zine - 14 Word or 14 Sentence Fiction (up to three).

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Nonfiction

Max words: 2500

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

Art

Max pieces: 5

Photography

Max pieces: 5

Fiction

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 1

OR three flash pieces up to 1,000 words each. For the minison zine - 14 Word or 14 Sentence Fiction (up to three).

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Nonfiction

Max words: 2500

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

Art

Max pieces: 5

Photography

Max pieces: 5

Statistics

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Track submission

12

Total submissions tracked

71 days

Average response time

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Average acceptance rate

12 days

Fastest response time

129 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

We use Google Forms.

Cover letters

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

in a single .DOC, or .DOCX format

Rights for published work

Copyright for your work remains with you. We do ask however, that contributors credit The Minison Project if their work is republished after first appearing in our issues, and we reserve the right to republish your work in future collections.

Additional info

For the minison zine – single, plural, visual, conceptual, long-form (eg. 14 lines, 14 letters per line), mystical, natural, emoji, translations, or anything at all that encapsulates the spirit of a minimal sonnet!

About the Magazine

Founded in 2020 | United States

When Tom and Jo collaborated on a micro-chapbook using this 14-letter format, they decided to share their work, and it invited other inventive poets to create beautiful art in this wonderfully small space (cf. Michael O’Brien’s collection of minisons). That’s when the two decided that it was time to start a passion project. It started out as a simple call for minimal sonnets, which led to an informal zine release, and then another, and now, although not run by Tom and Jo, The Minison Project is alive and ready to go! We can already see the format blossoming into new, related forms, such as the minison coronet mentioned in our Issue #0, and the 14 letter/14 line poem that our EIC is so very fond of.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Melissa Ashley Hernandez

Editor-in-Chief