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tiny wren lit focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (2-3 times per year). Readers can download each issue in a zine format. Home of the tiny zine. SUBS CLOSED.

Columbus, Ohio
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@tinywrenlit
tiny wren lit
1 year
We like tiny poems. If you write tiny poems, put together a tiny manuscript with some tiny poems and send it our way.
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tiny wren lit
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Submissions open throughout the month of June for Issue 7: Memento Mori.
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@tinywrenlit
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tiny wren lit wants to publish your tiny poems
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tiny wren lit
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Because you asked so nicely, we're extending submissions for tiny wren's 2nd print anthology another week. Let's have some more poems on the concept of memory. Cheers.
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@tinywrenlit
tiny wren lit
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Submissions for Issue 7: Memento Mori open on June 1st!
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tiny wren lit
2 years
Keep sending along your tiny "Self-Portrait As" poems. How tiny? Here's info from our FAQ: Poems fifteen (15) lines in length or under (including stanza breaks). Five (5) to ten (10) lines are our sweet spot. Each line should have no more than 25 characters + spaces. ๐Ÿชบ
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tiny wren lit
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August 15: Final call for Issue 5 submissions + new call for our 2nd anthology on the concept of memory.
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tiny wren lit
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Submit to tiny wren's 2nd print anthology, "The Half-Life of Echoes: Poems about the Power and Fragility of Memories":
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tiny wren lit
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Keep submitting your poems for Issue 5: Birdsong. (Only if you believe birds are REAL ๐Ÿ˜‰)
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tiny wren lit
1 year
Get your tiny chapbook submitted. Last day is July 15, the same day that subs open for Issue 5: Birdsong!
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1 year
Send us your tiny poems that offer a unique interpretation of the theme.
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tiny wren lit
2 years
We are grateful for your poems. Accepting manuscripts for tiny/microchaps through the end of March 15.
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tiny wren lit
1 year
Hello, creatives! We are open for submissions thru March. Issue 4 has no theme, so poet's choice.
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A tiny peek
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1 year
Who needs some summer plans? #SummerSubs
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tiny wren lit
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Wrensters and wren fans, did you know that you can print out each issue in zine form?
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1 year
Congratulations to the three winners of tiny wren's 2nd call for tiny chapbooks. Our thanks to everyone who submitted.
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We received 84 manuscripts. One lucky poet had their chap accepted by another press. Congrats! Our first task involved identifying our top 25. Not easy!
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tiny wren lit turned 2 this week. ๐Ÿชถ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ๐Ÿฐ
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tiny wren lit
3 years
Submissions close Dec. 15, so send us your tiny winter poems: snow, sleet, solstice, cold, hibernation
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tiny wren lit
9 months
Anyone feeling blue or singing the blues? Subs open Dec. 15.
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tiny wren lit
1 year
Take a look at past issues (online) to get a sense of what we like in a tiny poem. Contributor Jennifer Brown (Issue 4; All Poems Are Ghosts Anthology) has a forthcoming tiny chap (whisper song) coming out soon with tiny wren lit.
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tiny wren lit
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โ€œMay my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of livingโ€ โ€“ e. e. cummings
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tiny wren lit
1 year
Hey, tiny wrensters, here's another place that likes tiny poems!
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PostcardLit
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While we're not quite ready for submissions, you should begin getting those lil poems ready! We have some very specific guidelines when it comes to length.
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tiny wren lit
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Submit.
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Chill Subs
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๐Ÿ‘‹Hiya! A bit shorter today as is par for the course this time otm. Nonetheless don't miss these, lots of great themed calls this week. Find everybodys submission details & more places to sub: #writingcommunity
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A glimpse of the title page for tiny wren's first print anthology. #GhostlyPoems
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Remember to submit to tiny wren's 2nd print anthology! We want your meditations on memory, imaginative, philosophical:
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for the record, tiny wren loves tiny poems and tiny tweets under 280 characters
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tiny wren lit
3 years
We are now open for tiny manuscript submissions!
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tiny wren lit
5 months
Cover reveal for Vanishing, a micro-chap with exquisite poems by @danagraef . Cover art by @Lewis_MichaelH . Coming soon for National Poetry Month!
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tiny wren lit
2 years
Final Call: We'll be closing subs for Issue 3 at the end of Nov. 15. Stay tune for info about submitting to our upcoming print anthology with guest editor and poet @eboninthehedges !
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tiny wren lit
2 years
"Self-Portrait As" Issue Submission tips Title: Self-Portrait As [fill in the blank] Size: Think tiny. Five (5) to ten (10) lines are our sweet spot
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tiny wren lit
3 years
Submissions open for tiny, wintery poems. Think cold, icicles, frost, blizzards, isolation, dormancy in no more than 15 lines.
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tiny wren lit
1 year
Here's to our final 10. Fellow editors + presses take note!
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tiny wren lit
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Our Blue issue has a record number of poets named Susan. Love to the poetic Susans of the world.
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@tinywrenlit
tiny wren lit
1 year
Salutations! Issue 4 is now live! Thanks to all of our tiny wren poets. Happy reading!
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tiny wren lit
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Congratulations to our Pushcart Prize nominees! Good luck, wrensters!
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tiny wren lit
2 years
Cover reveal for "under fire under water," a microchap by @vicnogay
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tiny wren lit
5 months
Issue 6: Blue is now live, with printable zines soon to follow.
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tiny wren lit
2 years
Submission window for our "all poems are ghosts" print anthology closes at the end of 12/31. @eboninthehedges and @dana_a_knott will then have some difficult decisions to make.
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4 months
"Going home" by Ashley Varela, Issue 6: Blue
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Last day to submit to our Blue issue! Send us some tiny poems that interpret the theme in a unique or surprising way.
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2 months
Pride weekend in Columbus, Ohio! Happy Pride to all you wrensters, today and every day!
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Cover reveal for tiny wren's 2nd print anthology! Coming soon.
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2 years
I'm still sending out decisions, slowly. I always like to add a personal message.
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tiny wren lit
3 years
Issue 1 is now live! Ring in the New Year with some winter poems!
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tiny wren lit
9 months
Enjoy the opening poem of tiny wren's anthology The Half-Life of Echoes, available in the tiny wren shop.
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We are excited to share that tiny wren will publish manuscripts by @vicnogay (June) and @PaxWrites (July). Thanks to everyone who submitted a tiny chap.
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Finishing touches on tiny, printable zines for issue 4.
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tiny wren lit
11 months
Let's hear some barbaric yawps for our Best of the Net nominees! #BOTN
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@tinywrenlit
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Soft launch of Issue 5 Birdsong tonight as I make final tweaks. My thanks to the amazing tiny wrensters who blessed us with so much beauty.
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tiny wren lit
2 years
It's alive!
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New tiny wren stickers designed by @bearsbeetspoet
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tiny wren lit
3 years
Submissions to our winter issue close tonight, 12/15, at 11:59pm ET. โ„๏ธโ˜ƒ๏ธ๐ŸŒจ๏ธโ›ท๏ธ
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tiny wren lit
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Okay, wrensters, here's another place to send your amazing tiny poems!
@rinkydinkpress
Rinky Dink Press
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We are currently open for submissions until August 15th Today's sample from the latest series comes from our Amy Haddad collection. Complete guidelines at #WritingCommunity #zines #poetrytwitter
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@tinywrenlit
tiny wren lit
2 years
Because y'all have been so good, tiny wren has made a donation in your name to the Human Fund. And, just in time for Festivus, Issue 3: Self-Portrait As is live!
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And away we go! Now open for submissions to our "all poems are ghosts" print anthology!
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Happy New Year 2023 from tiny wren. Filled with gratitude for our poets, readers, + creatives.
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tiny wren lit
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Pushcart nominations coming soon. How do I choose only 6 from so many amazing poems? Do you have a favorite poem published by tiny wren?
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tiny wren lit
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We will be announcing the accepted tiny manuscripts and sending decisions on Friday, August 11. Stay tuned! #tinywrenpublishing #tinypoems #tinychaps
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Our thanks to all who submitted and our congratulations to tiny wren's "All Poems Are Ghosts" poets. #allpoemsareghosts #tinywrenlit #tinypoems @eboninthehedges @dana_a_knott
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Have you ever seen a ghost between the lines of a poem? #allpoemsareghosts #tinypoems #printanthology
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tiny wren lit
8 months
Thinking about submitting to Issue 6: Blue? Check out Victoria Punch's blue verses from Issue 3.
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tiny wren lit
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We continue to go through your submissions to "All Poems Are Ghosts." Notifications will go out before January's end.
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You can now find tiny wren lit on Instagram. Hooray for us.
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Cover art for our "All Poems Are Ghosts" anthology, "Spook" by amazing artist @Melodiesstacey
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For your Friday: a tiny poem by @whismicalraven
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Attention, wrensters! Submissions are open. Mr. tiny wren @kip_knott and I @dana_a_knott are both part of series 11.
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Rinky Dink Press
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Reminder that we are now open for submissions through this month (July) ***and our current series 11 is available at our square store:
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@tinywrenlit
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Subs open for tiny chapbook manuscripts. Think tiny, imagistic, cohesive poems. Visit our "Submit" page for details:
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@tinywrenlit
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Hello, wrensters! Our print anthology is headed off to press and our next issue will be out this week. Here's a sneak peek!
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tiny wren lit
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Hello, wrensters, @eastridgereview was kind enough to publish some of my poems, including a couple of tiny poems. Check them out!
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East Ridge Review
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Our featured #writer this month is, U.S. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ #poet @dana_a_knott who has recent publications in @DustmagPoetry , @EunoiaReview , & @MusingPublish . She works as a library director in Ohio & is editor of @tinywrenlit , which publishes micro-poetry. The feature:
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I looked for you in your poems but saw only myself. Putting together the 3rd issue got me like...
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Soon. Under Fire Under Water by @vicnogay .
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Friday night feels
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We are so excited to share that Kortney Garrison's "Every Broken Year: The Persephone Cycle" is now available in the tiny wren shop. Such a powerful, poetic exploration of Persephone and Demeter!
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@tinywrenlit
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An abundance of lovely poems! The first of our three upcoming chapbooks, coming soon. Cover reveal for Every Broken Year: The Persephone Cycle!
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In the works: Dec. opening subs for print anthology. In the now: subs open for "Self-Portrait As." In the shop: "Violet Flame" by @MarkDanowsky , "the war" by @PaxWrites , & "Distress Signals" by @kip_knott . Sold Out: "under fire under water" by @vicnogay .
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They're here. "All Poems Are Ghosts" anthology now in the tiny wren shop. Prepare for frisson.
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tiny wren lit
3 years
Weekends are for putting together tiny poems for a tiny manuscript to submit to tiny wren lit.
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1 year
"in air" was our 1st tiny chap, handmade and embellished. ๐Ÿฅฐ
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c. cimmone
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A huge shout out to the crew over at @tinywrenlit for surprising me with an updated limited edition tiny chap of my Pushcart nominated poem, IN AIR, which I wrote on an airplane, hoping to see my dead lover living forever in the clouds. ๐Ÿ–ค DM for your signed copy.
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Perfecting Issue 6: Blue for your reading pleasure.
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2 years
As we finalize issue 2 for publication, tiny wren lit is grateful for all of our poets, readers, and fellow human beings. ๐ŸŒŽ
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"Epiphany" from Elizabeth Anne Schwartz's micro-chap _Nine Stages of Coming Out_.
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I opened the box and . . .
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So grateful to share your poem. Keep writing!
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Mona Angรฉline
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So grateful for @tinywrenlit ! I never thought I'd create a #poem , but a stressful holiday period came about. My first ever - probably not much to the world but the world to me! ๐Ÿฅน Can't wait to read all of Issue 6! #amwriting #poetry #WritingCommunity #writerslife #writechat
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Grab a copy or 2 of our latest micro-chapbook "Vanishing" by @danagraef with cover art by @Lewis_MichaelH .
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Spend some time with other people's ghosts. Buy a copy of tiny wren's 1st anthology ALL Poems Are Ghost.
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Hello, fellow travelers! We have started sending out decisions for our All Poems Are Ghosts anthology.
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Our 2nd print anthology, The Half-Life of Echoes, is now available from the tiny wren shop! Thank you to all of our poets!
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Don't forget that you can print out and make zines with poems from each issue. #StockingStuffers #poetry
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Well, hello there. All decisions sent. Work on the Memento Mori issue begins. ๐Ÿ’€โณ๐ŸŒน
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Favorite line(s) of poetry? I'll start: I loafe and invite my soul,/I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"
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For those of you taking in the winter cold, a poem by @KelliLage .
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