Events

Pack up your suitcases, we’re going on vacation! Tell us your travel stories, whether across the ocean or in your own city. A woman out in the world is still something revolutionary.

Sing us a song. Cry if you want to. Make it happy or sad, funny or bittersweet. Blow out your candles and, just this once, tell us what you wished for.

Take a moment. Think about your most precious memories, those nostalgic mental Polaroids you carry in your heart for when you need them. I’d wager that a lot of those memories feature laughter.

We're hoping you find a pattern for the perfect poem, story, or essay that you will then share with us.

Spirit: soul, essence. Breath, life. Liveliness, with a shadow of afterlife, of death, of the close unknown.

It’s election season, so this month we want to see stories about the government, its power, and how it can put its thumb on the scale.

In this issue, we want to highlight fiction and poetry inspired by Halloween. Send us your work about monsters, talking pumpkins, becoming best friends with a sleep paralysis demon, your childhood nightmares, or whatever your tell-tale heart desires.

In our next edition we’re looking for creative explorations of the science of Synergy — interactions, collaborations, things that together become more than the sum of their parts.

Minimal departure, brevity, turns of phrase that hold us in pause, we always want Horror submissions for October!

Soil—the, epidermal layer of the body of fertile Mother Earth—is life itself; however, it is also death. We at Penumbra are anxious to gather a body of art and literature, locally sourced and from around the world, that focuses on earthy, dirt-related themes.

This edition heads out in search of home – what it means to us, why it matters and how it shapes our sense of self. 

We explore original work which inspires awareness of the human condition.

How do you know earth? Time stuck in squelching mud; digging your hands into soil; planting seeds or pulling up roots. A landslide. A drought. Gravity, keeping you. What does earth evoke? What does it make possible?

From the geometric shapes of gardens in European castles, to the gardens of the Victorians on the wilder side, gardens could be seen as an expression of individuality and culture.

Give us your best holiday fails (any December holiday, from Hannukah, to Solstice, to NYE, etc.) or your best funny work about noodles that happens to ALSO be holiday-themed in some way.

Write about your own interpretation of the Zodiacs. Push the envelope. Step out of the box and conquer the unknown.