Penumbra Spring 2023
Call Closed

During the spring, Penumbra Online takes a brief hiatus, as Penumbra, our university's print journal, prepares to launch by mid May. Penumbra has been Stanislaus State's literary and art journal since 1989, and in the spring semesters, our university offers a class for those interested in producing the journal. Currently our call for the Spring 2023 edition of Penumbra is closed. Thank you to all who submitted! Acceptance emails have been sent!

Penumbra Press 
​Call for chapbooks
closed

Last fall, we ran our call for chapbook submissions between 9/7 - 11/1. Thank you to all who submitted!

​Currently, the Penumbra Press team is finalizing edits to publish our second edition of chapbooks shortly. You can look forward to those soon!

​Down below you can see our first round of chapbooks created by the Penumbra Press team. If you're interested in submitting your work to us, see our "Call for Penumbra Press" page under the "Calls for Content" tab. Please note that submissions must be in PDF form and emailed to penumbra@csustan.edu.

Penumbra Press chapbooks

Penumbra Press is excited to share the first three chapbooks we have published: ​

ON BIRDS / WINGS / ROADS / SILENCE 
by Dottie Lo Bue

patchwork hearts 
by Natt Bartell 

Swimming to Syria 
by Sandy Feinstein
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To view the chapbooks and their trailers, click here or down below

Penumbra Writing CLub

We at Penumbra are excited to announce the dates for our first ever in-person writing workshops! We have two fiction and two poetry workshops this spring, each one taking place in L222 from 2-3:30 PM. Dates are as follows:

Fiction
March 10th
March 24th

Poetry
April 14th
April 28th

These workshops are student led, and no prior experience is necessary: any and all Stanislaus students are welcome to attend. We hope you'll join us as we build our creative writing community and share our love for the literary arts! If you're interested in attending, sign up using the form below.

Check out our Spotify!

Penumbra Online creates new playlists on Spotify every semester. Check out our latest playlist, inspired by 80s pop, down below!

Featured blog post

We're excited to announce that our student-led blog team is now ready to publish! Check out Tania's post about ​things to do around Stan State. Click below to read the post, and click here to get to know our student bloggers this spring. 

"Totally Booked!"
A penumbra podcast

"Totally Booked! A Penumbra Podcast" is a podcast series directed by the management team of Penumbra that dives into a number of book topics.

Our latest installment of "Totally Booked!" is our fall book club read Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Listen in as we team up with the Language Circle to celebrate Hispanic heritage month and the spooky season!

This spring, the Penumbra team is happy to announce our new book club read: Woman Without Shame, by Sandra Cisneros. We're excited to dive into poetry as well as themes of self-love, romance, and the hardships experienced by Mexican-American women. This book club is in partnership again with Stanislaus State's Language Circle, so if you'd like to read and discuss this book with us, come to Language Circle, which meets every other Monday from 3-4 PM in L222. 

Book Club will meet after Language Circle in L222 from 4-5 PM April 24th. Discussion questions will be emailed two weeks prior.

Episodes are available on Spotify and our podcasts page, under "Penumbra Online Media." Click below for our latest episode, and check for updates on our social media @csustanpenumbra