Penumbra Online
Journal Launch

Thank you to all who submitted to our Fall 2021 virtual journal edition,"Love for Others." Seeing all of your lovely pieces was certainly a highlight of the season! All of the pieces to be featured in the journal have been accepted, and the artists have been notified. We warmly welcome contributors to also attend our journal launch, which will be hosted online via Zoom on December 4th, 2-3:00 pm PST. The link for the event can be found by clicking here.

The launch will announce our Series Editors' Pick, feature piece readings, showcase our first Penumbra Press chapbooks, and involve a Q&A session with contributors and staff. We can't wait to see you and celebrate your work!

Penumbra Press chapbook Trailers

Penumbra Press has been hard at work polishing three chapbooks from the authors we selected in the summer. At last, we are excited to share the three trailers to those chapbooks: ON BIRDS / WINGS / ROADS / SILENCE by Dottie Lo Bue, patchwork hearts by Natt Bartell, and Swimming to Syria by Sandy Feinstein. More information on Penumbra Press chapbooks can be found here. Click down below to check out the trailers, and look forward to the chapbooks release coming soon!

Check out our Spotify!

We are proud to announce that Penumbra Online has launched its very first Spotify account! We will upload playlists in line with our published editions, so our summer playlists are out now and our fall playlists will be coming out every two weeks. If you're looking for tunes, we've curated lots playlists that fit into our self-love and love for others themes. Our latest playlist can be found by clicking here or on the icon below. Check them all out by clicking the link!
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"Love for Friends and Family"

Penumbra Online Blog

Penumbra Online now has a blog! Visit our blog page to see how we live life. We have a variety of blog topics including Penumbra Process, Lifestyle, Advice, the State of Stan, What We're Watching, and more. Find out more by clicking the "PenumbraOnline Blog" tab or the icon below.

Featured Blog post
"What We're Watching: Wynonna Earp the greatest fandom you've never heard of"
by autumn andersen

Itching for a new Sci-Fi show to binge? Autumn Andersen writes on Wynonna Earp and why you should get into this quirky, fun show. Read more by clicking the title or the icon down below!

Looking for book recommendations?

Previously, Penumbra ​Online had curated a list of reads for the summer season that encouraged self-love. Now that we are preparing for our fall edition, we've also created a list of books that inspires us to show the many types of love we feel towards others. If you're interested, look through our list by clicking the "Clubs and Book Recommendations" tab. 

call for readings

Penumbra Online is spotlighting previous Penumbra or Penumbra Online authors by giving them the opportunity to read aloud their Penumbra-published poems or excerpts from prose pieces. If accepted, these recordings will be published on Penumbra Online's website and social media pages. For more information, search under the "Call for Content" tab. To see previous readings, check out our readings archive in the "Penumbra Online Media" tab. 

Featured Reading
"The Last Days of Vacation"
by Lisa Rhodes-RYABCHICH 

Check out one of our pieces from the summer 2021 edition, "The Last Days of Summer Vacation." You can read along in Penumbra Online's Summer 2021 edition and read more about Lisa underneath her video!
Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich is an adjunct poetry/screenwriting professor at Westchester Community College. She has two poetry chapbooks “We Are Beautiful Like Snowflakes” & “Opening the Black Ovule Gate” and forthcoming in 2021 is a full-length collection of poems "Breaking Out of the Cocoon" all from http://www.finishinglinepress.com. Another full-length poetry book "Peripeteia" was published in 2020 and a third full-length collection "How You Get to There" was published in 2021 both from CyberWit.net. She has a MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her website is http://www.lisarhodesryabchich poetryblog.wordpress.com