Call for Penumbra Press
Submissions Closed
Since 1989, Penumbra has published the artistic and literary talents of students and creatives regionally, nationally, and internationally and has strived to be a champion for writers of all ages and backgrounds. As a publication, Penumbra is unique; its student-led staff personally solicits, selects, and edits its content and design. This journal provides its staff with the unique opportunity to gain firsthand experience putting together both an online and print publication featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, and art pieces. Penumbra is excited to share another opportunity: Penumbra Press. Through Penumbra Press, we offer poets the chance to have their poems compiled as a virtual chapbook.
For those interested in this opportunity, the staff at Penumbra Press wants to examine a sampling of your work. We ask that submissions consist of 3 poems minimum and a combined page total of 5 pages maximum. These submissions will represent a larger collection of poetry that, if accepted, will be published as a chapbook. We are especially interested in emerging writers of any age or background. We want to encourage anyone who has not previously had a poetry collection published to submit to Penumbra Press. We ask that the poems featured in your chapbook be original, unpublished poems. We also ask that your poems be constructed around a unifying theme or concept, to be specified in your chapbook proposal.
As a reminder, Penumbra, Penumbra Online, and Penumbra Press are committed to curating anti-racist and inclusive content for our readers. We especially welcome work by BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and all communities marginalized by systems of hate and oppression to submit to our publications. We want to highlight and celebrate your work!
Submitted proposals must be in PDF form to be considered (include a 200-300 word synopsis of the direction or vision of the poetry collection as a whole, not to be included in the total page count). We encourage anyone interested in submitting to take a look at our general submission guidelines on our website. To be considered for publication, potential authors must submit their PDF, including their poetry and synopsis, to the Penumbra email penumbra@csustan.edu. Penumbra Press will be considering the first 100 submissions received. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Andrea Wagner at awagner4@csustan.edu or Jarred White at jarredwhite93@gmail.com.
Stanislaus State proudly digitizes current and past issues of Penumbra at https://www.csustan.edu/penumbra for public viewing. Potential reviewers are encouraged to browse the journal’s past and present offerings and note the journal’s diverse range of subject matter and contributors.
Below are our submission guidelines. Please examine and adhere to them before submitting your work.
Submission Guidelines:
For those interested in this opportunity, the staff at Penumbra Press wants to examine a sampling of your work. We ask that submissions consist of 3 poems minimum and a combined page total of 5 pages maximum. These submissions will represent a larger collection of poetry that, if accepted, will be published as a chapbook. We are especially interested in emerging writers of any age or background. We want to encourage anyone who has not previously had a poetry collection published to submit to Penumbra Press. We ask that the poems featured in your chapbook be original, unpublished poems. We also ask that your poems be constructed around a unifying theme or concept, to be specified in your chapbook proposal.
As a reminder, Penumbra, Penumbra Online, and Penumbra Press are committed to curating anti-racist and inclusive content for our readers. We especially welcome work by BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and all communities marginalized by systems of hate and oppression to submit to our publications. We want to highlight and celebrate your work!
Submitted proposals must be in PDF form to be considered (include a 200-300 word synopsis of the direction or vision of the poetry collection as a whole, not to be included in the total page count). We encourage anyone interested in submitting to take a look at our general submission guidelines on our website. To be considered for publication, potential authors must submit their PDF, including their poetry and synopsis, to the Penumbra email penumbra@csustan.edu. Penumbra Press will be considering the first 100 submissions received. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Andrea Wagner at awagner4@csustan.edu or Jarred White at jarredwhite93@gmail.com.
Stanislaus State proudly digitizes current and past issues of Penumbra at https://www.csustan.edu/penumbra for public viewing. Potential reviewers are encouraged to browse the journal’s past and present offerings and note the journal’s diverse range of subject matter and contributors.
Below are our submission guidelines. Please examine and adhere to them before submitting your work.
Submission Guidelines:
- Submissions should only be in PDF form
- All submissions should be emailed to penumbra@csustan.edu with "Chapbook" in the subject line.
- Each person can only submit one chapbook submission at time.
- We require specific content warnings in the actual submission as well as in the published work to protect our staff as well as our readers. If selected, this warning will be included in the final print (this is necessary in our other publications as well). Warnings must accurately reflect the content in submitted work (i.e. drug use, domestic violence, etc.)
- Once accepted, submitters cannot withdraw their pieces. All submissions are evaluated AFTER the submission period has closed. If your piece is accepted in another publication after we have accepted your piece, the secondary publication must attribute Penumbra as the original publisher.
- All submitted works must be original and unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable.
- No images depicting bodily harm, including harm of animals; it can result in a ban from both Penumbra and Penumbraonline.org
- No racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynist, islamophobic, ableist, content or language (etc.) Nothing that furthers hate or oppressive rhetoric and practices; submitting work containing these topics can result in a ban from Penumbra, Penumbra Online, Penumbra Press, and any other Penumbra programming.
