Check out the Word for Word Graduate Spotlight, honoring five recent graduates of SNHU's Creative Writing programs, including Samantha Barrow and Brandi Shaffer from the Online MFA! youtu.be/9_EyyCS5d3Q?...

Happy Monday! Here's "Many Years from Now," by Alexander Hurla. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/many-years-f...

Every year, Word for Word's Graduate Spotlight event honors recent grads of SNHU's online BA, MA, and MFA creative writing programs! And every year, the Penmen Review posts the edited transcript. Enjoy! penmenreview.com/spotlight/wo...

Happy Wednesday! Here's "Fifty/Fifty," by Alexander Hurla. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/fifty-fifty/

Happy Tuesday! Here's "Stone," by Alexander Hurla. Enjoy! penmenreview.com/stone/ #litmag #poetry

Happy Friday! Here's our final look back at the poems and stories we were privileged to present last year, from March through June of 2026. Yes, 2026. Our publication year does not track with the calendar year. Enjoy! #litmag penmenreview.com/a-year-in-re...

Hey hey! It's Part II of our interview with the great @chucktingle.bsky.social! Just in time for the release of his new novel, Fabulous Bodies, on July 7. Check it out! #litmag #interview #tingleverse penmenreview.com/spotlight/wo...

Happy Wednesday! Continuing our look back at the poems and stories we presented last year, here's a list of work published between 12/25 and 3/26, including Fall Fiction Contest winners. Yes, our publication year does not track with the calendar year. Enjoy! #litmag penmenreview.com/a-year-in-re...

‪Happy Tuesday ! Continuing our look back at the poems and stories we had the good fortune to present last year, here's a list of the work published in our pages between September and the end of November, 2025. Enjoy! #litmag penmenreview.com/a-year-in-re...

Happy Monday! Continuing our look back at the poems and stories we had the good fortune to present last year, here's a list of the work published in our pages between May and August of 2025. Check it out! #litmag penmenreview.com/a-year-in-re...

Happy Thursday! The Penmen Review has had one heck of year, and we thought you might enjoy sharing some of the highlights with us! #litmag penmenreview.com/a-year-in-re...

Back in May, Word for Word hosted the World's Greatest Author, @chucktingle.bsky.social! We are honored to post this lightly edited transcript of that event in two parts. Here's part one. Enjoy! #litmag #interview #tingleverse penmenreview.com/spotlight/wo...

Happy Monday! Here's "The Buzzards," by Ryland Louvierre. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory penmenreview.com/the-buzzards/

Happy Friday! Here's "Behavior of Care," by Rebecca Ceurvels. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory penmenreview.com/behavior-of-...

Happy Thursday! Here's "The Weight of Water," by Alexis Hula. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory penmenreview.com/the-weight-o...

Happy Wednesday! Here's "The Man Lied," by Jim Kelly. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory penmenreview.com/the-man-lied/

Happy Tuesday! Here's "White Roses," by Phibby Venable. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/white-roses/

Proud to share the recording of last month's Word for Word, featuring our special guest, the award-winning, galaxy-spanning @chucktingle.bsky.social! This was a blast--enjoy! youtu.be/d166ds2wrq0?...

Happy Monday! Here's "The Man by the River," by Kevin Snell. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory penmenreview.com/the-man-by-t...

Just in time for #stokercon, here's the May Wireside Chat, featuring Online MFA instructor @marysangiovanni.bsky.social! youtu.be/j7FI94z5zkE

Happy Friday! Here's "May 2012," by Megan Hodges. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/may-2012/

Happy Thursday! Here's "The Old Woman in the Park," by Caitlin O’Halloran. Enjoy! #litmag #flashfiction #shortstory penmenreview.com/the-old-woma...

Happy Wednesday! Here's "Where the Light Breaks In," by Hayley Russell. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/where-the-li...

Happy Tuesday! Here's "Every Politician Eats Gunpowder for Breakfast," by Ophelia Knight. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/every-politi...

Happy Thursday! Here's "The Prognosis," by Samuel Goldsmith. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/the-prognosis/

Happy Wednesday! Here's "The Leaving Tree," by Hayley Russell. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/the-leaving-...

Happy Tuesday! Here's "On Seeing the Homeless in Your City," by Ophelia Knight. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/on-seeing-th...

Happy Friday! Here's "Real Estate," by Samuel Goldsmith. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/real-estate/

Happy Thursday! Here's "So," by Ivan de Monbrison. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry #prosepoem penmenreview.com/so/

Happy Wednesday! Here's "Hollow Places," by Hayley Russell. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/hollow-places/

Happy Friday! Here's "Four Lokos and Forty Ounces," by Ophelia Knight. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/four-lokos-a...

Happy Wednesday! Here's "The Woman I Met on Lower Broadway," by Michael Cooney. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/the-woman-i-...

Happy Tuesday! Here's "Proof of Having Lived," by Samuel Goldsmith. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/proof-of-hav...

Happy Monday! Here's "Muriel's Cicadas," by Abigail Cain. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory penmenreview.com/muriels-cica...

Happy Friday! Here's "No Place Like Home," by Natalia Ortiz Lopez. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory penmenreview.com/no-place-lik...

Happy Thursday! Here's the edited transcript of last month's Word for Word event featuring @courtneymilan.com. Enjoy! #litmag #interview #author #romance penmenreview.com/spotlight/wo...

Happy Wednesday! Here's "Memoirical Musings on Graduate School (and yes, I made that word up)," by Amy Parker. Enjoy! #litmag #personalessay penmenreview.com/memoirical-m...

Happy Tuesday! Here's "Crows Over Maple Street," by Emily Brochu. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory penmenreview.com/crows-over-m...

Proud to share this Wireside Chat recording from last month featuring alum Savannah Stephens reading from and discussing her terrific debut novel, Witch Queen Rising. youtu.be/H89VBW_L6-w?...

Happy Monday! Here's "Embers," by Ivan de Monbrison. Enjoy! #litmag #prose-poem #poetry penmenreview.com/embers/

Happy Friday! Here's "Inheritance," by Hayley Russell. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/inheritance/

Coming to SNHU next week for a special Word for Word, the world's greatest author, @chucktingle.bsky.social! I hope you will join us! Register and attend for a chance to win a free copy of Chuck's Locus Award-winning novel, Bury Your Gays! Register here: events.blackthorn.io/1N1TpJJ7/5a3...

A lot of writing wisdom in this video from Ms. Milan!

Happy Wednesday! Here's "Facial Features," by Richard Downing. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory penmenreview.com/facial-featu...

Happy Tuesday! Here's "Cloak and Poem," by Cainhurst. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory penmenreview.com/cloak-and-po...

Happy Monday! Here's "Burst Fracture: Steel Standing," by Valerie Logel. Enjoy! #litmag #personalessay penmenreview.com/burst-fractu...

Happy Friday! Here's "After the Silence," by Anna Elizabeth. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/after-the-si...

Happy Wednesday! Here's "Beep," by @raymondbrunell.bsky.social. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory penmenreview.com/beep/

Happy Monday! Here's "Autumn Boy," by Carmella T. Penny. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/autumn-boy/

Happy Friday! Here's "Thirteen 13-Syllable American Sentences for Allen Ginsberg," by Christopher Stolle. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry penmenreview.com/thirteen-13-...