Check out my poem "The Call" along with many other talented #artists & #writers in "The Best of Penumbric" www.amazon.com/Best-Penumbr... Thanks to Jeff @penumbricmag.bsky.social for a beautiful issue jam packed with talent! #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #writersky #speculative

Glob the organizer pulled themselves together—literally. -from "Arean Afterlife" by Mary Jo Rabe (@maryjorabe.bsky.social), in #Penumbric's Oct issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstory #scifi #mars

Art from #Penumbric for your Thursday ... "psychonaut" by Garth Upshaw, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #art #artist #horror #HorrorArt

When I look between my arms I see you, Andromeda -from "Collision Course" by Lydia O’Donnell, in October's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... (To be sure you see the right formatting, view the pdf!) #poem #poetry #poet #scifi #scifipoetry

here, there are toxins -from "Let the net grow far and deep" by Marisca Pichette, in October's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poetry #poem #poet #horror #environment

I love this magazine! @penumbricmag.bsky.social And I love having poems in it. You can find the whole TOC here www.penumbric.com/currentissue... or skip directly to my poem "Look in My Eyes" here www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poetry #speculativepoetry #poem

Wisps. The redshirts of the dream hacking world. -from "Feynman Diagrams" by Joshua Ginsberg (@authorjoshginsberg.bsky.social), in #Penumbric's October issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstories #scifi

“But if you fill up, you won’t have room for pie.” -from "Speed Trap" by Kelly Bowen (@kellybowenarts.bsky.social), in #Penumbric's archived August issue at www.penumbric.com/archives/Aug... (pdf www.penumbric.com/archives/Aug... (And yes, our archives are free to view!) #horror #shortstories

Blurbs continue to come in for SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL so I figured I’d share them one at a time in no particular order. Today’s selection comes from @paulcornell.bsky.social because the final line just made me laugh. 😀 Too kind, Paul.

If you’re interested in getting your hands on a copy of my chapbook, the best way to do that is to become a paying patron over on my Patreon by November 1st. www.Patreon.com/poetrycrow

Another fresh poem out in the world for your delectation.

Check out my immersive mushroom poem, "Let the net grow far and deep" 🍄

"Their pigment-sticky kisses invent more colors than the human eye can see, than there ever were in the sterile-white halls of heaven." Always delighted by a new Avra Margariti poem, in the latest @penumbricmag.bsky.social 🕯️ www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

Thank you to all the contributors in October's #Penumbric! Carl Scharwath, @authorjoshuaginsberg.bsky.social, Marisca Pichette, Lydia O’Donnell, Garth Upshaw, @maryjorabe.bsky.social, @devanbarlow.bsky.social ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

Includes my story "Kraken Memories" 🐙✨ www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

Yours truly in this issue with my tale The Sun Shines Down On England alongside a bunch of good eggs.

'Alice Lives Here Forevermore': new story from me in the current issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social Come meet poor wee Alice :)

Second, my fairy tale-esque fantasy short story, "The Backwards Princess of Unusual Parentage" (originally published at @lunastation.bsky.social ) will be reprinted at @penumbricmag.bsky.social in the future! And can I just say, announcing this while reading Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher... ;D

The October issue is up! You can find it at the usual place (www.penumbric.com/currentissue...), and of course a pdf version at www.penumbric.com/currentissue.... #reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine

Art from August's #Penumbric: "Raveled Lovers" by Ashley Abigail Gruezo Resurreccion, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #art #artwork #fantasy #myth

Ryan was no longer backed up on the cloud. -from "Traffic Patterns" by Brian D. Hinson, in #Penumbric's Aug issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #scifi #shortstory

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Here's my re-imagining of Chang'e, published in the April 2025 issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social #poetry #JeniverseWritings #mythology www.penumbric.com/archives/Apr...

“I stop people finding out things that would disturb the balance of their minds.” -from "Censors of Titan" by Mike Morgan (@culttvmike.bsky.social), in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #scifi #shortstories

Sunday #art: "The Arrival" by Christina Sng (@christinasng.bsky.social), in #Penumbric's August issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #artist #artwork #scifi #horror

His voice smokes from the burns of his last life. -from "The Crow Who Owns the Stop Sign" by MC Childs, in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poem #poetry #scifi #fantasy #myth

Saturday #art from August's #Penumbric: "Wisp Warbler" by Camellia Paul, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #artwork #artist #fantasy #myth

Javonte: a warning? we can talk if you tell me who this is God: It’s God. -from "The God Bot" by Tamika Thompson (@tamikathompson.bsky.social), in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #scifi #shortstory

A little #art from August's #Penumbric: "Bifurcation" by Carl Scharwath, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #artwork #scifi #scifiart #myth

The words are colorless knobbly jots we fire at one another from opposite ends of creation. -from "A tour of our superconducting word collider" by Richard Magahiz, in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... (pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...) #poem #poetry #scifi #fantasy

Art in August's #Penumbric: "Killjoys Inc." by Ritiksha Sharma, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #art #artwork #scifi #scifiart

Wearing an exoskeleton was like being spooned by a squid. -from "Vagabond" by EJ Kavounas, in #Penumbric's August issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #scifi #shortstories

i toppled planets i stacked three feet high -from "Astronaut Ice Cream" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (@spires.bsky.social), in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poem #poetry #poet #scifi

When Pius was assigned to Murk, he assumed he would be translating the Bible into the language of genius octopuses. -from "A Word That Means Everything" by @andydibble.bsky.social, in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... (pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...) #scifi #shortstory

Thank you @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social for the amazing conversation. My latest poetry collection is out now from Hippocampus Press. I had a blast talking about Dante and epic poetry with you!

I realize we've totally been AWOL from social media lately. Here's an update: Best of #Penumbric, vol viii, has finally been proofed and is now up on Amazon at www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR9HFPH8. (Yay!!!) Author's copies will go out in the next couple of weeks as we try to catch up.

We've reached our submissions limit for written works for this subs period! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted work! 🥰 We'll reopen for fiction and poetry subs on 15 December. (Art and music subs are always open!) #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

I had a story come out last month with @penumbricmag.bsky.social! Titled "What Makes a Demon", it follows a woman as she tries, with extreme and perhaps invasive measures, to protect her sister from the patriarchy. Check it out! www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

Just ordered another proof copy of "Best of #Penumbric, vol viii" from Amazon. Hopefully I get it this time!!

I've spoken to Amazon about the Best of #Penumbric ... any proof or authors' copies printed in the US will be delayed (due to delays at "the manufacturing facility"). No timeline to fix this. (But retail copies won't be delayed ... printed elsewhere?) Still sorting what to do.

Looks like Amazon can't figure out how to print a proof copy of Best of #Penumbric. I've had to cancel the order. My choices are to just look at the pdf proof and have it go live anyway, or continue to delay our annual anthology. This is not good business, Amazon.

Lotería: Stories is out tomorrow! I’m happy to see this back in all bookstores tomorrow. What a journey this book has been on! Incredible & magical is an understatement. Thank you ❤️💀🌼 open.substack.com/pub/cynthiap... Preorder: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/cynth...

Now Amazon says my proofing copy of the Best of #Penumbric is delayed until Wednesday "due to a supply chain issue." What, they're out of ink? It's been rescheduled twice already. And I ordered it a week ago. Grrr. 🙄

Amazon just told me that my proof copy of Best of #Penumbric has been delayed until the weekend, so we'll probably not get the book online until early September 🙃

Just ordered the proof copy of the "Best of Penumbric vol viii"! Hopefully that'll be here before the end of the week and, assuming I haven't made any glaring mistakes, it might be available on Amazon by the end of the month. (Preview of ToC below) 😁 #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

Glad to announce that my #scifi short story, previously awarded a Silver Honorable Mention from Writers of the Future, will be published in an upcoming issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social. Future updates to come!

... And I remember when I (that is, proofreader "I") was only required to be outraged by "alright" and the conflation of "that" and "which" lol www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

We've reached 200 subs for this "month" of subs (through 14 Aug) ... but ... we're so close to the 15th that I'm just reopening submissions through 15 September! We're thus currently at 0 of 200 remaining written submissions for this submissions window. www.penumbric.com/subs.html

My Writers of the Future winning story "A Word That Means Everything" is out in @penumbricmag.bsky.social. New achievement for me because it's the first time my work has been first in a ToC!

My shortie "Traffic Patterns" is in here. 😃

My poem, "Astronaut Ice Cream," appears in this issue of Penumbric! @penumbricmag.bsky.social Thanks to the editor Jeff Georgeson and crew! The poem is about dehydrated ice cream and the devastating starkness of space. The poem was first printed in Polu Texni. Check it out!