SNHU Online MFA
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SNHU’s 100% online MFA in Creative Writing. Write your novel, in the genre of your choice, while learning the business of writing and teaching.
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Happy Friday! Here's "Planctology," by Rose Mary Boehm. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Planctology
by Rose Mary Boehm Plankter, a word that’s hardly ever used. You’ll never find just one. Plankter. Any organism living in the water column, says Wikipedia, and incapable of swimming against a current ...
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February 13, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Happy Friday! Here's "Planctology," by Rose Mary Boehm. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Amazing piece from Online MFA student DJ Cooper!
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Amazing piece from Online MFA student DJ Cooper!
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Happy Wednesday! Here's "If Only," by Pulkita Anand. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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If Only
Pulkita Anand We stop deceiving through language With names and meanings With sounds and spellings With dangling sentences and silent letters With words piling on words With the mob of vandalised...
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February 11, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Happy Wednesday! Here's "If Only," by Pulkita Anand. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Happy Monday! Here's "He's Right Behind You," by Kevin B. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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He’s Right Behind You
by Kevin B We’d go out around one. Climbing through bedroom windows, we’d try to land softly on bushes and backyard lawns. Some of us went barefoot. Some hid a spare pair of sneakers under porches or...
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February 9, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Happy Monday! Here's "He's Right Behind You," by Kevin B. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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Happy Friday! Here's "Innocence is tending to dust bunnies," by @snhumfa.bsky.social student Menke Hudzinski-Biewenga. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Innocence is tending to dust bunnies
by Menke Hudzinski-Biewenga Innocence is tending to dust bunnies raising them under the bed; watching them hop refusing to eat your veggies just so you can feed them It is painting a rainbow on the w...
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February 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Happy Friday! Here's "Innocence is tending to dust bunnies," by @snhumfa.bsky.social student Menke Hudzinski-Biewenga. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Congrats to instructor @bethrevis.bsky.social on receiving an Outstanding Educator Award from SNHU! Woot. Well deserved!
February 4, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Congrats to instructor @bethrevis.bsky.social on receiving an Outstanding Educator Award from SNHU! Woot. Well deserved!
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Happy Wednesday! Here's "Ailanthus on Patchin Place," by Claude Chabot. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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Ailanthus on Patchin Place
by Claude Chabot The people know. I have to be careful—they listen, they hear . . . . . . and I’m afraid for the little girl. And Charlie. They keep me here, but I flee often only to return. Th...
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February 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Happy Wednesday! Here's "Ailanthus on Patchin Place," by Claude Chabot. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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Check out this edited transcript of the Q&A portion of last month's Word for Word, Featuring the Winners of the 11th Annual Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest!
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Word for Word Celebrates the 2025 Fall Fiction Contest Winners
On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the Word for Word Reading Series at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) featured the winners of the Penmen Review’s eleventh annual Fall Fiction Contest. This year...
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February 3, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Check out this edited transcript of the Q&A portion of last month's Word for Word, Featuring the Winners of the 11th Annual Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest!
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We're thrilled to announce the panel of authors who will select the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
Nicola Griffith
Mat Johnson
Fonda Lee
Darcie Little Badger
Peter Rock
Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.
Nicola Griffith
Mat Johnson
Fonda Lee
Darcie Little Badger
Peter Rock
Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.
February 2, 2026 at 8:58 PM
We're thrilled to announce the panel of authors who will select the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
Nicola Griffith
Mat Johnson
Fonda Lee
Darcie Little Badger
Peter Rock
Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.
Nicola Griffith
Mat Johnson
Fonda Lee
Darcie Little Badger
Peter Rock
Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.
Shout out to instructor Melinda Clayton, who has a short story in "Dig Your Own Grave," an anthology set in the universe of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG, from @montecookgames.com!
February 2, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Shout out to instructor Melinda Clayton, who has a short story in "Dig Your Own Grave," an anthology set in the universe of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG, from @montecookgames.com!
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Happy Monday! Here's "Shedding," by Rose Mary Boehm. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Shedding
by Rose Mary Boehm I know I have to do some shedding. Can’t go into a long, enfeebling winter with the weight of oceans, moors, beaches, dark woods, and stark horizons. I suppose I ought to shed my li...
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February 2, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Happy Monday! Here's "Shedding," by Rose Mary Boehm. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Happy Thursday! Here's "We fall into bed to make love but write poems instead," by Alex Stolis. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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We fall into bed to make love but write poems instead
by Alex Stolis When I was sixteen, Dad almost sold the bar, I crushed on the buyer’s daughter: nineteen, blond, and way out of my league. I was gone-daddy-gone. She asked if I knew where we could sc...
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January 29, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Happy Thursday! Here's "We fall into bed to make love but write poems instead," by Alex Stolis. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Online MFA alum Kendra Vaughan was our guest on Wireside Chat earlier this month. Watch as she reads from her debut novel, The Plymbury Witch, and shares the secrets of her self-publishing success!
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Online MFA alum Kendra Vaughan was our guest on Wireside Chat earlier this month. Watch as she reads from her debut novel, The Plymbury Witch, and shares the secrets of her self-publishing success!
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Happy Wednesday! Here's "The Joys of Paternity," by D. S. Stewart. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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The Joys of Paternity
by D.S. Stewart As the cancer worms through his body, Simon Weinberg prays the same prayer he’s made hundreds of times, kneeling, arms outstretched, staring upwards into space: “God, if you happen to ...
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January 28, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Happy Wednesday! Here's "The Joys of Paternity," by D. S. Stewart. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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Hot off the presses! The winners of the 11th Annual Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest read their prize-winning stories at this special Word for Word event. Check it out!
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Word for Word, Featuring the Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest Winners, 1/14/26
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January 27, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Hot off the presses! The winners of the 11th Annual Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest read their prize-winning stories at this special Word for Word event. Check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1-P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1-P...
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Happy Monday! Here's "Graveyard," by Walker Watson. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Graveyard
by Walker Watson You are the sun all flowers seek, Their aching stems bent toward your light— While I, unseen, stay small and weak, A shadow fading out of sight. You cradle beauty none can claim, And ...
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January 26, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Happy Monday! Here's "Graveyard," by Walker Watson. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Happy Friday! Here's "Icarus Bells," by Jason Bauer. Enjoy! #litmag #prosepoem
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Icarus Bells
by Jason Bauer The lightbulbs in my kitchen look like little Liberty Bells. It took me 17 years and three hundred something days to see it, but they are. It kinda burns to look at them, but it feels g...
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January 23, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Happy Friday! Here's "Icarus Bells," by Jason Bauer. Enjoy! #litmag #prosepoem
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Today's weather report calls for Media Showers! Happy book birthday to instructor Jason Morgan, writing as J. Lloyd Morgan. a.co/d/8LJqE2B
January 20, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Today's weather report calls for Media Showers! Happy book birthday to instructor Jason Morgan, writing as J. Lloyd Morgan. a.co/d/8LJqE2B
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Happy Tuesday! Here's "Journalism Hard Truths," by Matthew Johnson. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Journalism Hard Truths
by Matthew Johnson Son, I wish I could let you Have time off on your birthday, But you know, we even work on Christmas, So if the Son of God walked Into my office to request time off, I’d even tell ...
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January 20, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Happy Tuesday! Here's "Journalism Hard Truths," by Matthew Johnson. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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OMG! Cannot believe we forget to wish alum Jessica Cozzi a happy book birthday on the occasion of the publication of her debut novel, "We've Hit Turbulence," just out from Delacorte!
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We’ve Hit Turbulence
Available now wherever books are sold! Cover Art: Mallory Heyer When a girl is stuck on a cross-country flight with her ex, things get bumpy — a swoony YA rom com perfect for fans of K.L. Walther!A…
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January 16, 2026 at 3:55 PM
OMG! Cannot believe we forget to wish alum Jessica Cozzi a happy book birthday on the occasion of the publication of her debut novel, "We've Hit Turbulence," just out from Delacorte!
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Hey hey, instructor Mary Sangiovanni is up for a Splatterpunk Award!
We are proud to present… the 2026 Splatterpunk Award nominees: killerconatx.com/awards/
2026 Splatterpunk Awards
We are pleased to announce the 2026 Splatterpunk Award nominees, for works published in 2025. The awards honor superior achievement in the literary sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror fic…
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January 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Hey hey, instructor Mary Sangiovanni is up for a Splatterpunk Award!
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Happy Thursday! Here's "Five Inches of Silver," by Elizabeth Wischler. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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Five Inches of Silver
by Elizabeth Wischler Thomas Ray hadn’t touched the box since it arrived. It lived under his bed, where dust settled without judgment. He didn’t talk about the war, not in church, not over coffee. Not...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Happy Thursday! Here's "Five Inches of Silver," by Elizabeth Wischler. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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Instructor @sidneyw.bsky.social is back with a new novella!
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮! From: Me. On the heels of personal tragedy and career disappointment, a young woman stumbles on brutal violence and eldritch secrets in an old Louisiana mansion.
Available now at your favorite digital store!
A Disturbance of Shadows by Sidney Williams
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January 14, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Instructor @sidneyw.bsky.social is back with a new novella!
Tonight!
This Wednesday, the five winners of the Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest will read their winning stories at a special Word for Word event! Don't miss it!
Register here: events.blackthorn.io/1N1TpJJ7/4a3...
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January 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Tonight!
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Meet the winners of the Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest!
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Meet the Winners of the 2025 Fall Fiction Contest
The 11th annual Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) Fall Fiction Contest brought writers from across the country together for a chance to win a scholarship to SNHU and publication in The Penmen R...
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January 13, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Meet the winners of the Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest!
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