These pieces were originally published between May 22nd 2025 and August 21st 2025.
Recent Writing
A Year in Review
We’ve had another spectacular year at Penmen Review. Over the past year, we’ve published 137 pieces from our general submissions folder and have celebrated our annual Fall Fiction Contest with five exceptional writers whose work conveyed strong originality and craft. We’ve also published several Spotlights from our Word for Word…
The Buzzards
by Ryland Louvierre It was six o’clock on an unseasonably warm Saturday evening in February. The birds had gone to their nests, replaced by bats that swooped low in the wood meadow, and Cleve rose stiffly from his position in the pecan tree. A grapefruit sun was setting, casting oblong bars of…