WRITING PROMPTS

The Penny Pub Submission Guidelines

A place for meaningful engagement through bi-monthly writing prompts about culture and lifestyle

Kim Kelly Stamp
The Penny Pub
Published in
6 min readDec 5, 2023

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The Penny Pub is accepting new writers!

Please read the following guidelines carefully so you are clear about how to join our community, what we are looking for, and how to format your submissions.

Please note that submissions during evening hours (US Eastern Time) and weekends will often take 12–36 hours to edit.

We are a pub that edits before publishing. You can count on us to leave private notes, make grammatical corrections, adjust the structure of a sentence here and there, and format and space paragraphs in a way that makes readers have an easier time.

If you are looking to drop a story and have it quickly published without edits, Penny Pub is likely not a good fit.

At The Penny Pub, we value quality writing and meaningful engagement. We hope to build a supportive community of writers and readers as we expand our thinking related to culture-driven topics.

The Penny Pub is intended to function like your favorite neighborhood pub or coffee shop. A place where you might swing by for a quick cocktail, mocktail, or iced…

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Kim Kelly Stamp
The Penny Pub

Owner of The Penny Pub. Editor for Parasol Pubs. Essayist. Espresso Enthusiast. LGBTQIA. PNW Native. Gigi Extraordinaire. Work in: NYT, Shondaland, HuffPost,+