Jenny Magazine

Jenny Magazine accepts submissions once a year in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art. Allow us a moment to explain the title of our venture.

Youngstown State University’s Student Literary Arts Association is proud to invite you to submit work to our online literary magazine: Jenny. Like many struggling postindustrial cities across the country, Youngstown, Ohio is a place defined by images of ruin and rust, and there are few images more striking than that of the Jeannette Blast Furnace. “Jenny,” as plant workers called her and as Bruce

Springsteen referred to her in his 1995 song “Youngstown,” was one of two furnaces located at Youngstown Sheet and Tube. It was a place where things were made, shaped, created. The blast furnace was shut down in the late 1970s and was demolished in 1996. Steel was one of many industries that left this region built on manufacturing in the last four decades of our history. While the absence of our blast furnaces has been felt in terrible ways throughout our region, our fire has not gone out. In the aftermath of de-industrialization, we are not a people without industry. Youngstown is not done creating, not done making. We are each of us, every day, telling stories. Here in the pages of Jenny, we aim to display some of those artifacts made by wordsmiths and visual artists alike.

-YSU Student Literary Arts Association

10/16/2025

Lit Youngstown's 2024 Fall Literary Festival laid out, day-by-day, presentation-by-presentation.

09/18/2025

Jenny Magazine's 2026 submission portal for issue number 24 (!) is open! Please send us your best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It's an open themed issue. And featured visual artists, please send us your work too!

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04/07/2025

A great workshop opportunity for those interesting in songwriting. Looking forward to the night of original music too!

04/04/2025

The 23rd issue of Jenny Magazine is now live! We have a wonderful table of contents, and hope you enjoy all that we have gathered for you this year!

Jamie Beasley is a multi-media interdisciplinary artist whose work explores his experiences as a transgender and neurodivergent individual. He is currently a studio art major at YSU.

12/01/2024

Don’t forget we are open for submissions until January 24th!

11/07/2024

Position: Development CoordinatorLit Youngstown is seeking a part-time Development Coordinator to help support the fiscal well being of a literary arts nonprofit.The Development Coordinator will be responsible for: • Working with team to conceptualize, plan and execute fundraising events • Grant...

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