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

02/18/2026

02/17/2026

Join in on the state-wide celebration of Toni Morrison with a live reading of her novel, Jazz, and a live jazz performance tomorrow at YSU! 🎷📖

Jazz novel reading:
📅Wednesday, Feb. 18 | ⏰ 9-11:30 and 2-3
📍DeBartolo Hall lobby

Live jazz performance interlude:
📅Wednesday, Feb. 18 | ⏰ 11:30-1:30
📍Bliss Hall 2200

02/11/2026

Meet 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 ✨📚, bestselling author, storyteller, and creator of unforgettable worlds like The Raven Cycle, Shiver, and The Scorpio Races. Her work blends magic, mystery, and emotion in a way that keeps readers hooked from the first page. We can’t wait for students to dive into her stories and hear her insights this spring! 🌟📖

02/09/2026

Join in on the state-wide celebration of Toni Morrison with a live reading of her novel, Jazz, and a live jazz performance! 🎷📖

Jazz novel reading:
📅Wednesday, Feb. 18 | ⏰ 9-3
📍DeBartolo Hall lobby

Live jazz performance:
📅Wednesday, Feb. 18 | ⏰ 12-1
📍Bliss Hall 2200

01/21/2026

Looking forward to Lit Youngstown’s annual winter gala! Hope to see some of you there!

Baby, it's cold outside! Join us for the evening of warmth and fun that we deserve. Doors open at 6:15pm with our famous charcuterie and desserts, and jazz by the Catro Trio at Culturati Studios, 350 E Federal St. We'll begin the program at 7:00pm. Tickets cost $55 in advance, $65 at the door. Cli....

01/07/2026

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!

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