“I find that a lot of my remembering has to do with books…"  – Colby Rodowsky Colby Rodowsky (1932-2020), born in Baltimore, grew up in New York, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore again. She spent part of every summer with her grandmother on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, wher...

“The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword, but the Wise Person Carries Both.” – SFWA Motto Jack Campbell is the pen name of John G. Hemry, a retired U.S. Navy officer, who draws on his military career to write military science fiction novels. He is the author of the New York Time...

In view of the COVID crisis, we are extending the submission deadline for the January 2021 issue of Pen In Hand to December 15, 2020. Please submit your best poems, short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, non-fiction, plays to [email protected] Photography of art ma...

“Writing is the perfect career for the lifelong learner because you’d better be.” – Eileen McIntire Eileen Haavik McIntire, author of the 90s Club mystery series, knows one thing for sure. The Nancy Drew she loved reading about as a child would still be piling up...

“The world is often a horrible place and women know this.” – Alma Katsu Alma Katsu was born in Alaska, but spent the majority of her youth living near Concord, Massachusetts, to which she attributes her interest in the early American history featured in her novels. She earned a Ba...