What we want:
Virginia is home to mountains, lakes, beaches, farmlands, cities, and much more. Here at the Penultimate Peanut, we're interested in stories from Virginians or stories about Virginia, specifically the Hampton Roads area. We hate to play favorites, but this is where we live and these are the stories we want to see. This doesn't mean we won't look at stories from or about other places, but any such stories will come second.

What we don't want:
We don't enjoy stories that glorify violence and evil. That doesn't mean your story can't have anything bad happen in it or that it must have a happy ending, but violence and evil have consequences and we don't want stories that make it seem like there are none. Also, please no stories with gratuitous swearing or sex. If it serves a purpose for the story, that's fine, but we don't want stories dominated by it.

Things to consider:
Are you a hundred-year-old ham? Do you have a story about one? There's some pretty cool history about this area. The Penultimate Peanut is happy to look over historical or creative non-fiction essays about this strange and interesting place we live in. Just remember to keep it redemptive (for more ideas about what we find redemptive, see our mission statement above.)

Submissions should be double spaced, 12 point font, Times or Times New Roman, doc. docx. pdf. or rtf. files only, and standard manuscript format. For more information on what standard manuscript format looks like, here is a helpful website to visit. Proofread, proofread, proofread. We cannot emphasize this enough. We admit, we're lazy, and too many typos and or poor grammar is great way for us to take stories out of consideration. Send us your best work.