One woman. One voice.
One hell of a legacy
in motion.
Penny Speaks × Penned Down = Branding Your Artistry, LLC. What started as poems became a place for the work, the voice, and the people building something of their own.
Penny Speaks
Books, performances, and the movement of the unmuted.
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Be a part of herstory. Publishing services for authors ready to bring their books into the world.
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Build brands that don’t beg. Graphic design, websites, and creative consulting.
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Writer’s
Block CLE.
Writing. Spoken word. Creative expression. A name already woven into the Pennyverse—and part of the vision for more voices to be heard.
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Speak. Answer.
Carry it forward.
Writer’s Block CLE makes room for people to find their voices. More Than a Semicolon asks what can happen when someone answers. BYA helps bring those words into the world.
More Than a Semicolon is a literary arts initiative of Writer’s Block CLE, an Ohio nonprofit corporation. Created by Penny Simmons, it uses poetry and shared stories to make room for conversations about isolation, grief, connection, and continuing. Creative publishing and production support is provided by Branding Your Artistry LLC.
Every story deserves another sentence.
The first experience taking shape is The Response: encounter a poem, answer through writing, and choose whether your words stay private or are shared with permission.