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Penelope Week is back for another year and 2026's Prompts and Dates are officially out!

Penelope Week 2026 will be held from Monday, 10th of August to Sunday, 16th of August.

There are a wide range of prompts for everyone to choose and work on in any capacity or to use as inspiration, whether that be sfw or nsfw - so do let your imaginations run wild! We encourage art of all different forms focusing on the iconic Greek Heroine!

Feel free to hit us up with any questions or doubts you may have! Our inbox is always open 🩷

Guidelines and Accessible List of Prompts below:

Originally I also see her as having black hair and a tight bun but the blonde Penelope propaganda got to me so now I can't see her as anything other than blonde.

My first experience with the Odyssey is a comic book about Greek mythology for children and I remember Penelope design in that comic being my favourite, so most of my current design of her is based on it

my favorite boy Odysseus 🐶💗

Made a Penelope :D

⋆.𐙚 ̊ because your first draft was you telling yourself the story. your second draft is you telling the story to your readers. there's a difference. you know what you meant when you wrote "she felt sad" at 2am, but your reader doesn't. editing is where you translate your midnight brain into something other people can actually feel.

⋆.𐙚 ̊ because you'll find so much you forgot you wrote. little gems buried in the mess. that perfect metaphor you threw in casually in chapter four that actually ties into the climax. that side character who showed up for one scene but could be so much more. editing is like going on an archaeological dig through your own imagination.

⋆.𐙚 ̊ because plot holes don't fix themselves and you've definitely got some. everyone does. your character's eye color changed. your timeline makes no sense. someone died in chapter eight but they're having breakfast in chapter twelve. editing is where you catch these things before your readers do, and trust me, readers always catch these things.

⋆.𐙚 ̊ because editing is where you kill your darlings and birth your favorites. that scene you loved writing but doesn't serve the story? it can go. but that throwaway line that suddenly becomes the entire thematic backbone of your book? that's editing magic. you're not just cutting and polishing. you're discovering what your book was actually about all along.

⋆.𐙚 ̊ because distance gives you perspective, and editing gives you distance. when you read your work weeks or months later, you're not the same person who wrote it. you can see the flaws. you can see the potential. you can be honest about what's working and what's just you being precious about words that don't earn their keep.

⋆.𐙚 ̊ because good books aren't written, they're rewritten. every author you love edited their work. probably multiple times. probably while crying. probably while thinking "this is still terrible." and then they edited it again. and again. until one day it wasn't terrible anymore. that's the process. editing is where good becomes great.

Saw a vase on Etsy, needed to draw Odysseus and Penelope

(How about the ULTIMATE ship art ?)

Odysseus and Penelope looking down at her dead suitors

Then there he stood and all around him, over the beaten floor,

the bodies sprawled in heaps, lying one on another…

How it would have thrilled your heart to see him—

splattered with bloody filth, a lion with his kill!

– The Odyssey