by Abby Caplin after May Swenson It’s aboutfingers,strings,frets,plucks,andstrums. Fingerspressstringsto neck,abovefrets.Otherhand’sfingers,or thumb,pluck andstrum. Sometimes fretfingers are weak, don’tpress hard enough (zzzz)or want to wobble and cry(wah-wah-wah-wah). Orthey pull the string to make it ring. Strings stretch across neck, wait for finger to press hard or make like a hammer. Some- times strings…
On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the Word for Word Reading Series at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) featured the winners of the Penmen Review’s eleventh annual Fall Fiction Contest. This year’s contest had more than 900 submissions, from which five winners were chosen: First place, “How to Eat a Pomegranate,”…
The 11th annual Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) Fall Fiction Contest brought writers from across the country together for a chance to win a scholarship to SNHU and publication in The Penmen Review. After receiving hundreds of submissions, a panel of creative writing experts considered several factors during their review,…