30th Benefit Champagne Luncheon


We are back with hybrid programming celebrating in Noor’s indoor ballroom!

We invite you to Red Hen’s annual benefit gala for an exciting lunch event filled with readings, a live auction, and a chance to meet Red Hen Press authors and members of the literary community. We hope you can join us in celebrating our 30th year at our grandest benefit yet!

Date: Sunday, October 6, 2024

Time: 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM

Location: Noor Pasadena – 300 E Colorado Blvd #200, Pasadena, CA 91101 (located in the Paseo)


Featured Gold Table Host Authors:

Aliah Wright — Author of Now You Owe Me
Aliah Wright worked her way through college simultaneously as an editorial assistant for the Philadelphia Daily News and as a stringer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. A successful journalist, she spent her career working for a variety of news outlets. Those include the Associated Press, where she was a political correspondent, and the USA Today Network as the former entertainment editor for Gannett News Service. A graduate of Temple University, she lives with her family just outside her hometown of Philadelphia. This is her first novel. Follow her on TikTok @aliahwrites!

Douglas ManuelAuthor of Trouble Funk Sponsored by Gina Knox
Douglas Manuel was born in Anderson, Indiana and now resides in Long Beach, California. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, an MFA in poetry from Butler University, and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. His first collection of poems, Testify, won an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for poetry, and his poems and essays can be found in numerous literary journals, magazines, and websites, most recently Zyzzyva, Pleiades, and the New Orleans Review. He has traveled to Egypt and Eritrea with The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program to teach poetry. A recipient of the Dana Gioia Poetry Award and a fellowship from the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts, he is a Bayard Rustin Fellow at Whittier College and teaches at Spalding University’s low-res MFA program.

Florencia Ramirez — Author of Eat Less Water Sponsored by James Wilson
Florencia Ramirez is a trained researcher at the University of Chicago’s School of Public Policy. She won the sixth Gift of Freedom Creative Nonfiction Award from the A Room of Her Own Foundation (AROHO). Her articles appear in Edible Communities Magazine, the San Jose Mercury News, among others, and her popular blog. She lives in Oxnard, California, an agricultural town on the Pacific coast that smells of celery, strawberries and fertilizers with her husband and three young children.

Jason Schneiderman Author of Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire Sponsored by Christian Teresi (two-thirds of table still available!)
Jason Schneiderman is the author of four books of poems: Hold Me Tight (Red Hen Press 2020), Primary Source (Red Hen Press 2016), Striking Surface (Ashland Poetry Press 2010), and Sublimation (Four Way Books 2004). He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press 2016). His poetry and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Grand Street, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. He is an Associate Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY and lives in Brooklyn.

David St. JohnAuthor of The Last Troubadour Sponsored by Larry Bridges and Dana Gioia
David St. John is the author of twelve collections of poetry including Study for the World’s Body, nominated for The National Book Award in Poetry; The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems; and, most recently, Prayer for My Daughter. A past chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, David St. John is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of Southern California.


Featured Silver Table Host Authors:

Carlos Allende Author of Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love

Esinam Bediako Author of Blood on the Brain

Brendan Constantine Author of Dementia, My Darling Sponsored by Nancy Boutin (half-table still available!)

Jose Hernandez Diaz Author of Portrait of the Artist As a Brown Man (Upcoming)

Kim Dower Author of I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom Sponsored by Deborah Lott and Gary Edelstone

Jenny Factor Author of Want, the Lake Sponsored by Cynthia Hogue and Jenny Factor

Amber Flame Author of apocrifa Sponsored by Ronald Koertge, Bianca Richards, Eloise Klein Healy, and Colleen Rooney

Denise Frost Author of A Punishing Breed Sponsored by Ann Beman

E.P. Tuazon Author of A Professional Lola

Luke Goebel Author of Kill Dick (Upcoming)

Aimee Liu Author of Glorious Boy

Pete Hsu Author of If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home

Lisa See Author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Sponsored by Liz Rodgers and ALTA

Kristen Millares Young Author of Subduction Sponsored by Kimberly Brown Seely and Katherine Anderson

Bonnie Nadell President, Hill Nadell Literary Agency Sponsored by Linda Horioka and Cindy Ballard

Writing in the Schools Sponsored by Katharine Coles


Sponsorship Packages and Tickets

Individual Tickets – $200

  • 1 admission to the benefit luncheon
  • Red Hen gift bag including exclusive merchandise and books

Virtual Tickets – $50

  • 1 virtual admission to live-streamed programming from 12:30p-2:00p
  • Red Hen gift bag including exclusive merchandise and books, mailed to you!

Gold Table Sponsorship – $6,000

  • 10 admissions to the benefit seated at the same table with your host(s)
  • Sit alongside an author of your choice from the gold table host list
  • Autographed books by the author for you and each of your guests
  • 3 broadsides featuring each presenting author’s work and hand-signed by their respective authors
  • A Red Hen gift bag exclusively for event attendees
  • Acknowledgment during the event and online
  • A bottle of champagne at your table for you and your guests

Silver Table Sponsorship – $4,000

  • 10 admissions to the benefit seated at the same table with your host(s)
  • Sit alongside an author of your choice from the silver table host list
  • Autographed books by the author for you and each of your guests
  • A Red Hen gift bag exclusively for event attendees
  • Acknowledgment during the event and online

Bronze Table Sponsorship – $2,500

  • 12 admissions to the benefit seated at the same table
  • A Red Hen gift bag exclusively for event attendees
  • Acknowledgment during the event and online

Other Sponsorship Opportunities

Publishing Sponsor – $5,000

  • Inclusion on a Red Hen donor wall, to be displayed at the front of its Pasadena office
  • Receive in-text acknowledgment in publications of your choice of one of Red Hen’s programs: Letras Latinas, Pighog Press, Quill Publishing, Story Line Press, Xeno Books, or Writing in the Schools
  • Sponsorship noted on our website and at the event
  • Ability to use Red Hen Press resources in corporate campaigns or personal branding

Program Sponsor – $3,000

Book Angel Sponsor – $1,000

  • Sponsorship noted on our website and at the event
  • An optional choice of acknowledgment (in-print) inside an upcoming Red Hen title

Please call (626) 506-2017 or email henhouse@redhen.org to request additional information about Red Hen’s benefit or make a table purchase.