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VIRTUAL EVENT: Sewanee Writers' Conference Reading with Felicia Zamora
2020-10-29 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
Virtual SWC Reading Series

As part of the new SWC Reading Series, Sewanee Writers’ Conference will be hosting Fourth Thursday Readings, featuring SWC alumni.
SWC Reading Series with University of Cincinnati, Poetry Reading: Lisa Ampleman, Jennifer Habel, Aditi Machado, and Felicia Zamora
Oct. 29, 2020, 8PM EST Register

LIVE ON ZOOM Fall Fiction/Prose Reading at Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop
2020-10-29 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual

The Personal and the Political: Writing the (Social) Protest Novel
2020-10-29 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | CA
Talk with Ellen Meeropol, Sanderia Smith, Andrew Altschul, and Tina Egnoski on how to write a social protest novel. Thank you Book Moon for hosting this event!

LIVE ON ZOOM: Lara Ehrlich at Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop w/ Dennis James Sweeney, Elwin Cotman & Matthew Lansburgh
2020-10-29 18:30 (America/New_York) | CA
Join Lara Ehrlich in conversation about ANIMAL WIFE, her debut collection of stories about women’s transformations from girls into wives, mothers, and monsters. Winner of the Red Hen Press Fiction Award, judged by Ann Hood, Animal Wife will be on shelves September 8, 2020.

RHP x Institute for Latino Studies: Francisco Aragón
2020-10-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Red Hen Press and the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame present a reading and conversation with Francisco Aragón, author of After Rubén!

This book launch will include readings by Francisco Aragón, Brenda Cárdenas, Maria Melendez Kelson, Michael Nava, Urayoán Noel, and Misael Osorio-Conde.
Location: The StreamYard broadcast can be viewed from Red Hen Press’ YouTube profile: https://www.youtube.com/user/RedHenPressBeats
Or, via Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/redhenpress
Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He is the author of three books: After Rubén (Red Hen Press, 2020), Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press, 2010), and Puerta de Sol (Bilingual Press, 2005). He’s also the editor of, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007). His work has appeared in twenty-two anthologies, as well as various literary journals, both print and online. A native of San Francisco, CA, he is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), where he teaches courses in Latinx poetry and creative writing. He also directs the ILS’ literary initiative, Letras Latinas. He has read his work widely, including at universities, bookstores, art galleries, the Dodge Poetry Festival and the Split This Rock Poetry Festival. A CantoMundo fellow, he is also a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop. For more information, visit: http://franciscoaragon.net

Brenda Cárdenas’ books and chapbooks include Boomerang (Bilingual Press); Bread of the Earth/The Last Colors with Roberto Harrison; Achiote Seeds/Semillas de Achiote with Cristina García, Emmy Pérez, and Gabriela Erandi Rico; and From the Tongues of Brick and Stone (Momotombo Press). She also co-edited Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press). Cárdenas’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in Latino Poetics: The Art of Poetry, Grabbed: Take Back the Narrative, Hope Is the Thing: Wisconsinites On Hope and Resilience, Court Green, Ghost Fishing: An Eco Justice Anthology, POETRY, The Golden Shovel Anthology, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, and many others. She has served as Milwaukee’s Poet Laureate, co-taught the inaugural workshop for Letras Latina’s Pintura:Palabra: A Project in Ekphrasis, and currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Maria Melendez Kelson writes crime fiction, speculative short stories, magazine features, literary essays, and poetry. Her mystery novel-in-progress won the inaugural Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award from Sisters in Crime. Her poetry and prose appear in Poetry magazine, Orion, Ms. magazine, strandmag.com, and numerous anthologies. Author of two poetry collections (as Maria Melendez) published by University of Arizona Press, her books have been finalists for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Colorado Book Award. Find her on Twitter: @mkelsonauthor.
Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios who The New Yorker, called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” The New York Times Book Review has called Nava “one of our best” writers. In 2020, his latest Rios novel, Carved in Bone was awarded his seventh Lambda Literary Award in the gay mystery category. He has also been honored with the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in LGBT Literature. His award-winning historical novel, The City of Palaces, set at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican revolution, is set to be republished in September 2020 by Amble Press. Follow him on Twitter: @micnavawriter, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelNavaWriter/, website: http://michaelnavawriter.com/
Urayoán Noel is a Puerto Rican poet, performer, translator, and critic living in the Bronx, New York. He is the author of eight books of poetry, including Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (2015) and the forthcoming Transversal, both with the University of Arizona Press. His other works include the prize-winning study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press, 2014) and a bilingual edition of Pablo de Rokha’s poetry, Architecture of Dispersed Life, which was a finalist for the National Translation Award. He has recently performed at the Poesiefestival Berlin, the Toronto Biennial of Art, and the Woodberry Poetry Library, and on his Wokitokiteki vlog. Noel teaches at New York University and at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas. and he is currently a Schomburg Center scholar-in-residence.
Misael Osorio-Conde is a poet and a second-year MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame. He was born and grew up in Puebla, Mexico and migrated to Southern California when he was 17 in search of economic and academic opportunities. In 2019, along with Francisco Aragon and many of his peers, he participated in the national “One Poem Festival for Migrant Justice,” and conducted an interview with the poet Juan Morales. His work is forthcoming in the literary journal deLuge and the online literary journal Storyscape.

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VIRTUAL DISCUSSION: One City, Many Stories moderated by Ron Koertge
2020-10-27 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
A virtual conversation with award-winning authors Danzy Senna and Sherri L. Smith, moderated by South Pasadena Poet Laureate Ron Koertge.

One City, Many Stories (OCMS) encourages the community to engage with the theme “Exploring Common Ground” through reading and discussion of books that are, in some way, related to this theme.

More info here!

HH@Home: Marie Tozier, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Mia Heavener, Peggy Shumaker
2020-10-27 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
We’re so excited to host a reading and chat with Marie Tozier, author of OPEN THE DARK, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, author of EVERY ATOM, Mia Heavener, author of UNDER NUSHAGAK BLUFF, and moderated by Peggy Shumaker!
Viewable on Facebook.com/redhenpress, redhen.org, redhenpress.org, youtube.com/redhenpressbeats, or linkedin.com/company/red-hen-press

Don’t forget to pick up copies of these books and all books in our Fall season for 30% off using the code “HenHouseAtHome” here: https://tinyurl.com/HH-at-Home-Fall

The Open Fiction Book Group
2020-10-26 18:00 (America/New_York) | CA
The Open Fiction Book Group reads one paperback novel a month and its discussions are led by local author Chrysler Szarlan. The group typically meets the fourth Monday of each month at 6 p.m. Since the store will officially close at 6:00, please arrive a few minutes early to purchase your books.
While the store is closed, Open Fiction meetings will be held remotely using zoom. Please RSVP here to receive a zoom invite to the meeting.
October 26th: Her Sister’s Tattoo, Elli Meeropol

Red Hen Press 26th Benefit Champagne Luncheon
2020-10-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
More info coming soon. Check website for details.

VIRTUAL: Women Who Confound Expectations with Kristen Millares Young
2020-10-24 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Saturday October 24 | 7:00PM – 8:30PM
Virtual event for Kristen Millares Young featuring a reading and discussion with Kristen, Alexandra Teague and Sharma Shields.
During this reading and discussion, three award-winning women writers will share poetry and prose, and discuss writing against patriarchal expectations—both overtly and implicitly—within their work and in their writing lives.
Links to this virtual event coming soon!

HH@Home: Jim Peterson, Susan Ludvigson, Joshua Rivkin
2020-10-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
We’re so excited to host a reading and chat with Jim Peterson, author of THE HORSE WHO BEARS ME AWAY, Susan Ludvigson, author of WAVE IF YOU CAN SEE ME, and Joshua Rivkin, SUITOR!
Viewable on Facebook.com/redhenpress, redhen.org, redhenpress.org, youtube.com/redhenpressbeats, or linkedin.com/company/red-hen-press
Don’t forget to pick up copies of these books and all books in our Fall season for 30% off using the code “HenHouseAtHome” here: https://tinyurl.com/HH-at-Home-Fall

Escribiendo Memorias: Seattle Writes for Seattle Public Library
2020-10-18 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Una clase de escritura creativa.
A Spanish creative writing class taught by Kristen Millares Young.
More info here.

LIVE ON ZOOM: "Subduction" by Kristen Millares Young in conversation with Anca Szilágyi
2020-10-16 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Join us for a virtual reading with Kristen Millares Young, author of Subduction, in conversation with Anca Szilágyi on Friday, October 16th at 6:30 PM CST.
Subduction is a lyric retelling of the troubled history of encounter in the Americas. Through the ardent collision of two outsiders, a Latina anthropologist named Claudia and an underwater welder called Peter, Subduction portrays not only their strange allegiance after grievous losses but also their imperfect attempts to find community on the Makah Reservation.
More info here.

** Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83804618938?pwd=[REDACTED]

Virtual Event: Lara Ehrlich at Northshire Bookstore
2020-10-16 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | CA

LIVE ON YOUTUBE: Author Voices moderated by Kristen Millares Young
2020-10-14 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Join a conversation with Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans. Kristen Millares Young, author of Subduction, will moderate the discussion.
Watch here.

LIVE ON YOUTUBE: A Reading with Kristen Millares Young
2020-10-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Virtual
The Institute for Latino Studies’ literary initiative, Letras Latinas, along with Creative Writing and Adelante ND welcome author Kristen Millares Young for a public read from her debut novel. Young is the author of Subduction, a Paris Review staff pick called “whip-smart” by the Washington Post, a “brilliant debut” by the Seattle Times and an “utterly unique and important first novel” by Ms. Magazine. Subduction is a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards for best novel and best first book in 2020. An essayist, investigative journalist and book critic, Kristen served as Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House from 2018 to 2020.
More information here.

LIVE ON STREAMYARD: Kristen Millares Young reading Subduction!
2020-10-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Virtual
Named a staff pick by The Paris Review, Subduction is Kristen Millares Young’s debut novel. She holds an MFA from the University of Washington, and a B.A. from Harvard. She has also been a multimedia reporting fellow at Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley.
Location: The StreamYard broadcast can be viewed from Red Hen Press’ YouTube profile: https://www.youtube.com/user/RedHenPressBeats
Or, via Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/redhenpress

LIVE ON ZOOM: Amy Shearn & Emily Gray Tedrowe Joint Launch Party
2020-10-14 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
City life and art fraud, two of our favorite things! Join Amy Shearn and Emily Gray Tedrowe for a joint launch party of their respective novels, Unseen City and The Talented Miss Farwell.
This event is free, but registration is required. RSVP here.

Letras Latinas: Featuring Kristen Millares Young
2020-10-14 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Reading and discussion hosted by Letras Latinas with Red Hen Press, which will stream live on Facebook

LIVE ON FACEBOOK: Reading & Discussion with Kristen Millares Young
2020-10-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual
Left Bank Books presents prize-winning journalist and essayist Kristen Millares Young in conversation with fellow writers Kim Addonizio and Elizabeth Rosner. Tune into Left Bank Books’ Facebook Live at 7pm CDT on October 13.
More information here.

HH@Home: Reema Rajbanshi, Lara Ehrlich, and Tracy Daugherty
2020-10-13 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
We’re so excited to host a reading and chat with Reema Rajbanshi, author of SUGAR, SMOKE, SONG, Lara Ehrlich, author of ANIMAL WIFE, and Tracy Daugherty, author of HIGH SKIES!
Viewable on Facebook.com/redhenpress, redhen.org, redhenpress.org, youtube.com/redhenpressbeats, or linkedin.com/company/red-hen-press
Don’t forget to pick up copies of these books and all books in our Fall season for 30% off using the code “HenHouseAtHome” here: https://tinyurl.com/HH-at-Home-Fall

NxtGenNexus Virtual Launch Party for Jennifer Risher's WE NEED TO TALK
2020-10-08 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
An Intimate Conversation with authors Francis Stroh “Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss” and Jen Risher “We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth”
Register here.

LIVE ON ZOOM! PJ Seminar: Master Class On The Rules Of Attraction with Amy Shearn
2020-10-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual
If you’re writing a novel or short story with any sort of love or relationship plot, you know that a crucial part of making it work is convincing the reader of the attraction between the characters. But guess what? That’s really hard to do – or maybe I should say, really easy to get wrong. After all, the chemistry between two people is often inexplicable, created by intangible factors that can’t really be put into words. So… how do you put it into words?
Each of my three novels has contained some pretty significant romantic longing, so let me share what I’ve learned. Conveniently enough, some of the craft tools you’ll need to perfect are also widely applicable to character development in general.
In this seminar, we’ll go over a couple examples of fiction where this really, really works, and then I’ll share some tips and tricks for making your own writing simmer. We’ll do a couple exercises either based on characters you’re already working with or new ones created on the spot. Everyone will leave with a bit of new writing, and some ideas of how to make our readers feel what we want them to feel: convinced of our characters, and in love with what they’ve read.
Register for the masterclass here.

LIVE ON ZOOM: A Conversation with Kristen Millares Young
2020-10-06 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Silent Book Club presents a virtual chat with Kristen Millares Young, author of Subduction.
Tuesday, October 6, at 5pm PT / 8pm ET
Fill out the form here to register. We will email you a Zoom link prior to the event.
Buy your copy of the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/1275/9781597098922

HH@Home: Amy Shearn and Melanie Conroy
2020-10-06 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
We’re so excited to host a reading and chat with Amy Shearn, author of UNSEEN CITY, and Melanie Conroy-Goldman, author of THE LIKELY WORLD! Viewable on Facebook.com/redhenpress, redhen.org, redhenpress.org, youtube.com/redhenpressbeats, or linkedin.com/company/red-hen-press

Don’t forget to pick up copies of these books and all books in our Fall season for 30% off using the code “HenHouseAtHome” here: https://tinyurl.com/HH-at-Home-Fall

VIRTUAL: Changing Hands Bookstore Presents Felicia Zamora, Douglas Manuel, and Jason Schneiderman
2020-10-05 21:30 - 22:30 (America/Phoenix) | Virtual
Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix presents Felicia Zamora with Douglas Manuel and Jason Schneiderman!

VIRTUAL Workshop with Kristen Millares Young!
2020-10-04 11:00 - 12:05 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Kristen Millares Young will teach two 65 minute virtual workshops with Write on the Sound! Virtual classes are October 1 and October 4 and cost $20.
Register here!

Singapore Unbound Festival: "Revolutionary Family Histories" VIRTUAL Panel moderated by Aimee Liu
2020-10-03 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Political revolutions and uprisings from the left have traditionally sought to expand the individual’s sympathies beyond the family. One of the novel’s most intense preoccupations, however, is the bourgeois family. How does a novelist reconcile, or even exploit, this apparent tension when writing about war and revolution? With moderator Aimee Liu (Glorious Boy), panelists Elaine Castillo (America Is Not My Heart) and Meira Chand (A Different Sky) discuss their work and its relation to political unrest in the Philippines, Singapore, India, and the USA.
More info here.
RSVP here for Zoom link.

VIRTUAL Launch Party for Subduction!
2020-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Hosted by Hugo House, Red Hen Press & Elliott Bay Book Co. This event is free and open to the public.
Kristen Millares Young spent years researching SUBDUCTION before she began to write her debut novel, forthcoming from Red Hen Press on April 14, 2020. A lyric retelling of the troubled history of encounter in the Americas, SUBDUCTION follows a Latinx anthropologist, Claudia, as she embarks on fieldwork on the Makah Indian Reservation carrying serious baggage—her husband just ran off with her sister. Claudia loses control as soon as she arrives in Neah Bay, where she begins an affair with Peter, the son of her best research participant. Claudia helps Peter’s family convey a legacy delayed for decades by the death of his father. But her presence, echoing centuries of fraught contact with indigenous peoples, brings lasting change and real damage, too.
Through Peter and Claudia’s brutal and ardent collision, SUBDUCTION portrays not only their strange allegiance after grievous losses but also their imperfect attempts to find community on the Makah Indian Reservation. An intimate tale of stunning betrayals, Subduction bears witness to the power of stories to disrupt—and also to heal.
“The brilliance of Subduction only suggests the wonders to come. It is a good day for us when Kristen Millares Young puts pen to paper. Highly recommended.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea

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LIVE ON ZOOM: Women of Red Hen Press with Kristen Millares Young, Amber Flame, & Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
2020-10-01 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Join us for an evening with three acclaimed Seattle-area writers, all published by Red Hen Press!
Kristen Millares Young is the author of the novel Subduction, a Paris Review staff pick called “whip-smart” by the Washington Post, a “brilliant debut” by the Seattle Times and “utterly unique and important” by Ms. Magazine. Her essays, investigations and reviews appear in the Washington Post, Literary Hub, the Guardian, and elsewhere, as well as the anthologies Latina Outsiders, Pie & Whiskey and Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19. She was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize. From 2018 to 2020, Kristen served as Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House.

Amber Flame is a writer, composer and performer whose work has garnered artistic merit residencies with Hedgebrook, The Watering Hole, Vermont Studio Center, and Yefe Nof. Flame served as the 2017-2019 Poet-in-Residence at Hugo House. Her first collection, Ordinary Cruelty, was published in 2017 by Write Bloody Press, and her second collection is forthcoming from Red Hen Press.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her first book of poems, Water & Salt won the Washington State Book Award and was a finalist for the Arab American Book Awards. Her chapbook, Arab in Newsland, won the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize, and her most recent chapbook, Letters from the Interior, was published by Diode editions. Her poems and essays have received the Robert Watson Literary Prize and been published in Adroit journal, Jubilat, Kenyon Review Online, the New England Review, the Rumpus, Southern Humanities Review, and World Literature Today, among others.

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