Please register for this event by snagging a ticket on Eventbrite! There are both free tickets and pay-what-you-can tickets available. Registration will end at 6:30pm ET on 9/10. We’re thrilled to celebrate the release of local poet and professor M. Soledad Caballero’s collection, I Was a Bell!! She’ll be joined by Celeste Gainey, Sarah Williams-Devereux, […]
On September 13, at 4:00pm London Time (8:00am PT), the PEN International Women Writers Committee will host a Global Poetry Zoom: Staying in Touch, Sharing Our Stories. It is a curated, rehearsed online Poetry Reading. The theme, as you can see, is staying current with each other through our poems — sharing our personal and […]
Red Hen Press and Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City of Santa Monica and the Annenberg Community Beach House, are proud to present this fantastic virtual reading and conversation from four women authors who hold interesting, non-literary full-time professions. We’ll explore how these authors balance their jobs with the creativity and work […]
Kristen Millares Young teaches a personal essay workshop in partnership with Jack Straw Arts! Register via Zoom below! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcOmsrjIvH93ahiyxJ1sv1YZagJ04HJze
Lily Hoang and Jaye Viner on traumatic stories inspired by true events Red Hen’s next installment of our Hen House at Home series features two incredible fiction writers: Lily Hoang, author of UNDERNEATH, and Jaye Viner, author of JANE OF BATTERY PARK. Both of these fictional novels have a basis in today’s reality: UNDERNEATH inspired […]
Sven Birkerts is the co-editor of AGNI, and the former director of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He is the author of eleven books, including The Gutenberg Elegies, The Art of Time in Memoir, and, most recently, Speak, Memory (part of the Bookmarked series from Ig Publishing). Martha Cooley’s most recent novel is Buy Me Love. […]
In Hungary, one summer’s night in 1969, Judy Temes’ family packed the car for, what was supposed to be, a vacation to Vienna. Judy’s parents took her 12-year-old brother and left her behind. She was five-years-old and was given to her grandmother. Her family wasn’t taking a vacation. They were escaping Hungary’s totalitarian regime. Her […]
Join Nicole Stellon O'Donnell in a craft talk, where she'll discuss using sequences and patterns as a generative act! This is a part of the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Zoom Link Here to Join: https://alaska.zoom.us/j/88180614945?pwd=Rk5BSjFVNTZDMEZlRmhOVkpRYURzZz09
Please join us online at 7pm AKST for Nicole Stellon O'Donell's poetry reading on the UAF College of Liberal Arts Facebook page. Nicole Stellon O'Donnell is the author of three collections of poetry, including the just-released, Everything Never Comes Your Way. Her second book, You Are No Longer in Trouble, was the 2019 open submission […]
All Levels | In this class, we will discuss the dictionary, the bop, the golden shovel, the ghazal, the gacela, found poems, visual poems, and more. We’ll explore how you can change a poem’s form and deepen its content by doing so. We will explore the back and forth relationship between form and content-- Participants will be sent poems […]
All Levels | In this class, we will discuss the dictionary, the bop, the golden shovel, the ghazal, the gacela, found poems, visual poems, and more. We’ll explore how you can change a poem’s form and deepen its content by doing so. We will explore the back and forth relationship between form and content-- Participants will be sent poems […]
GrubStreet and Porter Square Books have partnered for a celebratory new reading and conversation series that goes behind the scenes with members of the GrubStreet community to launch their debut books. These are all authors whose time in GrubStreet’s classes, conferences, and/or events shaped their books in some important way. In candid conversations with fellow authors, […]
