GrubStreet Grubbie Debut Author Series: M. Soledad Caballero discusses debut poetry book I WAS A BELL

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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, […]

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Malaprop’s Poetrio: Meghan Sterling, Sandra Meek, and Gaylord Brewer

Join us for Malaprop's monthly poetry event featuring three poets. This month, they welcome Meghan Sterling, Sandra Meek, and Gaylord Brewer. Click here to RSVP. On the day of the event, we will send a reminder email with the link required to attend. Like most of Malaprop's events, this event is free.

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Hen House at Home: The Lasting Impact of Short Stories

Virtual

October 7, 4:00pm PT Jim Peterson, author of THE SADNESS OF WHIRLWINDS, and Beth Gilstrap, author of Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Award Winner DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES, join us for this installment of the Red Hen Press Hen House at Home series! This week, we’re focusing on short stories: the craft of writing them, […]

Literary Investigations Featuring Red Hen Authors Kristen Millares Young and Dariel Suarez

A reading and discussion with Kristen Millares Young, Steve Almond, Dariel Suárez and Michelle D. Bowdler. Deep truths take time to find and artfulness to portray. To learn the craft of revealing the hidden, join us. Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 4 p.m. PST / 7 p.m. EST Belmont Books, 79 Leonard St, Belmont, MA 02478. Link […]

Hen House at Home: Exposed: Capturing Personal Trauma

Virtual

It’s difficult to capture traumatic personal events in a memoir. How do you do it? We ask two memoirists from Red Hen Press’s Fall 2021 season: Jan Beatty, author of AMERICAN BASTARD, explores her journey trying to find her birth parents. Joan Nockels Wilson’s THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY: THE DEVIL, MY BROTHER, AND ME shares […]

Hen House at Home: The New Moons Celebration

Virtual

Red Hen Press is so honored to be publishing this important and vital anthology highlighting work by contemporary North American Muslims. In this special event, with an introduction by editor Kazim Ali, we celebrate this anthology with flash readings from over 20 contributors! View the event on Zoom here! Join us LIVE on November 3 […]

Tom Sanders Memorial Reading: Laurie Ann Guerrero & Carl Marcum

Guidance regarding COVID-19 procedures at our Reading & Lecture Series events is available here. All events will be streamed live on our website.  We are proud to present a reading by Laurie Ann Guerrero and Carl Marcum. Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio and is the author of four collections: Babies under the […]

Bazaar Writers Salon Readings by Jan Beatty, Shangyang Fang, Benjamin Gucciardi, and Noah Warren Hosted by Peter Kline

Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St., San Francisco, CA, United States

Jan Beatty, author of AMERICAN BASTARD, will be reading at the Bazaar Writers Salon, hosted by Peter Kline. Jan Beatty’s sixth book, The Body Wars, was published in 2020 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. In the New York Times, Naomi Shihab Nye said: “Jan Beatty’s new poems in The Body Wars shimmer with luminous […]

VIRTUAL: Kristen Millares Young with Louise Erdrich!

The National Book Award-winning author of seventeen novels, Louise Erdrich’s fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. Red Hen author Kristen Millares Young moderates this conversation! In her new, powerful, and timely novel, The Sentence, Erdrich explores how the burdens of history, and especially identity, […]

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Jan Beatty, C.Dale Young, & Peter Kline

Online

Join us for this rare reading by three compelling poets! JAN BEATTY celebrates and reads from her new books, "American Bastard: A Memoir," winner of the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award, and "The Body Wars: Poems." PETER KLINE reads from "Mirrorforms." C. DALE YOUNG reads from "Prometeo," published by Four Way Books. "Heartbreaking and beautiful […]

Literature and Jazz – A Grand Re-Opening Celebration

Red Hen Press 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, United States

A Re-Opening Celebration with Red Hen Press Featuring Richard Blanco, Lynne Thompson, and Jan Beatty, with music by Dr. Ray Briggs IN PERSON Friday, November 12, 7:00pm PT (Doors open at 6:00pm PT). 1540 Lincoln Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91114   **All guests must be fully vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination at the door. Attendees […]