Red Hen Press

LIVE ON ZOOM: Voices of Womxn Salon with Kristen Millares Young
2020-09-25 16:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Please join us for a Zoom edition of our literary salon for women and womxn-identified writers, readers, and literary enthusiasts. VOW is an opportunity for women and womxn-identified folks to share stories, ideas, and business cards (virtually). Bring friends and meet new ones.
Join Kristen Millares Young on September 25!

LIVE ON ZOOM: An Evening with Ryan Black, Maya Phillips, and Jason Schneiderman
2020-09-25 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual
HVWC welcomes three amazing poets—Ryan Black, Maya Phillips, and Jason Schneiderman—as they read from their most recent award-winning collections. This reading is free and open to the public via Zoom but there is a suggested $5 reading fee.
Register here.
Ryan Black is the author of The Tenant of Fire (University of Pittsburgh Press), winner of the 2018 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Death of a Nativist, selected by Linda Gregerson for the Poetry Society of America’s 2016 Chapbook Fellowship. He has published previously or has work forthcoming in The Best American Poetry, Blackbird, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly, and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships and scholarships from the Adirondack Center for Writing, The Millay Colony for the Arts, PLAYA, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the T. S. Eliot House, and the Queens Council on the Arts. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Queens College/CUNY, and lives in Jackson Heights, NY.
Maya Phillips was born and raised in New York. Maya received her BFA in writing, literature, and publishing with a concentration in poetry from Emerson College and her MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers. Her poetry has appeared in American Literary Review, At Length, BOAAT, Ghost Proposal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Rumpus, Vinyl, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, and The New York Times Magazine, among others. Her arts & entertainment journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, Mashable, Slate, The Week, American Theatre, and more. She is the author of the poetry collection Erou (Four Way Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award and winner of the 2020 Poetry by the Sea book award. She is the recipient of a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Her second book, NERD: On Navigating Heroes, Magic, and Fandom in the 21st Century, is forthcoming in summer 2022 by Atria Books. Maya is the inaugural arts critic fellow at The New York Times, where she writes about theater, movies, TV, books, and nerd culture. She lives in Brooklyn.
Jason Schneiderman is the author of three books of poems: Primary Source (Red Hen Press 2016), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Prize; Striking Surface (Ashland Poetry Press 2010),winner of the Richard Snyder Prize, and Sublimation Point (Four Way Books 2004), a Stahlecker Selection. He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press 2015). His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Grand Street, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Story Quarterly, and Tin House. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center, and The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He was the recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2004, and a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in 2011. He is an Associate Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

VIRTUAL LUNCHEON: PNBA's Authors on the Map with Kristen Millares Young
2020-09-29 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
The Authors on the Map event has been featured at our shows for more than twenty years, and it is one of the most respected and well-attended author events at each show. This year we are changing things up and making it one of our featured breakfasts–which should only increase attendance and popularity.
Authors on the Map was specifically designed to feature newer Northwest authors whose books have not yet made it to any of the bestseller lists, who have written a potential breakout book, and who indicate a willingness to hold events at a number of our member stores. The booksellers and librarians that attend the event will be taking note of books and authors that will be a good fit for their stores. Each year, several of the books featured at this event are nominated for a PNBA Book Award. Several of these have gone on to win.
More info here.

HH@Home: Jennifer Risher
2020-09-29 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We’re so excited to host a reading and chat with Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK! 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 Book Launch: UNSEEN CITY by Amy Shearn in conversation with Siobhan Adcock
2020-09-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
Register here!
Unseen City is a multi-generational portrait of New York and the unexpected connections between a lonely Brooklyn librarian, a widower returning to his roots, and a ghost still lingering in a home that was once part of an activist-founded farming settlement.
In a city teeming with stories, how do lost souls find one another? It’s a question Meg Rhys doesn’t think she’s asking. Meg is a self-identified spinster librarian, satisfied with living with her cat, stacks of books, and her dead sister’s ghost in her New York City apartment. Then she becomes obsessed with an intriguing library patron and the haunted house he’s trying to research. The house has its own story to tell too, of love and war, of racism’s fallout and the ghost story that is gentrification, and of Brooklyn before it was Brooklyn. What follows is an exploration of what home is, how we live with loss, who belongs in the city and to whom the city belongs, and the possibilities and power of love.

LIVE ON ZOOM: KGB Bar Goes Virtual
2020-09-30 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Featuring Ellen Meeropol, Donna Hemans, and Sebastian Matthews!

VIRTUAL Workshop with Kristen Millares Young
2020-10-01 08:30 - 09:35 (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!

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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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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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 Workshop with Kristen Millares Young!
2020-10-04 11:00 - 12:05 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual

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!

HH@Home: Amy Shearn and Melanie Conroy
2020-10-06 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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

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

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.

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.

HH@Home: Reema Rajbanshi, Lara Ehrlich, and Tracy Daugherty
2020-10-13 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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]

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.

HH@Home: Jim Peterson, Susan Ludvigson, Joshua Rivkin
2020-10-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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

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!

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

The Open Fiction Book Group
2020-10-26 18:00 (America/New_York)
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
