Red Hen Press

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) | VT
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) | VT
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) | VT
More info coming soon. Check website for details.

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

HH@Home: Marie Tozier, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Mia Heavener, Peggy Shumaker
2020-10-27 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | VT
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

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!

RHP x Institute for Latino Studies: Francisco Aragón
2020-10-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | VT
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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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) | VT

The Personal and the Political: Writing the (Social) Protest Novel
2020-10-29 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | VT
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 Fall Fiction/Prose Reading at Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop
2020-10-29 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual

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

Sebastian Matthews reading from his new book BEYOND REPAIR: LIVING IN A FRACTURED STATE
2020-11-12 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
Come watch Red Hen author Sebastian Matthews read from his new book Beyond Repair: Living in a Fractured State, alongside his guest, novelist Daniel Wallace. Mark the date, November 12, 6 P.M EST (3 P.M PDT). The discussion is presented by Flyleaf Books.

Susan Kinsolving reading at "TOGETHER IN A SUDDEN STRANGENESS: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic"
2020-11-17 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. Moderated by Alice Quinn, this event features readings by contributors Billy Collins, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Tomás Q. Morín, Susan Kinsolving, Vijay Seshadri & April Bernard.
As the Novel Coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Overwhelmed by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the compassionate verses that were arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. Whether grieving for relatives they are separated from, recovering from illness themselves, attending to suddenly complicated household tasks, or considering the bravery of medical workers and the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement, our poets are just like us, but with the words to describe what can feel unspeakably difficult and strange. From fierce and resilient to wistful, darkly humorous, and emblematically reverent about the earth and the vulnerability of human beings in frightening times, the poems in this collection provide wisdom and companionship, depths of feeling that enliven our spirits, and a poignant summoning to the page of spring’s inevitable return.
Alice Quinn was the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years, Poetry Editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007, and an editor at Knopf for more than ten years prior to that. She currently teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and is the editor of a book of Elizabeth Bishop’s writings, Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, as well as a forthcoming book of Bishop’s journals. She lives in New York City.
Billy Collins is the former Poet Laureate of the United States (2001-2003). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the author of many collections, including The Rain in Portugal and, most recently, Whale Day which was published in September 2020.
Kamilah Aisha Moon is the author of Starshine & Clay and She Has a Name. She teaches creative writing at Agnes Scott College and has been published widely, including in The Best American Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Harvard Review, and Poem-a-Day.
Tomás Q. Morín is the author of Patient Zero and A Larger Country. He is a Civitella Ranieri Fellow and the author of a forthcoming memoir, Let Me Count the Ways.
Susan Kinsolving’s poems have been described by The New Yorker as “…grand and almost terrifying.” Her fourth collection, Peripheral Vision, was published by Red Hen Press. She is Poet in Residence at the Hotchkiss School.
Vijay Seshadri’s latest poetry book is That Was Now, This Is Then (Graywolf Press, 2020). His work has been widely published and recognized with a number of honors. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
April Bernard writes poetry, fiction, and essays; her most recent books are Miss Fuller, a novel, and Brawl & Jag, a collection of poems. She teaches at Skidmore College and in the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars.
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Politics & Prose VIRTUAL PANEL with Lara Erhlich, Chelsea Catherine, Melanie Conroy-Goldman, Reema Rajbanshi, & Amy Shearn
2020-11-17 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Crushes: The Literary, Real, Undeniable, and Indelible
A crush is a kind of fiction, a story we build around an impossible love on scant evidence. This is why crushes make such a compelling subject for writers—intense emotion on an inevitable collision course with reality. Join 5 Red Hen authors as we talk about crushes in fiction, confess our own, and share some recipes for love potions—just in case you’re crushing on someone yourself.
Time TBD.

Aimee Liu and members of Red Hen talk the process of publishing a novel!
2020-11-18 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | VT
Aimee Liu, author of GLORIOUS BOY, alongside Managing Editor Dr. Kate Gale & Deputy Director Tobi Harper of Red Hen are having a discussion on the process of creating and publishing a manuscript! They will be revealing how this manuscript made it to the marketplace and met the many obstacles posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Event starts at 2pm EST/ 11am PST
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LIVE on ZOOM: Glorious Boy: From Manuscript to Marketplace
2020-11-18 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | VT
GLORIOUS BOY
Aimee Liu in conversation with Megan Beatie, Dr. Kate Gale, and Fauzia Burke
Wednesday, November 18, 2pm ET
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Novelist Aimee Liu and members of her publishing team will discuss the process of creating and publishing Liu’s novel Glorious Boy, revealing how this manuscript made it to the marketplace and met the many obstacles posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. These industry professionals will candidly share their experiences regarding publicity, social media, working with agents and editors, and the unique challenges of book publishing in 2020.
From Manuscript to Marketplace panel discussions will take place via Zoom and include time for Q&A. All writers are encouraged to attend, especially new authors looking to learn more about the business of writing and publishing.
If you would to purchase Glorious Boy, we recommend purchasing from one of Aimee Liu’s local bookstores Bookshop.org, Diesel Books, Skylight Books.
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Aimee Liu is author of the novels Glorious Boy, Flash House,  Cloud Mountain, and  Face, as well as the memoirs Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders and Solitaire. Her bestsellers include a Literary Guild Super Release and have been published in more than 12 languages and serialized in Good Housekeeping. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches in Goddard College’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Port Townsend, WA.
Megan Beatie is an independent book publicist with more than two decades of publishing experience. She has expertise in publicizing literary and commercial fiction, mysteries and thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, and books for young readers, as well as nonfiction covering pop culture, film, entertainment, health, lifestyle, parenting, and relationships.
Dr. Kate Gale is co-founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press and Editor of the Los Angeles Review. She is also the author of seven books of poetry and six librettos. She teaches in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing programs at the University of Nebraska and Ashland University.
Fauzia Burke is the founder and President of FSB Associates, an online publicity and marketing firm specializing in creating awareness for books and authors. She’s the author of Online Marketing for Busy Authors and Chief Marketing Officer of Pub Site, a platform for building author websites.

About Glorious Boy
Glorious Boy is a novel about war and devotion, longing and loss, and the power of love to prevail. Set in India’s remote Andaman Islands before and during WWII, the story revolves around a mysteriously mute 4-year-old who vanishes on the eve of Japanese Occupation. Library Journal calls the book “a riveting amalgam of history, family epic, anticolonial/antiwar treatise, cultural crossroads… a fascinating, irresistible marvel.”

Lara Ehrlich teaching at Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop
2020-11-21 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | VT
Lara Ehrlich, author of Animal Bride, teaching the Course “Writing Raw: Exploring Mythical Transformation in Fairytales & Fiction” ($30)

Keith Flynn & Sebastian Matthews Virtual Event, Dec. 5th
2020-12-05 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
https://www.citylightsnc.com/event/keith-flynn-sebastian-matthews-virtual-event
Join [city lights bookstore] on Saturday, December 5th, at 3 p.m. for a virtual event with Keith Flynn and Sebastian Matthews. The event will broadcast via Facebook Live [https://www.facebook.com/citylightsnc] and will feature live readings of recent works by both authors.
The Skin of Meaning is award-winning poet Keith Flynn’s sixth and most wide-ranging collection, seeking to find the tangible analogs and visceral meanings hidden behind the daily bombardment of digital information, hoping to restore the mystery in our involvement with language. From the etymologies of pop culture, history, astronomy, and rock and roll, these poems fan out into a bold multiplicity of voices and techniques. Flynn’s work illustrates the meaning that is also created through tense collisions and is populated with figures in resistance to the status quo, a gathering as varied as Caravaggio, Nina Simone, Gaudi, Villon, Wonder Woman, and Manolete. The final section examines America’s fascination with violence and death, revealing that “a human being in love with mystery is never finished.” This collection constantly challenges our assumptions about the world we think we see and is teeming with evidence of another invisible world bristling like an underground river beneath our feet.
Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day. His hybrid collection of poetry and prose, Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision, won the Independent Publishers Book Award’s silver medal. Matthews is also the author of the collage novel The Life & Times of American Crow and the memoir-in-essays Beyond Repair: Living in a Fractured State.

Event date:

Saturday, December 5, 2020 – 3:00pm [EST]

Event address:

Facebook Live

Brendan Constantine hosting a Poetry Workshop! "The Art of Getting It Wrong"
2020-12-09 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Red Hen Author Brendan Constantine, author of three works with the press is hosting a poetry workshop. This event starts December 9th, and takes place over the next few weeks in January 2021!

Los Angeles poet Brendan Constantine presents a special four-week poetry intensive for Beyond Baroque.

About this Event

In this unusual class, participants will liberate their strongest poetry by embracing its opposite. “Sometimes, in order to strike gold,” he says, “you must dig through lots of mud. You must accept that no matter how skilled and experienced you may be, your worst writing always lies ahead of you.” In addition to creating new poems, students will discuss and explore the problems of saying the ‘unsayable.’ “We [poets] will never describe consciousness, but we might be able to share it. And any job worth doing, is worth doing badly.”
Brendan Constantine is the author of four books of poetry. His work appears in many of the nation’s literary standards including Poetry, Best American Poetry, Poem A Day, Prairie Schooner, and Tin House. His most recent collections are ‘Dementia, My Darling’ (2016 Red Hen Press) and ‘Bouncy Bounce’ (2018) a chapbook from Blue Horse Press. He has received support and commissions from the Getty Museum, James Irvine Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A popular performer, Brendan has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, also appearing on NPR’s All Things Considered, TED ED, numerous podcasts, and YouTube. He currently teaches at the Windward School.

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Chelsea Catherine @ Virtual Reading w/ Bear Pond Books!
2020-12-10 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
https://www.bearpondbooks.com/event/chelsea-catherine-thomas-christopher-greene

Bear Pond Books and the Kellogg-Hubbard Library present authors Chelsea Catherine & Thomas Christopher Greene in conversation about Catherine’s debut LGBTQ novel, Summer of the Cicadas (Red Hen, 2020). With a reading and Q&A. Free and open to the public via Zoom.
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“Chelsea Catherine is a bright, raw, original new voice in American fiction. Her prose is electric. And Summer of Cicadas was a novel I couldn’t put down.”—Thomas Christopher Greene, author of The Perfect Liar
About the Authors:
Chelsea Catherine is a native (Barre) Vermonter living in St. Petersburg, Florida. She is an LGBTQ writer of fiction and nonfiction. Most recently, she won the Mary C Mohr nonfiction award through the Southern Indiana Review and her book, “Summer of the Cicadas,” won the Quill Prose Award through Red Hen Press, which was published in August of 2020. You can find her at chelseacatherinewriter.com.
Thomas Christopher Greene is the author of six novels: The Perfect Liar, Mirror Lake, I’ll Never Be Long Gone, Envious Moon, The Headmaster’s Wife, and If I Forget You. His fiction has been translated into 13 languages. In 2008, Tom founded Vermont College of Fine Arts, a top graduate fine arts college, making him the youngest college president in the country at the time. He lives and works in Vermont.

Event date:

Thursday, December 10, 2020 – 7:00pm (EST), 4:00pm (PT)

Event address:

ZOOM

United States

Vroman's Live - Alice Quinn, Carol Muske Dukes, Tommy Orange, Rex Wilder, & Ron Koertge present Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic
2020-12-11 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
“This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Please register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot.
EVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/g63q07gb
In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.
As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. In these pages, we find poets grieving for relatives they are separated from or recovering from illness themselves, attending to suddenly complicated household tasks or turning to literature for strength, considering the bravery of medical workers or working their own shifts at the hospital, and, as the Black Lives Matter movement has swept the globe, reflecting on the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement. From fierce and resilient to wistful, darkly humorous, and emblematically reverent about the earth and the vulnerability of human beings in frightening times, the poems in this collection find the words to describe what can feel unspeakably difficult and strange, providing wisdom, companionship, and depths of feeling that enliven our spirits. (Knopf Publishing Group) ”
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Bushwick x Hugo House | Dec 12 w/ Kristen Millares Young's SUBDUCTION
2020-12-12 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Dec 12, 2020
Seattle, this one’s for you
In a collaboration long overdue, three Hugo House authors will provide literary inspiration for three Bushwick Book Club Seattle musicians each—9 one-of-a-kind songs, one amazing night to remind you of the Emerald City’s endless magic.
Presenting original music inspired by:
Anastacia-Reneé’s (v.) — Adra Boo, Okanomodé, and Shaudi Bianca Vahdat
Amber Flame’s Ordinary Cruelty — JusMoni, Joe Seamons & Briar, and Shaina Shephard
Kristen Millares Young’s Subduction — Adé A Cônnére, Julia Massey, and Nottingham/Wicks

In lieu of a ticket charge for this show, we hope you will consider a donation, with “advance sales” most welcome.
Saturday, December 12, 2020. 7:30 – 9 p.m. PT
Please consider making a donation to Bushwick for this free event.

Afaa Michael Weaver & Gary Copeland Lilley moderated by Sebastian Matthews
2020-12-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
“Writer to Writer: Conversations on Craft & Featured Readings series pairs writers together to read from their work and to discuss all aspects of being a working writer. These live virtual events are a window into a writer’s life and also provide access to, and a platform for, diverse voices and writing talent across genres. Conversations may touch on craft, literary friendship, publishing, sustaining a writing practice, and more.
Register to reserve your spot here. A private Zoom link will be provided closer to the date.”
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