Prairie Schooner features an essay of Alison Hawthorne Deming, the author of BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER
Date: January 29, 2025
Prairie Schooner features Alison Hawthorne Deming’s essay “The Eye of Water” in its recent issue.
News & Reviews
News:
Electric Literature reveals the cover of BIND ME TIGHTER STILL by Lara Ehrlich
Date: January 29, 2025
Electric Literature reveals the cover of Bind Me Tighter Still by Lara Ehrlich, which will be published by Red Hen Press in September, 2025. The design celebrates otherworldly beauty and […]
Omaha Magazine features Elom K. Akoto, author of BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA
Date: January 28, 2025
Omaha Magazine features an interview with Elom K. Akoto, shearing his journey from Togo to the U.S., his experiences as an immigrant, and the inspiration behind his debut novel, which […]
Shelf Awareness interviews Kim Dower, author of WHAT SHE WANTS
Date: January 28, 2025
Shelf Awareness interviewed Kim Dower to discuss her career highlights, share some intriguing gossip, explore what has sustained her over the years, and learn how she has merged her roles […]
Mostly Banter podcast features Jenny Factor, author of WANT, THE LAKE
Date: January 21, 2025
Jenny Factor, acclaimed poet and Beverly Hills native, shares her journey from a unique childhood to Harvard and beyond. In this compelling conversation, she reflects on her lifelong passion for […]
Poetry.LA features Kim Dower, author of WHAT SHE WANTS
Date: January 21, 2025
In this episode of SoCal Poets in Conversation, Elena Karina Byrne and Kim Dower, who have very different poetic styles, reflect on the themes they have in common, including “longing,” […]
Soapberry Review reviews E.P. Tuazon’s A PROFESSIONAL LOLA as one of the Best Asian American Books of 2024
Date: January 21, 2025
“In A Professional Lola, a joyful, weird, and eclectic collection of short stories from Grace Paley award winner E.P. Tuazon, there is an intimacy that makes you, the reader, feel […]
BLOOD ON THE BRAIN by Esinam Bediako and BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA by Elom K. Akoto featured in Brittle Paper’s list of 100 Notable African Books of 2024!
Date: December 10, 2024
Huge thanks to the editors at Brittle Paper for inclusion in this incredible list!
Red Hen Press Welcomes Nine New Board Members
Date: December 5, 2024
Red Hen Press is thrilled to welcome nine new members to our Executive Board, whose diverse range of expertise in marketing, branding, and governance will help advance the core values […]
@belletrist features Esinam Bediako, author of BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: December 3, 2024
Reviews:
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Five South!
Date: April 19, 2022
John Weir’s linked stories explore sexuality and separation through platonic love, activism, art, and death — in a time when gender was confined to “girl, boy, or faggot” and AIDS […]
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: April 4, 2022
Elaborate scams and workplace murders abound in this bleakly comic novel.
Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: April 4, 2022
A socially awkward tech worker grapples with his impending divorce, his relationship with his young son, and his struggle to create human connections in a tech-driven world.
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: March 17, 2022
Weir’s linked collection of bittersweet, often witty stories elucidates almost 50 years in the life of a gay White man in the U.S., from enduring school taunts in 1970s New […]
FROM THE CAVES reviewed in The Rupture!
Date: March 1, 2022
The cover art of Thea Prieto’s debut novella coupled with its title, From the Caves, invited this reviewer immediately to consider Plato’s famed Allegory of the Cave. Plato’s fire, however, […]
Frank Soos’ THE GETTING PLACE reviewed in Anchorage Daily News!
Date: February 22, 2022
Readers and writers in Alaska and beyond are grieving the loss of Frank Soos, a beloved emeritus professor from the University of Alaska and Alaska’s Writer Laureate from 2014-16, who […]
Sadie Hoagland’s STRANGE CHILDREN reviewed in the Harvard Review Online!
Date: February 15, 2022
In Sadie Hoagland’s debut novel, Strange Children, eight young narrators struggle to navigate two very different worlds. Some are exiled to the lurid, modern American city, with its microwave dinners, senseless […]
AMERICAN BASTARD by Jan Beatty reviewed in International Swans!
Date: February 3, 2022
We are taught that a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. We are taught that a girl who ventures on a quest to find her lost parents […]
DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES by Beth Gilstrap reviewed in Necessary Fiction!
Date: February 1, 2022
Deadheading, the practice of pruning dead flower heads in order to preserve the plant, provides Beth Gilstrap with a rich metaphor around which to organize her new story collection. The […]
QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE Reviewed for Delmarva Review!
Date: January 24, 2022
DIANE THIEL’S WORK has always asked fundamental and human questions. Janet Holmes, reviewing Thiel’s first book, Echolocations, notes that Thiel’s work deals with “silences, evasions, loss, and omissions.” This third […]