Percival Everett recieves Corrington Award for Literary Excellence
Date: March 16, 2020
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Elise Paschen on NPR
Date: March 16, 2020
Mitchell Douglas nominated for a Hurston/Wright!
Date: March 16, 2020
Mitchell Douglas, author of Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem, has been nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, in the Poetry category. Congratulations Mitchell! More info here.
Camille Dungy on Verse Daily and PSA
Date: March 16, 2020
The Poetry Society of America has a great interview with Camille Dungy about that nebulously national literature, American Poetry. Read the full thing here. Her poem “Sunday Morning,” from her new […]
Allow Us to Introduce You to Louise Wareham Leonard’s 52 MEN!”
Date: March 16, 2020
Louise Wareham Leonard’s, 52 Men, is an intense “micro-novel” that captures the emotional and physical possibilities of encounters between 52 men and one woman in the Manhattan of the late twentieth […]
Amy Uyematsu Writes for Huffington Post
Date: March 16, 2020
Author Amy Uyematsu wrote a post for Huffington Post about growing up in a time where there weren't many other Asian-American poets, and how that has had a large impact […]
Red Hen author Verónica Reyes featured in The Advocate
Date: March 16, 2020
Red Hen author, Verónica Reyes, is featured in The Advocate for her recent Lambda Award nomination. The Lambda Award is sponsored by The Lambda Literary Foundation that "nurtures, celebrates, and […]
Congrats to Eloise!
Date: March 16, 2020
“The Nightlife” shortlisted for the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Awards!
Date: March 16, 2020
THE NIGHTLIFE by Red Hen Author Elise Paschen has been
Suck on the Marrow wins an American Book Award!
Date: March 16, 2020
Camille Dungy’s Suck on the Marrow has won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation! For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the sixth significant honor this book […]
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Interview with Ellen Meeropol
Date: February 8, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011Ellen MeeropolEllen Meeropol holds an MFA in creative writing from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. Her stories have appeared in The Drum, Bridges, […]
From Red Room: Fiction from Emotional Fact: HOUSE ARREST””
Date: February 8, 2011
Fiction from Emotional Fact: HOUSE ARRESTby Randy Susan MeyersFebruary 6, 2011, 11:48 amHOUSE ARREST by Ellen MeeropolA parent’s tragedy will always influence the life of their children—often to an overwhelming […]
From New West: Orlando White Explores Navajo Identity Through Language in Innovative “Bone Light”
Date: February 3, 2011
Orlando White Explores Navajo Identity Through Language in Innovative “Bone Light”The first book of poetry by Orlando White offers unexpected innovations.By Alex Young, Guest Writer, 1-28-11 Bone Lightby Orlando WhiteRed […]
From The Republican: Bitten by the writing bug””
Date: February 3, 2011
Bitten by the writing bugSunday, January 30, 2011By RITA MARKSThis week's release of Ellen Meeropol's debut novel, "House Arrest," marks a major milestone in her career as a writer. Most […]
A Review to Die For!
Date: January 24, 2011
Ron Slate reviews New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected William Matthews, edited by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly!"The poem features the Horatian qualities one associates with Matthews…"The rest of Slate's […]
Janice Eidus is a Midwest Success in 2011
Date: January 12, 2011
Janice Eidus' The Last Jewish Virgin has a place on the Midwest Book Review's "Small Press Review" fiction shelf for January 2011!"Vampires are a staple of literature, but Janice Eidus […]
Amy Lemmon Receives Centrum Praise
Date: January 5, 2011
Amy Lennon's collection of poetry, "Saint Nobody", received an in-depth review from the craft-focused community of Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington!"Poet Amy Lemmon, whose just-released collection Saint Nobody is now […]
Kurt Brown Lit Up 2010
Date: January 5, 2011
Rigoberto Gonzalez of The National Booki Critics Circle named Kurt Brown's collection of poems, No Other Paradise, as a 2010 Small Press Highlight!"If other poets examine the mysteries of our […]
Adventure to Momo-Jima
Date: January 5, 2011
Scott Brown received a wonderful review in the 2010 Hawaii Edition Review for his "brilliant political farce", Far Afield."Far Afield is an enormously entertaining novel that exposes our media’s preoccupation […]
Summer Brenner lassoed into the 2010 Local Book Roundup
Date: January 5, 2011
"As we near the end of this year in which America went broke, got high, and watched J.D. Salinger (and Gary Coleman) die, let's celebrate the East Bay's literary contributions […]