Date: May 16, 2014
Congratulations to Red Hen author Peggy Shumaker for winning the Rasmuson Foundation's top honor, The Distinguished Artist Fellowship! One of the Rasmuson Foundation's purposes is to provide artists the resources […]
Date: May 14, 2014
Congratulations to John Van Kirk! His debut novel, Song for Chance, has placed in the 2014 Eric Hoffer Award. Van Kirk's book received an Honorable Mention in the General Fiction […]
Date: May 7, 2014
Congratulations to Andrew Lam! His book Birds of Paradise Lost is on the shortlist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Lam's book placed in the Fiction category shortlist. […]
Date: April 18, 2014
David Mason's verse novel Ludlow is featured in the Washington Post to commemorate the 100th year anniversary of a massacre that led to the murder of two dozen striking coal […]
Date: April 3, 2014
Brynn Saito's The Palace of Contemplating Departure has been nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry as one of the best works by a Nor Cal author. The […]
Date: April 3, 2014
Andrew Lam's debut novel Birds of Paradise Lost is a finalist in the 83rd Annual California Book Awards. His book is one of two finalists in the First Fiction category. […]
Date: April 2, 2014
Veronica Reyes sat down with El Paseo Times and gave some insight into her artisitc process and her new book of poetry. "'Poetry just comes out of you, those moments […]
Date: April 2, 2014
Ms. Magazine is celebrating National Poetry Month by announcing and presenting five different feminist unpublished poems. The first is Veronica Reyes's "The Hawk." You can read Ms. Blog's feature and […]
Date: April 2, 2014
Artsmith announced Peggy Shumaker as their Artist of the Year! This honor is given to an artist who "exemplifies mastery in her or his field and generosity to others." Congratulations […]
Date: March 5, 2014
Washington Independent Review of Books celebrates Red Hen's 20th anniversary with a feature: "Since its creation two decades ago, the press' dual focus on building a literary niche and forging […]
Date: September 16, 2024
“Didi Jackson’s second collection of poems, My Infinity, is a quiet, pensive reckoning with life and death by a speaker uniquely suited to discuss such enigmatic subjects.”
Date: September 10, 2024
In Didi Jackson’s My Infinity, the “Northern sky stands so straight, / it uses the largest pines for crutches;” “The moon’s marias emerge / like age spots, monochromatic and ashy;” and […]
Date: September 9, 2024
“A cogent, skeptical collection that examines those whose stories are erased or preserved.”
Date: September 3, 2024
Eunice Hong’s exquisite debut Memento Mori won the 2021 Red Hen Press Fiction Award, chosen by judge Aimee Liu. Hong’s simple, well-worn opening line, “Once upon a time,” belies an intricate narrative […]
Date: August 28, 2024
“VERDICT For enthusiasts of Percival’s writing”
Date: August 26, 2024
“Our narrator’s story is painful and heart-breaking, a story of all we wish we could forget, a story of continuing to live even when you feel you don’t deserve it.”
Date: August 26, 2024
Thanks to Ryan Coleman, who wrote “Your favorite writer’s writer, Percival Everett, is now everyone’s fave thanks to American Fiction, the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of his book Erasure. His latest, a lyrical book of […]
Date: August 21, 2024
Huge thanks to Larry Wilson for this wonderful coverage!
Date: August 21, 2024
“Smartly covers a few weeks of upheaval that push its heroine closer to adulthood.”
Date: August 12, 2024
Poetry is hard to define even for those devoted to reading, writing, and studying it. “It is difficult,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote, “to get the news from poems,” but […]
