Molly Fisk’s WALKING WHEEL listed in Library Journal’s Prepub Alert Preview!
Date: February 4, 2026
Molly Fisk’s WALKING WHEEL revisits struggling newlyweds traveling from Oregon to California in 1875.
News & Reviews
News:
Listen to Andrew Lam on The Listen & Be Heard Hour podcast!
Date: February 4, 2026
Andrew Lam reads Grandma’s Tales, from Watermark, and talks with Martha about his life now after journalism.
Lara Ehrlich’s BIND ME TIGHTER STILL is Fiction Pick of the Week from Sydney Morning Herald
Date: February 3, 2026
In The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen told a gruesome tale of a mermaid who mutilates herself to take to land. Lara Ehrlich gives a fascinating feminist echo to that […]
Listen to Laing Rikkers on the podcast Forgive Yourself!
Date: January 29, 2026
Laing Rikkers appeared on the podcast Forgive Yourself, where she discusses her book Morning Leaves, with the second edition coming out next spring. The host of the podcast, Brenda Reiss, […]
Kristen Millares Young’s DESIRE LINES featured in People Magazine
Date: January 20, 2026
Kristen Millares Young will take readers along on her journey of discovery as she publishes her debut memoir this year. PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of the acclaimed novelist, […]
April Ossmann’s essay on her book WE featured on Together Across Differences’ Substack
Date: January 13, 2026
We: A collection of poetry reflecting coming together across differences We love the new friends and colleagues we are meeting on the journey of our book, Beyond the Politics of Contempt. […]
April Ossmann author of WE featured on Brattleboro Community Television
Date: January 13, 2026
Brattleboro Indivisible hosts What Does Democracy Look Like? at the Latchis Theater. The event celebrates democracy through art, music, poetry and discussion. On exhibit will be work by local artists […]
Ms. Magazine features DREAMS IN WHICH I’M ALMOST HUMAN by Hannah Soyer, GIVEN AWAY by Nahid Rachlin, and DESIRE LINES by Kristen Millares Young in their list of most anticipated feminist books of 2026
Date: January 13, 2026
The Feminist Know-It-All: You know her. You can’t stand her. Good thing she’s not here! Instead, this column by gender and women’s studies librarian Karla Strand will amplify stories of […]
Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD featured in Book Riot
Date: January 6, 2026
I don’t know what I expected to find when I went to check out the Tournament of Books shortlist, but I was delighted by the selection of books. We’ve got […]
CounterPunch features Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD in their My Favorites of 2025 Books
Date: January 6, 2026
I’m not a big fan of these “best of” lists (I didn’t watch, listen or read everything out there), but of all the new(ish) arts entertainment (or edutainment, as KRS-One would […]
Reviews:
Marivi Soliven’s TAXI DANCER reviewed by Titchie Carandang of Positively Filipino!
Date: October 19, 2026
Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we […]
Marivi Soliven’s TAXI DANCER reviewed by Christopher Connor of A Few More Words!
Date: October 19, 2026
A delightful aspect of historical fiction is the way the present gives way to the past, shifting our knowledge of the modern world into what it once was. In Marivi […]
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE reviewed by America Magazine!
Date: October 19, 2026
In 2003, the United States attacked Iraq, ostensibly to rid the country of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The war destabilized the Middle East and resulted in Hussein’s death […]
In The Review Spotlight: Audrey Shipp of Hippocampus Magazine on Desire Lines: A Memoir by Kristen Millares Young
Date: October 15, 2026
In Desire Lines (Red Hen Press; Oct 2026), a memoir-in-essays, Cuban American novelist, journalist, and essayist Kristen Millares Young delivers a series of confessions, one being how her life story […]
Positively Filipino publishes an intense review of Marivi Soliven’s Taxi Dancer!
Date: October 7, 2026
Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we […]
Laura Kasischke’s THE LIFEGUARD reviewed by Rain Taxi!
Date: October 1, 2026
Florencia Ramirez’s THE KITCHEN ACTIVIST reviewed by Publishers Weekly!
Date: October 1, 2026
In this hands-on manifesto, Ramirez, host of The Kitchen Activist podcast and author of Eat Less Water, encourages readers to prepare meals in ways that lower food waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Explaining that […]
Brendan Constantine’s THE OPPOSITES GAME reviewed by G Emil Reutter of North of Oxford!
Date: October 1, 2026
The journey into The Opposites Game enters the sometime surreal, sometime witty, sometime irreverent world of Brendan Constantine. All is not joy as the dark lays just under the thinly veiled poems […]
David Mason reviewed by Brian Brodeur of New Verse Review!
Date: September 28, 2026
Mason’s achievements in verse narratives surpass those of other Expansive Poets, spanning multiple subgenres. His best early short-stories in verse are the tetrameter poems “Gusev” and “The Next Place” and […]
Christopher Connor of A Few More Words reviews Jim Tilley’s latest poetry collection, WHEN GODOT ARRIVED
Date: September 15, 2026
The possibilities in form throughout one poetry collection feel unimaginably wide. But consistency of form can reveal the true beauty of language, particularly for readers who are otherwise disinclined toward […]