Feminist Wednesday: Meet Sarah Cannon
Date: September 27, 2018
Feminist Wednesday features Sarah Cannon! Meet Sarah Cannon as she talks about writing, feminism, burnout, and giving advices to budding writers. Full interview
News & Reviews
News:
Poet Laureate’s Tribute to South Pasadena
Date: September 26, 2018
Ron Koertge pens a lovely poem to the city of South Pasadena! Read the poem, "Ode to South Pasadena"
Maurya Simon goes to Rome for a residency!
Date: July 19, 2018
Maurya Simon just accepted a Visiting Artists Residency at the American Academy in Rome! This month-long November residency serves as a great opportunity for Maurya and her writing. Congrats Maurya!
Archila featured on Poets.org’s Poem-A-Day series
Date: July 19, 2018
Congrats to our incredible poet and accomplished author William Archila for his feature on The Academy of American Poets. He was highlighted on their website's Poem-a-Day series! Read "Spirits"
‘Negative Space’ Short Film Nominated for Oscar
Date: June 23, 2018
The animated short film ‘Negative Space,’ based on Ron Koertge’s poem of the same name, which was published by Red Hen Press, was just nominated for Best Animated Short Film […]
Kim Stafford named Poet Laureate of Oregon!
Date: May 17, 2018
Amy Wang at The Oregonian/OregonLive writes: Oregon's new poet laureate, announced Tuesday, is Kim Stafford, who follows in the footsteps of his late father, William Stafford, in the position. Kim […]
Steve Almond interview with PopMatters
Date: April 6, 2018
Megan Volpert, of PopMatters Books, asks great questions from Steve Almond on Bad Stories! Talking Trump, late night TV shows, Moby Dick, sports, and more! Read the full piece
Steve Almond featured on Miami New Times
Date: March 22, 2018
Steve Almond speaks with Rebecca McBane of Miami New Times on his upcoming book, Bad Stories, and his upcoming conversation with Mitchell Kaplan at Books & Books. Read the article
This is us: Steve Almond’s “Bad Stories”
Date: March 21, 2018
Jack Cline of South Florida Sun Sentinel interviews Steve Almond on his upcoming new book, Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country! Read the full interview here!
This is us: Steve Almond’s “Bad Stories”
Date: March 21, 2018
Jack Cline of South Florida Sun Sentinel interviews Steve Almond on his upcoming new book, Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country! Read the full interview here! […]
Reviews:
Midwest Book Review: Tea by the Sea
Date: September 21, 2020
A deftly crafted and entertaining work of impressive literary nuance, “Tea by the Sea” by Donna Hemans is an extraordinary, original, and inherently fascinating novel that is especially and unreservedly […]
On Suitor by Joshua Rivkin
Date: September 21, 2020
In the first of two envois that appear in Joshua Rivkin’s Suitor, a speaker defines the word that gives the collection its title: Suitor, from the Latin secutor,to follow. I can’tcatch them, or […]
Four Questions to Help Demystify Your Relationship With Money
Date: September 14, 2020
Jennifer Risher took a job in campus recruiting at Microsoft in 1991. She was 25 and given stock options worth several hundred thousand dollars. While working there, she met her […]
Publisher’s Weekly: Summer of the Cicadas
Date: September 10, 2020
Catherine wraps a fast-paced, stirring narrative about loss and unrequited love into a story about an unusually aggressive 17-year cicada swarm and the terror it brings to the residents of […]
Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by Brevity’s Non-Fiction Blog
Date: September 10, 2020
Rebecca McClanahan’s In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays is an exploration of what it means to live in a place, and, in fact, what it means to live […]
Kirkus Reviews: Animal Wife
Date: September 10, 2020
Girls and women caught between myth and the modern world. Selected by Ann Hood as the winner of the Red Hen Fiction Award, Ehrlich’s debut collection contains 15 stories, some […]
Kirkus Reviews: Unseen City
Date: September 9, 2020
A ghost story that focuses not on a single spirit but on an entire city whose layered history haunts its occupants. “Meg had the unsettling sense that she was seeing […]
Foreword Reviews: Unseen City by Amy Shearn
Date: September 9, 2020
Amy Shearn’s modern fable Unseen City is anchored by smart, sly humor. It delves into the layered social, psychological, and historical architecture of New York City, a place that’s paved over the […]
Under Nushagak Bluff and the shadow of pandemic in Alaska literature: Review of Mia C. Heavener’s debut novel
Date: September 3, 2020
Seagulls swoop and dive, crying in the salty air. The waves of Nushagak Bay crash on sandbars and rocky shores. Machines rattle the warehouses on the cannery side of the […]
Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir
Date: August 31, 2020
Reading Deborah Lott’s memoir of her dysfunctional upbringing feels like the literary equivalent of rubbernecking: her childhood was a series of trainwrecks, but somehow you can’t stop turning around to watch. […]