Date: October 8, 2024
Favorite non-reading activity? Besides writing, I like watching and playing soccer. It’s a popular game in my home country of Togo (West Africa), and I’ve been playing it since I […]
Date: October 8, 2024
In this interview, Elom discusses how his experiences as an immigrant helped inspire his new political thriller, Blindspot in America, what he learned in the process of publishing the novel, and […]
Date: October 8, 2024
Today, we are welcoming author Elom Akoto to the blog. First, tell our readers a bit about yourself. Where you’re from, where you live? Is writing your full-time job? I’m […]
Date: October 1, 2024
Readers often talk about liking a novel (or not) because they connected to the protagonist (or didn’t). Reasons, sometimes inexplicable, for connecting—or not—vary from one reader to the next. That […]
Date: September 23, 2024
Black Writer On How To Write An Alluring Villain and a Dynamic Black, Female Hero Aliah Wright details how to get started writing a book and creating twin serial killers […]
Date: September 23, 2024
The following is from Esinam Bediako’s Blood on the Brain. Bediako is a Ghanaian American writer from Detroit. She holds a BA in English from Columbia University, an MFA in Fiction […]
Date: September 19, 2024
OSU-Cascades is hosting a Wednesday, Sept. 25 reading and book-signing event featuring Kristen Millares Young, an award-winning author, journalist and essayist whose latest novel, Subduction, is contemporary story set in […]
Date: September 19, 2024
Letters Ruby-Throated, sheundaunted, taps the porch screen,types tiny missives. ~~~
Date: September 12, 2024
Part 2: Advice on Revision and the Pleasure of Burning Manuscripts with Gaylord Brewer [by Nin Andrews] In my last post, I talked about Zoom classes, about advice (or lack […]
Date: September 12, 2024
E.P. Tuazon’s forthcoming collection of Filipino-American short stories, A Professional Lola (Red Hen Press, 2024), offers a fresh take on identity and explores what it means to be an ever-evolving character in […]
Date: September 8, 2021
Everything about Jane of Battery Park is unexpected, precarious, paranoid, and quirky. Viner’s dialogue is at once banal, punchy, and self-aware, with as many laugh-out-loud moments as kick-in-the-gut ones.
Date: September 7, 2021
Decode the savagery of silence, the language of separation and guilt, also deceive that of the enemy. A rather classic novel in its form, in its informed reconstruction of a little-known […]
Date: September 7, 2021
In her third book of poetry, Fairbanksan Nicole Stellon O’Donnell firmly establishes herself as both a remarkable artist and a commentator on the role of poet.
Date: August 26, 2021
A dynamic collection of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by North American Muslims. From the Introduction: “The goal with this anthology is to represent that full range of contemporary expressions […]
Date: August 24, 2021
Havana breathes, swears and cries in Dariel Suárez’s first novel, The Playwright’s House (Red Hen Press, 2021). With a plot that blends family stories and national history, this is a beautifully layered […]
Date: August 24, 2021
This July, Cuba erupted into its widest protests in a generation. News reports credit food and medicine shortages and summer power outages as the catalysts for the demonstrations which have […]
Date: August 23, 2021
In her inviting third poetry collection, Everything Never Comes Your Way, Nicole Stellon O’Donnell (You Are No Longer in Trouble) muses on the struggles and transcendence of “family-tethered Alaska life.” The […]
Date: August 19, 2021
A chance encounter changes the trajectory of two lives in Jaye Viner’s novel Jane of Battery Park. Eight years ago, Jane and Daniel met and connected in Battery Park. She saw […]
Date: August 11, 2021
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Date: July 21, 2021
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