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 12, 2024
Ep. 66: That Time My Lola Convinced Mormons To Do Her Chores Special guest E.P. Tuazon joins us to talk about that time their lola convinced Mormons to do her […]
Date: January 4, 2021
“But the one thing I know for sure, this is the one life you have and you have to make it work.” Some novels make the meat and bones of […]
Date: January 4, 2021
Seasons of the pandemic and some books that bore witness (2020 Small Press Roundup, Part I) by Rebecca Stoddard Sometime back in the beginning of November, my computer crashed and […]
Date: January 4, 2021
5 stars I wasn’t sure what to expect with this collection of short stories and I don’t read them often so I was pleasantly surprised to find that once I […]
Date: December 16, 2020
The lyric essay form, reliant on gaps and fragmentation, beautifully aligns with Koets’ own experience of compression and expansion, as her narrator moves from a closeted existence to one of […]
Date: December 14, 2020
Author/Editor/Poet Rob Mclennan in his blog, reviews Danielle Vogel’s collection THE WAY A LINE HALLUCINATES ITS OWN LINEARITY. The author of Between Grammars (Noemi Press, 2015) and Edges & Fray (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) […]
Date: December 10, 2020
We are all, in this pandemic, a living elegy; there are loves, possibilities, selves, ways of life that are dead, a mobile mortality poets have always known and used their […]
Date: December 2, 2020
It’s difficult for me to find comparisons to these poems. There are qualities that bring to mind Milosz’s humble prophesies or the earthy divinities of Robert Bly. Some of Brewer’s […]
Date: November 30, 2020
Ludvigson’s poems are quiet and linguistically unadorned, a testament to the starkness of bereavement. Despite the simplicity of her language, Ludvigson dedicates many of her poems to the careful description […]
Date: November 30, 2020
Maurya Simon’s The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems 1980-2016 (Red Hen Press 2018, 218 pages) represents a life of questioning and perception, whether the scene is a backyard or a street in […]
Date: November 18, 2020
Reading Erin Coughlin Hollowell’s Every Atom, a book of poems about her aging mother, reminds me of my grandmother’s history. Like Gracie, Hollowell was her mother’s youngest, born when her […]
