Red Hen Press Announces 2008 Award Winners
Date: May 28, 2009
News & Reviews
News:
Nickole Brown Wins NEA Fellowship
Date: December 8, 2008
Nickole Brown, author of Sister (Red Hen Press, 2007), was awarded a $25,000 NEA Fellowship for 2009. For more information, please see:
Maurya Simon profiled in Press-Enterprise
Date: December 2, 2008
UCR poet gets exposure on Garrison Keillor program For the full article, go here:
Amy Lemmon is Guest Blogger at the Best American Poetry Blog
Date: September 7, 2008
The Islands Project wins 2008 GCLS
Date: August 1, 2008
Reviews:
North American Review Raves about Khanh Ha’s AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER
Date: May 28, 2026
The past creeps in and settles like a chill mist upon the reader while experiencing Khanh Ha’s The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester. Yet a sharp little ringing, a tiny bell, […]
Molly Fisk’s WALKING WHEEL Received a Kirkus Review!
Date: May 21, 2026
Fisk’s novel in verse offers a pastoral meditation on American frontier life that explores domesticity, self-discovery, and nature. Newlyweds and aspiring homesteaders Phoebe and Miles Imlay travel for 23 days […]
Elise Paschen’s BLOOD WOLF MOON Reviewed by Red Inc. Lit Mag!
Date: May 14, 2026
Elise Paschen’s sixth book of poetry, Blood Wolf Moon, weaves together heritage, language and personal narrative into a deeply moving, thoughtful collection of poems. “I was/ born in the month […]
William Archila’s CANICULA / DOG DAYS reviewed in West Trade Review!
Date: May 5, 2026
William Archila’s first two collections The Art of Exile (Bilingual Review Press, 2009) and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology (Red Hen Press, 2015), each, in their own way, translate the U.S. immigrant experience through […]
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE reviewed by A Few More Words!
Date: April 28, 2026
As we continue to live through a 24-hour news cycle that moves at breakneck speed from one international conflict to the next, the Iraq War can feel like a distant […]
Khanh Ha’s THE AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER was awarded the five-starred Golden Quill Read from BookViral Reviews!
Date: April 15, 2026
Khanh Ha’s The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester is not a novel that seeks to comfort its reader. Instead, it draws you into a world stripped of illusion, where survival […]
Molly Fisk receives first review of WALKING WHEEL from West Trade Review!
Date: April 15, 2026
Molly Fisk takes up the challenge with, Walking Wheel, a narrative suite from the decorated California poet which functions as a novel-in-verse. Set in the frontier country of the California-Oregon […]
A Few More Words reviews Amy Pence’s latest novel, YELLOW!
Date: April 14, 2026
At the beginning of Amy Pence’s debut novel, Yellow (Red Hen Press; 232 pages), 12-year-old Eliza makes a strikingly topical observation about the Watergate scandal blowing up in the summer […]
Kill Dick by Luke Goebel Gets a Raving Review from The Oregonian!
Date: April 7, 2026
Luke Goebel’s novel “Kill Dick” is both playful and grotesque. The story revolves around a series of brutal murders in Los Angeles motel rooms, the bodies desecrated, with nipples glued to eyelids, […]
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Art in America!
Date: April 6, 2026
Ding dong, now Dick is dead. Imagine a novel written in the style of Vice magazine. That’s Kill Dick: every sentence strains to shock with its edginess or searing, cooler-than-you cultural critique. It […]