Date: December 10, 2024
Huge thanks to the editors at Brittle Paper for inclusion in this incredible list!
Date: December 5, 2024
Red Hen Press is thrilled to welcome nine new members to our Executive Board, whose diverse range of expertise in marketing, branding, and governance will help advance the core values […]
Date: December 3, 2024
Date: December 3, 2024
THE FIRST BOOK: HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The Author: Esinam Bediako | Instagram: @esi_the_lurker The Book: Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024) The Elevator Pitch: Can a 24-year-old Ghanaian American woman outrun a breakup, […]
Date: November 26, 2024
Esinam Bediako is remarkably self-assured in this debut novel; it’s the kind of funny, compassionate book you want your friends to read so you can talk about it with someone […]
Date: November 19, 2024
Didi Jackson: On Love Stories, Migraines, Being Ever-Present on the Page, and Her Poetry Collection, ‘My Infinity’ Nov 19 Written By Brittany Ackerman Four months postpartum, I stood inside the home […]
Date: November 19, 2024
“In the beautifully rendered book of poems, My Infinity by Didi Jackson, the speaker’s voice is meditative, pensive, and warm. Tonally, these poems represent that time of day which is […]
Date: November 19, 2024
Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile. Leavened with humor and […]
Date: November 19, 2024
For our fifth episode of S3 of There She Goes, we’re proud to partner with VONA Traveling While BIPOC, the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. Adriana is […]
Date: November 14, 2024
When Esinam Bediako submitted the manuscript for her debut novel, “Blood on the Brain,” for consideration for the Ann Petry Award, she didn’t think she’d be in the running for the […]
Date: May 15, 2023
This collection immediately thrusts us into scenes of relative comfort and privilege that are all too often interrupted by the violent horrors plaguing this current time. Mind you, the terms […]
Date: May 11, 2023
Over the past year, Latina/o/x poets spanning vast aesthetics, experiences, and geographies have dazzled me with collections that reveal the complexity and beauty of our communities in all their irreducible […]
Date: May 8, 2023
How can we take refuge amid the pains of this world? In this collection, Pamela Uschuk, winner of an American Book Award in 2010, faces the realities of recent social […]
Date: May 1, 2023
The Skin of Meaning by Keith Flynn is an interesting mixture of contemporary reactions to issues that affect us in the twenty-first century. Keith presents one hundred and eighty-one pages of poetry divided […]
Date: May 1, 2023
Aqueous is a debut novel set in a world where life on land is dangerous and harsh. To save humanity, an underwater paradise is built in the ocean.
Date: April 25, 2023
David Mas Masumoto has a reputation as a remarkable writer. His previous work includes Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm (1996), Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil (1998), and Four […]
Date: April 25, 2023
I heard Brenda Cárdenas read from her new collection, Trace, at The Hungry Brain in Chicago: an incantation, a call to action. By the time I got to the book […]
Date: April 25, 2023
Between grief and relief, Francesca Bell’s poems don’t pause, they flow – like a warm bath, and someone quietly bringing a candle; then a cold shower, and the body awakened […]
Date: April 24, 2023
A long-overdue tale recounted by way of an erstwhile member’s memoir.
Date: April 18, 2023
Climate disasters amplified by greed have rendered Earth’s surface uninhabitable and space travel impossible; now just three deep-ocean merstations stand between humankind and extinction. Desperate to ensure her last child’s […]
