Date: September 16, 2025
Eunice Hong’s debut novel, Memento Mori, selected by Aimee Liu as a Red Hen Press Fiction Award Winner, follows an unnamed Korean narrator through mythology, memory loss, and numerous personal tragedies. […]
Date: September 9, 2025
When my coworker casually mentioned working as a mermaid at a tiki bar out west, I was flabbergasted and mesmerized. So when I heard about Lara Ehrlich’s Bind Me Tighter Still, […]
Date: September 4, 2025
The Red Hen Press poet, Majid Naficy recently read a few of his works at the Santa Monica Library!
Date: September 2, 2025
Bind Me Tighter Still follows mother and daughter mermaids who flee back to the ocean after the mother gives up her legs to be with her first love. Arriving at a […]
Date: August 26, 2025
The writer brings stories from across the Armenian diaspora to the page. The Burning Heart of the World, by New York-based novelist Nancy Kricorian, is a poignant coming-of-age story set […]
Date: August 26, 2025
The peaches harvested at Masumoto Family Farm in California’s Central Valley are so delicious, they are sought after by world-famous restaurants. But this year’s harvest signals trouble: There are 30% […]
Date: August 12, 2025
This debut novel by a former BU senior editor-writer focuses on Ceto, a siren who tried mermaid life and married life and found both wanting. Now, she runs the Sirenland roadside attraction, […]
Date: July 24, 2025
Huge thanks to Deane Serrano for this wonderful write-up of WITS HQ and the beautiful quotes from Red Hen’s Events Coordinator and WITS HQ organizer Piper Gourley!
Date: July 24, 2025
particular reminders when prayers for the body aren’t enough when dusty purple fruits breathe inthe sunsets & smog of their cityscapes: […]
Date: July 22, 2025
Dark Suite for My Country I. Dark as an overcast night,licorice, ink, ravens, outer space.Let me see the beautyin crows mowing silencelike hundred rusty tractors,or a crowd […]
Date: December 8, 2021
The cover photo shows a young girl smiling as she points a toy gun at the camera. At first glance, the book’s title seems to be American Badass. But the correct name […]
Date: December 2, 2021
Date: November 23, 2021
Just as the James West Space Telescope (the J.W.S.T.) is about to supersede the Hubble Telescope (offering the difference between myopia and 20-20 vision, at least when it comes to […]
Date: November 18, 2021
A fantastic novella of literary merit about a small family living in a cave after the climate apocalypse. Told in language that sings from the point of view of Sky, […]
Date: November 15, 2021
“Wilson has created a panoramic saga of cruelty, injustice, loyalty, and devotion. This is a heartbreaking, loving, moving story told by a sister, daughter, mother, woman who demands and deserves […]
Date: November 15, 2021
Sexual abuse of children by clergy is once more in the news. Last month, a new report estimated that some 330,000 French children were abused by Catholic clergy and other […]
Date: November 15, 2021
“Wilson has created a panoramic saga of cruelty, injustice, loyalty, and devotion. This is a heartbreaking, loving, moving story told by a sister, daughter, mother, woman who demands and deserves […]
Date: November 9, 2021
“As an adoptee, one of the toughest things is the idea of shifting identities,” writes Jan Beatty in “American Bastard: A Memoir.”” “No one is who they say they are: […]
Date: November 2, 2021
Being an elder millennial (see: I refuse to use the term ‘geriatric’), I’ve come to accept that I no longer know any of the cool lingo that the kids these […]
Date: November 2, 2021
Any baby, let alone a bastard baby, is born a mystery, and babies don’t come with directions. But Jan Beatty’s iconoclastic memoir American Bastard does come with directions. Here is […]
