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: October 3, 2018
Weather Woman is best read as a story about a twenty-something who can’t make lemonade out of life’s lemons. Life is often a journey from crisis to crisis, and our […]
Date: October 2, 2018
"…Jesiolowski has crafted a book of movement and landscape, in which individuals quietly but significantly consider what it is to move and transform from place to place" Thanks, Asterix Journal! […]
Date: October 2, 2018
Oakland Public Library has complied 10 ficiton books that everyone should read this October! Read the full article here
Date: September 27, 2018
Peggy Shumaker was the Alaska State Writer Laureate for 2010-2012 and the founding editor of Boreal Books, publishers of fine art and literature from Alaska. Cairn, her recently published collection, […]
Date: September 26, 2018
Gabriel Jesiolowski articulates the vacancy within the story of grief in As Burning Leaves, a book-length poem in forty-seven segments. Read the full review
Date: September 12, 2018
The lit Pub did a review on Dean Kostos's Poetry style from his various poetry books. It can be argued that all poetry is a negotiation between two worlds. An […]
Date: September 11, 2018
Allison Joseph's, Confessions of Barefaced Woman was reviewed by Robert Sheldon from MockingHeart Review. Allison Joseph?s new collection Confessions of a Barefaced Woman is a forthright and unabashed examination of […]
Date: September 11, 2018
Bigfoots in Paradise, by Doug Lawson, was reviewed by Booklist Online. Booklist Online reviews more that 180,000 books by trusted experts at the American Library Association. Leah Strauss from Booklist […]
Date: September 5, 2018
The Perpetual Motion Machine was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews. The book is a memoir that tells the story of Brittany Ackerma, the author, and how she would gradually find her […]
Date: September 4, 2018
David Mason must feel amazing that American Life in Poetry has choosen his poem The Mud Room. It brings us joy that he was mentioned! Check it out here
