Molly McCloy, author of NINE GRUDGES, interviewed by Robert Pela for Phoenix Magazine “Grudge Match”
Date: September 17, 2026
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News:
Molly McCloy, author of NINE GRUDGES, interviewed by CQ Quintana for Bomb Magazine
Date: September 17, 2026
On the cusp of Molly McCloy’s 1993 college graduation, she wrote her father a letter, asking him to apologize for nine instances of mental, verbal, and physical trauma. In her […]
Molly McCloy, author of NINE GRUDGES, interviewed by Eric Aldrich for Full Stop
Date: September 17, 2026
Molly McCloy’s new memoir, Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth, won the 2023 Book Pipeline “Unpublished” Award and the 2023 Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press. […]
Molly McCloy, author of NINE GRUDGES, and Amy Goldmacher in a conversational interview written by The Brevity Blog
Date: September 16, 2026
Memoirists Amy Goldmacher and Molly McCloy are working similar terrain—difficult fathers, inherited damage, reconciling trauma from childhood—through different structures. Goldmacher’s forthcoming Terms & Conditions fractures memory into alphabetized shards; McCloy’s […]
Marivi Soliven, author of TAXI DANCER, interviewed on Tesoro Poets’ Network
Date: September 14, 2026
Jason Schneiderman wins 2026 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism!
Date: September 10, 2026
Huge congratulations to Jason Schneiderman on this prestigious honor, alongside fellow 2026 Pegasus Awards recipients Robert Pinsky, Luis J. Rodriguez, Nikki Grimes, and Meg Day!
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, interviewed by Hannah Means Shannon from Americana Highways
Date: September 10, 2026
Singer/songwriter and poet Amy Speace is releasing a collection of poems called The Cardinals on September 1st, 2026, along with an accompanying single, “Days of Letting Go,” out September 4th, […]
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, interviewed by Michael Lello for Highway 81 Revisited
Date: September 8, 2026
Amy Speace’s senior university lecture was a discussion on whether Bob Dylan is a poet or a songwriter. Now, Speace is living that dichotomy, as she releases a book of […]
Marivi Soliven, author of Taxi Dancer, connects with Tara Lundmark virtually
Date: September 3, 2026
Tara: So Marivi, I would love to hear your Meet Cue for Taxi Dancer. When, where, and how did inspiration first strike? Marivi: When we first moved to San Diego in 2001, […]
Molly Fisk, author of WALKING WHEEL, featured in Omnium Gatherum Quarterly (OGQ)
Date: September 1, 2026
BRIDE She wakes and dresses quickly in the dark,buttoning her bodice one-handed,her other palm smoothing back the sheetagainst its linen companion, a pillowcaseetched around with her smallest stitches,both newly released […]
Reviews:
In The Review Spotlight: Audrey Shipp of Hippocampus Magazine on Desire Lines: A Memoir by Kristen Millares Young
Date: October 15, 2026
In Desire Lines (Red Hen Press; Oct 2026), a memoir-in-essays, Cuban American novelist, journalist, and essayist Kristen Millares Young delivers a series of confessions, one being how her life story […]
Positively Filipino publishes an intense review of Marivi Soliven’s Taxi Dancer!
Date: October 7, 2026
Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we […]
Laura Kasischke’s THE LIFEGUARD reviewed by Rain Taxi!
Date: October 1, 2026
Florencia Ramirez’s THE KITCHEN ACTIVIST reviewed by Publishers Weekly!
Date: October 1, 2026
In this hands-on manifesto, Ramirez, host of The Kitchen Activist podcast and author of Eat Less Water, encourages readers to prepare meals in ways that lower food waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Explaining that […]
Brendan Constantine’s THE OPPOSITES GAME reviewed by G Emil Reutter of North of Oxford!
Date: October 1, 2026
The journey into The Opposites Game enters the sometime surreal, sometime witty, sometime irreverent world of Brendan Constantine. All is not joy as the dark lays just under the thinly veiled poems […]
David Mason reviewed by Brian Brodeur of New Verse Review!
Date: September 28, 2026
Mason’s achievements in verse narratives surpass those of other Expansive Poets, spanning multiple subgenres. His best early short-stories in verse are the tetrameter poems “Gusev” and “The Next Place” and […]
Christopher Connor of A Few More Words reviews Jim Tilley’s latest poetry collection, WHEN GODOT ARRIVED
Date: September 15, 2026
The possibilities in form throughout one poetry collection feel unimaginably wide. But consistency of form can reveal the true beauty of language, particularly for readers who are otherwise disinclined toward […]
Christopher Connor of A Few More Words reviews Nita Noveno’s latest memoir, MUD ON THE MOON
Date: September 15, 2026
It’s hard to imagine that our parents had lives and told us lies even before we were born. As we ourselves age, the gap widens between what we think we […]
Abrea Armstrong’s FERRY TALES Reviewed by Booklist
Date: September 8, 2026
“Perfect for readers interested in fiction that explores the interconnectedness of Africans at home and in the diaspora across generations.” — Enobong Tommelleo (Booklist Reviewer)
Liz Kay’s FALLOUT Reviewed by Booklist
Date: September 8, 2026
“…this is at heart a multigenerational family saga, set during the Cold War period in U.S. history and beautifully capturing the fear and turmoil people felt then. A great pick […]