Cynthia Hogue participates in poetry reading with POG Arts Tucson!
Date: October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Date: October 18, 2021
I met Martha Cooley in 1999 when, as a then-visiting writer in the Bennington MFA program, she gave a series of lectures, one of which covered Milan Kundera. Martha joined […]
Date: October 14, 2021
As one expects from stories published by Red Hen Press’s Kate Gale, monadnock of the LA literary publishing scene for {undisclosed} years now, there is a weird and unsettling tension […]
Date: October 11, 2021
In Oregon author Cai Emmons’ 2018 novel, Weather Woman, an atmospheric scientist discovers that she is capable of controlling the elements she’s long studied: She can shut down a thunderstorm, […]
Date: October 4, 2021
Beth Gilstrap’s second story collection, Deadheading, won the 2019 Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Award and publishes tomorrow. It includes stories Leesa Cross-Smith characterizes as “little gardens—the words blooming, the […]
Date: September 28, 2021
Date: September 28, 2021
Date: September 22, 2021
Two years ago, Eugene Scene published a story about Weather Woman, Eugene author Cai Emmons’ first book to feature a young woman named Bronwyn Artair, who discovers that by using […]
Date: September 22, 2021
HBL Note: Although SINKING ISLANDS by Cai Emmons is a sequel to Weather Woman, it can also easily be read as a stand-alone novel. In Weather Woman, we meet Bronwyn […]
Date: September 22, 2021
SINKING ISLANDS continues the story of Bronwyn Artair, a scientist who possesses the power to influence the weather and other natural forces of the Earth. After several successful interventions stopping […]
Date: August 21, 2013
Anna Challet from Tikkun discusses the stories of Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "…each story is a world unto itself. Lam’s characters are haunted by what they have lost, […]
Date: August 21, 2013
Sandy Longhorn from Atticus Review praises the language and layers of meaning found in the poems of Carolyn Guinzio's Spoke & Dark.– "Spoke & Dark requires much of the reader, […]
Date: August 14, 2013
Brian Katcher from Forever Young Adult discusses the "unique" writing style in B.H. James' Parnucklian for Chocolate.- "If this book had been presented to me as a recently discovered, unpublished […]
Date: August 14, 2013
Courtney McDermott from NewPages comments on B.H. James' "inventive" first novel, Parnucklian for Chocolate.- "In stark, self-conscious language, the author navigates parenting, psychiatric facilities, and what it means to not […]
Date: August 1, 2013
Lee Gulyas from Contrary Magazine applauds Kelly Davio's use of "the lens and language of religion to question existence, family, and herself" in the poems of Burn This House.- "Don't […]
Date: July 25, 2013
Noah Cho from Hyphen Magazine applauds the stories of Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "Each of the thirteen stories has a distinct tone and flavor….for Lam, that risk of […]
Date: July 25, 2013
Publishers Weekly comments on the remarkable story found in Mary Evelyn Greene's When Rain Hurts.– "With vivid language and strong imagery, [Greene] describes the harsh deprivations characteristic of Russia's orphanages, […]
Date: July 19, 2013
Check out the August issue of Kirkus to read their take on Mary Evelyn Greene's When Rain Hurts.- "A searingly candid chronicle of the heroic struggle of two adoptive parents […]
Date: July 11, 2013
Eric Nguyen applauds Birds of Paradise Lost, calling it short stories of "second chances."- “What is refreshing about Lam’s work is that it defies expectations of ‘immigrant story’…. Lam’s stories […]
Date: July 11, 2013
storySouth applauds Brendan Constantine's poetry in Calamity Joe.- “While the narratives of loss help hold this work together, it’s Constantine’s lyrical touch that keeps the poems engaging…their inventiveness is refreshing […]