Date: July 8, 2025
Elise Paschen’s latest collection is Blood Wolf Moon, our from Red Hen. Her poem “Heritage” appeared in our A GATHERING OF NATIVE VOICES issue back in 2020…
Date: July 7, 2025
April Ossmann, a former executive director of Alice James Books, has published a timely collection simply and optimistically called “We.” It’s a stirring effort to heal America’s deadly political conflicts with […]
Date: July 7, 2025
It’s the perfect time of the year to celebrate our independents. By that, we mean independent presses — the small publishers powered by literary true believers, committed to putting out curated works that […]
Date: July 1, 2025
Dark academia and romance is a genre mash-up that’s meant to be. The heightened suspense gives characters a reason to rely on each other and form close bonds… if they […]
Date: June 30, 2025
In an exclusive extract from his book, Drumming with Dead Can Dance: and Parallel Adventures, former Dead Can Dance drummer Peter Ulrich looks back at an almost fateful mishap in […]
Date: June 18, 2025
In a recent interview with Bookish Brews, Angel Eye author Madeleine Nakamura talks about the concept and her experience of defensive writing—the anxiety over imagined criticism that can cause writers […]
Date: June 17, 2025
Date: June 4, 2025
Elise Paschen’s sixth poetry collection, “Blood Wolf Moon” explores the storylines of her Osage heritage. The core of the book takes on “The Reign of Terror,” when white outsiders murdered […]
Date: May 29, 2025
When Red Hen Press began 30 years ago, cofounder Kate Gale recounted that Los Angeles’ literary scene was crumbling. “There were no [Master of Fine Arts] programs, bookstores were closing, […]
Date: May 20, 2025
Thank you to the New York Times for a beautiful obituary for our dear Nahid Rachlin, who passed away on April 30, 2025. We’re honored to have been a part […]
Date: July 1, 2024
NYT lists A PUNISHING BREED as one of their picks for the 4 Great Fictional Detectives. Check out the full review below!
Date: July 1, 2024
Two poets read and review poems from Susan Rich’s poetry collection, BLUE ATLAS.
Date: June 27, 2024
Kirkus Review writes, “Wright explores the ravages of psychopathy on society through the lives of two young killers. The Zanetti twins, Benjamin and Corinthia, are marked by violence from an […]
Date: June 25, 2024
”Negative capability” was initially described by 18th-century English poet John Keats as a poet’s way of living with uncertainty, or with openness to competing moods. In two recently published volumes, […]
Date: June 25, 2024
In her latest book, Blue Atlas, newly released from Red Hen Press, award-winning Washington poet Susan Rich confronts and chronicles her world before, during and after an abortion she underwent as […]
Date: June 24, 2024
It used to be said that “essays don’t sell, nobody wants to read them.” That was never really true, and, in the hands of a gifted writer like Jennifer Brice, […]
Date: June 10, 2024
“DC Frost does an artful job of weaving in current campus social issues, juggling multiple suspects, and giving us a peek into the tense relationship between the two men who […]
Date: June 6, 2024
LA Daily News adds A PUNISHING BREED by DC Frost to their list of 10 summer books from LA authors!
Date: June 4, 2024
A problem with circles is that they can be traps. Acupuncture, yoga, LSD, past-life regressions, pole dancing, psychic surgery, “special tea”: these are just some of the therapies sampled by […]
Date: May 29, 2024
“E.P. Tuazon’s collection of short stories A Professional Lola is a poignant, sly examination of their diasporic Filipino American community, told through interactions with extended family, intimate friends, adoptive/adaptive cultural clashes, and, […]
