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: September 20, 2021
Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age; Tie, pregnant and grieving; Mark, a young man poised to assume […]
Date: July 23, 2014
Sean Arthur Joyce, on the blog Chameleonfire1, has very high praise for Gary Geddes' What Does A House Want?. “Geddes writes with a sureness of hand that is remarkable, never […]
Date: July 16, 2014
In a recent review on Monkeybicycle, Stefanie Wortman praised Douglas Kearney's unusual and exciting use of poetic form. "Kearney’s poems play with forms both visual and generic, drawing on the […]
Date: June 30, 2014
In a recent review of Gay Geddes' newest collection of poetry, M.A.C. Farrant, writing for The Vancouver Sun, lauds the poems' beauty and strength. Farrant writes, "Likewise, the poems in […]
Date: June 30, 2014
John Van Kirk's novel, Song for Chance— a 2013 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards finalist— was recently featured in the "Books for Readers" newsletter at Meredith Sue Willis.com. Of […]
Date: June 16, 2014
Over the weekend, Jessica Piazza received a great review from The Rumpus. Melissa Leigh Gore writes, “Each poem thrums with a sense of purpose, contributes to a complex web of […]
Date: June 6, 2014
Mike Sonksen, writing for KCET, heaps high praise upon Douglas Kearney and his newest book, Patter. “Wielding an undeniable command of the poetic line, Kearney's poems mix humor, irreverence, adventure, […]
Date: June 6, 2014
Jason Barry of the Coal Hill Review applauds David Mason's great success in his poetry collection, Sea Salt, Poems of a Decade: 2004-2014 "Sea Salt is a heartfelt and touching […]
Date: May 14, 2014
Nicelle Davis' latest poetry collection, Becoming Judas, was reviewed by Emily May Anderson of NewPages, who raved about the spirit and form of the poems. Anderson writes, "The book also […]
Date: May 14, 2014
Karen Gettert Shoemaker's debut novel, The Meaning of Names, gets positive remarks from the Historical Novel Society. "Shoemaker presents readers with a simple, realistic cast of characters, a heart-rending story […]
Date: May 14, 2014
The Historical Novel Society reviewed Dennis Must's new novel, The World's Smallest Bible, calling it a "challenging, thought-provoking, and worthwhile book." Read the full review
