Khalisa Rae interviewed on PopSugar!
Date: February 11, 2021
Self-care has never been more important than it is right now, and that’s especially true for Black women, who have had to juggle work, family, personal lives, and more amid ongoing […]
News & Reviews
News:
Tobi Harper interviewed on Brain Hackers podcast!
Date: February 8, 2021
Tobi Harper is Deputy Director of Red Hen Press, Founder and Editor of Quill (a queer publishing series), Publisher of The Los Angeles Review, and Instructor for the UCLA Extension […]
Tess Taylor featured on CNN!
Date: February 3, 2021
Before the pandemic hit, playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach was working on a play about American labor movements between 1890 and 1920 — an era that many associate with seamstresses jumping out […]
TEA BY THE SEA listed on Electric Lit!
Date: January 25, 2021
My mom says every mother needs a daughter. It’s not that she doesn’t love and appreciate her two sons. My middle brother knows best how to comfort her in times […]
Tess Taylor’s RIFT ZONE longlisted for the Believer Book Awards!
Date: January 20, 2021
Each year, the editors of The Believer present awards to the works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry they find to be the best written and most underappreciated. For the first time ever, […]
Jennifer Risher featured in Forbes Magazine!
Date: January 20, 2021
Before Covid hit, my family often traveled to Germany. There, we found “Asian” restaurants in many small German towns. I had to chuckle at the generalization. Did these restaurants serve […]
TEA BY THE SEA (Donna Hemans) and HER SISTER’S TATTOO (Ellen Meeropol) shortlisted for the Story Circle’s Women’s Book Awards!
Date: January 20, 2021
The Sarton Awards are presented in four categories (memoir, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, nonfiction). The award program is named in honor of May Sarton, who is remembered for her outstanding contributions […]
Essay by Deborah Thompson featured in Mercurius Magazine!
Date: January 20, 2021
Every time the Animal Control van crept down my block, I’d pray that it wouldn’t stop at my house. As a childless widow with four dogs, I’d become the neighbourhood […]
Essay by Martha Cooley in Literary Hub!
Date: January 13, 2021
On a damp afternoon a few years ago, descending a stone ramp adjacent to a cobblestone lane, I slipped on a slick patch. Landing on my seat, I bounced upward […]
Conversation with Kristen Millares Young by NYS Writers Institute!
Date: January 13, 2021
“As a journalist, I’d always been interested in finding that space between what people say and what they do. That’s the way we use rhetoric to hold politicians accountable… As […]
Reviews:
Janice Eidus Gives Voice to Adolescent Virgin Vampire The Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of FateThe Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of Fate by Janice Eidus
Date: March 16, 2020
Janice Eidus Gives Voice to Adolescent Virgin Vampire The Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of FateThe Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of Fate by Janice Eidus My rating: 4 of […]
City Paper Praises My Body is a Book of Rules!
Date: March 16, 2020
Rebekah Kirkman of City Paper praised Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules. “Though the shifts from one chapter to the next can be awkward and jarring, Washuta […]
Midwest Book Review praises A HALFMAN DREAMING
Date: March 16, 2020
Thanks to Midwest Book Review for this fantastic praise, saying A HALFMAN DREAMING is “an enticing read that is sure to provoke much to think about… [and] an excellent and fine literary […]
Anthony Hecht reviews The Alarming Beauty of our Sky
Date: March 16, 2020
The Alarming Beauty of the Sky Leslie Monsour. Red Hen (CDC
“the only other poet who plies risk against reward so deftly is Pound.”
Date: March 16, 2020
Strong Verse reviews Ernest Hilbert’s Sixty Sonnets. First let me say that Ernie Hilbert is a sneaky bastard for including the Bauman’s Rare Books Catalogue in the package that delivered his […]
SEATTLE REVIEW OF BOOKS reviews EAT LESS WATER
Date: March 16, 2020
Huge thanks to the Seattle Review of Books for this great review on EAT LESS WATER, saying that these “deeply personal stories, told with love and care” “could not have come at […]
THE NIGHTLIFE praised by Kenyon Review
Date: March 16, 2020
Elise Paschen’s THE NIGHTLIFE was recently reviewed by the Kenyon Review in their October 2017 microreviews! The lovely Janet McAdams says, “Paschen’s work has always seemed to me infused by […]
Coming Home to Roost
Date: March 16, 2020
In a previous post called Blogging and the Memoir Community I promised to review DeWitt Henry’s memoir called Safe Suicide because he was the first published author who found me […]
“Residue”creates a “funny, bizarre, and ultimately satisfying experience” for Blotterature
Date: March 16, 2020
“Residue” leaves its’ readers wondering “whodunit” and what happens next! If you enjoy “humor in absurdity”, look no further
Informing the Past: Allison Joseph’s Confessions of a Barefaced Woman?
Date: March 6, 2020
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 the speaker?s personal lives. […]