TEA BY THE SEA by Donna Hemans nominated for Best Book Cover in The Zibby Awards!
Date: August 4, 2021
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News & Reviews
News:
Joan Nockels reads a preview of her upcoming book THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY: THE DEVIL, MY BROTHER AND ME!
Date: August 4, 2021
Joan Nockels Wilson gives a brief reading of her new memoir, coming out in November, for her MFA Program at University of Alaska.
Kim Dower’s poem featured over the weekend in The Writer’s Almanac!
Date: August 4, 2021
“Barbara, my childhood piano teacherplayed Chopin like he was whisperinginto her hands, all us kids from the buildinghad our Saturday morning lessons, apartment 6C,our giddy fingers trotting in the key […]
Red Hen Press Awards Named Best Writing Contests of 2021 from Reedsy!
Date: August 2, 2021
Red Hen Press is honored to be included on the Reedsy list of Best Writing Contests of 2021! Reedsy is a leading creative hub for the literary community, and is […]
Martha Cooley in conversation with LARB on her novel BUY ME LOVE!
Date: August 2, 2021
This is not a spoiler, I promise it isn’t, only just consider for a moment: Say you buy a lottery ticket — have you ever? — say you do, just […]
Kristen Young’s SUBDUCTION included in Book Riot’s #TheNewLatinBoom!
Date: August 2, 2021
Latin American literature travels frequently in its original form, in translation, and through the presence of writers who don’t stay put. In the U.S., works by Latin American writers make their way […]
Kim Dower’s poetry featured in The Writer’s Almanac!
Date: July 30, 2021
“Wake up thinking it’s trash dayso I move the cans out to the fronteven though it’s pouring. Back in,make extra strong coffee,read the story in the paperabout the 400-pound bear […]
SINKING ISLANDS author Cai Emmons interviewed on KBOO!
Date: July 29, 2021
On today’s show, we welcome two Oregon-based writers — Suzy Vitello and Cai Emmons — who have published recent novels, speculative fiction, focused on climate change, its effects on the environment and those of […]
When Your Book Publishes In A Pandemic — Authors, Including Aimee Liu, Talk About Terrible Timing
Date: July 28, 2021
Sarah Ramey’s first book was supposed to be a very big deal. Her publishers expected The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness to be a runaway best seller.”We had a huge publicity […]
If It Isn’t Broken: A Conversation between Francesca Bell & Justine Bateman
Date: July 28, 2021
JUSTINE BATEMAN HAS LIVED in the public eye for nearly 40 years. During those years, she’s been a lot of things — actress, writer, producer, director, designer, pilot, wife, mother […]
Reviews:
Review: Open the Dark by Marie Tozier
Date: July 27, 2020
Marie Tozier’s new book, Open the Dark, is a lyrical guide to the life in Northwest Alaska experienced by the Iñupiaq poet and her family. It touches on themes that can be […]
The Fragile Human: A Review Of Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone And Last West, Roadsongs For Dorothea Lange
Date: July 20, 2020
“Whose fault // our fault” the poem “Three Dreams, 2018” opens. Tess Taylor’s fourth collection of poems, Rift Zone, tenders to her reader the language of fault, rift and fracture as her […]
Poetry Book Review: Suitor by Joshua Rivkin
Date: July 20, 2020
In part one (titled “Suitors”) of Rivkin’s sharp debut, a long poem in sections cataloguing his mother’s appalling boyfriends, the speaker recalls one priceless specimen who, for Halloween, dressed as […]
Foreword Review: Sugar, Smoke, Song
Date: July 13, 2020
Reema Rajbanshi’s debut novel-in-stories Sugar, Smoke, Song collects its thematically linked pieces into three clusters with recurring characters. The first group, starting with “The Ruins,” centers on beautiful Indo-Burmese identical […]
Donna Hemans, “Tea by the Sea” Review
Date: July 13, 2020
A new father walks out of the hospital with his day-old baby while the mother recuperates from giving birth. He tells a series of lies and moves houses or countries […]
‘Her Sister’s Tattoo’ Is an Insightful and Compassionate Tale of Sisterhood and Activism
Date: July 13, 2020
Ellen Meeropol’s last name is famous among those of us who still recall the tragic case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were put to death in 1953 after being […]
Toward Antarctica Review
Date: July 13, 2020
“CAN’T JUST GO. Can’t, more to the point, just arrive, land. You must prepare yourself,” writes the poet Elizabeth Bradfield, in Toward Antarctica, a marvelous book of prose, poems, and photographs that document her tenure as […]
Blog Tour: Tea by the Sea
Date: July 1, 2020
Thank you to the following blogs for featuring Donna Heman’s Tea by the Sea! The Livre Café Jessica Belmont Fiction Matters Everyday I Write the Book Never Without A Book […]
KIRKUS: Tea by the Sea
Date: July 1, 2020
A young mother goes on a quest to track down the father of her child, who abducted their baby daughter shortly after her birth. When Plum Valentine is in high […]
Publisher Weekly: The Likely World
Date: June 30, 2020
This skillful twist on the addiction narrative is worth a look.