Read “Marked” by Deborah A. Lott in The Writing Disorder!
Date: June 23, 2021
My father’s hand shot up to his eyebrow, his finger poised there, as if he were about to stroke his brow. A gesture I’d always considered deeply imbued with his […]
News & Reviews
News:
AMERICAN QUASAR’s Poet David Campos and Artist Maceo Montoya, featured on Words on a Wire!
Date: June 22, 2021
Host Daniel Chacon welcomes Poet David Campos and Artist Maceo Montoya to discuss their new work, American Quasar, a visual-textual collaboration.
Dariel Suarez, author of THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE, published by LitHub!
Date: June 17, 2021
As an undergraduate creative writing student, one piece of feedback kept appearing on the margin of my stories: awkward phrasing. Red markings littered my pages, arrows pointing every which way, […]
An article by Tess Taylor, author of RIFT ZONE, is featured in Harper’s Magazine!
Date: June 16, 2021
Throughout his political career, Joe Biden has frequently invoked his favorite poet, Seamus Heaney. Accepting the Democratic nomination for president, Biden quoted Heaney’s “The Cure at Troy,” an adaptation of […]
STRANGE CHILDREN author, Sadie Hoagland, writes about the pandemic and reading for The Daily Beast
Date: June 14, 2021
It was difficult not being able to rely on something, really two things—writing and reading—that I have relied on my whole life as escapes and stress-reducers. Read more here!
Kate Gale Interviews Amanda Montell in LitHub
Date: June 14, 2021
Managing Editor of Red Hen Press Dr. Kate Gale interviews Amanda Montell, author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism in this in-depth interview on LitHub!
The Year by Joshua Rivkin, author of SUITOR, featured as Poem of the Day on Verse Daily!
Date: June 9, 2021
I broke every window.The year I stole every library book. The year I lived below the El, always the hum, running through and by of people who desired to be arrived. Read the […]
Essay written by Chelsey Clammer, author of CIRCADIAN, published in Entropy Magazine!
Date: June 9, 2021
I’m falling apart all over the place in a hotel room in some godawful state that’s one-third of the way between Denver and Washington, D.C. I hopped in my car […]
FROM THE CAVES by Thea Prieto featured in The Masters Review Blog!
Date: June 7, 2021
Prieto, whose micro-fiction was published in The Masters Review in 2016, debuts with this haunting novella, the winner of 2019 Red Hen Press Novella Award, in which environmental catastrophe has driven four […]
THE WILDERNESS poet Maurya Simon wrote an article featured in THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE!
Date: June 2, 2021
Reviews:
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Five South!
Date: April 19, 2022
John Weir’s linked stories explore sexuality and separation through platonic love, activism, art, and death — in a time when gender was confined to “girl, boy, or faggot” and AIDS […]
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: April 4, 2022
Elaborate scams and workplace murders abound in this bleakly comic novel.
Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: April 4, 2022
A socially awkward tech worker grapples with his impending divorce, his relationship with his young son, and his struggle to create human connections in a tech-driven world.
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: March 17, 2022
Weir’s linked collection of bittersweet, often witty stories elucidates almost 50 years in the life of a gay White man in the U.S., from enduring school taunts in 1970s New […]
FROM THE CAVES reviewed in The Rupture!
Date: March 1, 2022
The cover art of Thea Prieto’s debut novella coupled with its title, From the Caves, invited this reviewer immediately to consider Plato’s famed Allegory of the Cave. Plato’s fire, however, […]
Frank Soos’ THE GETTING PLACE reviewed in Anchorage Daily News!
Date: February 22, 2022
Readers and writers in Alaska and beyond are grieving the loss of Frank Soos, a beloved emeritus professor from the University of Alaska and Alaska’s Writer Laureate from 2014-16, who […]
Sadie Hoagland’s STRANGE CHILDREN reviewed in the Harvard Review Online!
Date: February 15, 2022
In Sadie Hoagland’s debut novel, Strange Children, eight young narrators struggle to navigate two very different worlds. Some are exiled to the lurid, modern American city, with its microwave dinners, senseless […]
AMERICAN BASTARD by Jan Beatty reviewed in International Swans!
Date: February 3, 2022
We are taught that a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. We are taught that a girl who ventures on a quest to find her lost parents […]
DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES by Beth Gilstrap reviewed in Necessary Fiction!
Date: February 1, 2022
Deadheading, the practice of pruning dead flower heads in order to preserve the plant, provides Beth Gilstrap with a rich metaphor around which to organize her new story collection. The […]
QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE Reviewed for Delmarva Review!
Date: January 24, 2022
DIANE THIEL’S WORK has always asked fundamental and human questions. Janet Holmes, reviewing Thiel’s first book, Echolocations, notes that Thiel’s work deals with “silences, evasions, loss, and omissions.” This third […]