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:
Lily Hoang’s UNDERNEATH reviewed in Patch!
Date: January 18, 2022
In a word, wow! We know how it ends and yet we still find it mesmerizing. We know she kills all four of her children but we read on to […]
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly!
Date: January 11, 2022
Weir (The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket) returns with a searing collection of stories about death from the perspective of a gay man who survived the AIDS epidemic. The unnamed […]
The Book of Timothy by Joan Nockels Wilson and Everything Never Comes Your Way by Nicole Stellon O’Donnell were featured as favorite books of 2021 by Anchorage Daily News!
Date: January 4, 2022
Anchorage Daily News book reviewers Nancy Lord and David James present, in no particular order, the 2021 works — including fiction, nonfiction and graphic novels — that they found most […]
Jan Beatty’s new memoir AMERICAN BASTARD reviewed on Pittsburgh City Paper!
Date: December 8, 2021
The cover photo shows a young girl smiling as she points a toy gun at the camera. At first glance, the book’s title seems to be American Badass. But the correct name […]
Tess Taylor’s RIFT ZONE featured in Magma Literary Magazine!
Date: December 2, 2021
A CAMERA OBSCURA, by Carl Marcum, reviewed for Pedestal Magazine!
Date: November 23, 2021
Just as the James West Space Telescope (the J.W.S.T.) is about to supersede the Hubble Telescope (offering the difference between myopia and 20-20 vision, at least when it comes to […]
Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES is a staff pick at Bear Pond Books!
Date: November 18, 2021
A fantastic novella of literary merit about a small family living in a cave after the climate apocalypse. Told in language that sings from the point of view of Sky, […]
THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY Featured in New York Journal of Books!
Date: November 15, 2021
“Wilson has created a panoramic saga of cruelty, injustice, loyalty, and devotion. This is a heartbreaking, loving, moving story told by a sister, daughter, mother, woman who demands and deserves […]
Anchorage Daily News Features THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY Review!
Date: November 15, 2021
Sexual abuse of children by clergy is once more in the news. Last month, a new report estimated that some 330,000 French children were abused by Catholic clergy and other […]
THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY Reviewed in New York Journal of Books!
Date: November 15, 2021
“Wilson has created a panoramic saga of cruelty, injustice, loyalty, and devotion. This is a heartbreaking, loving, moving story told by a sister, daughter, mother, woman who demands and deserves […]