Lara Ehrlich’s Alumni Profile (Q&A) w/ The University of Chicago!
Date: November 30, 2020
What kind of work have you done since MAPH? I see you work as marketing director for an arts festival, do you feel that your time at MAPH prepared you […]
News & Reviews
News:
Vote for ANIMAL WIFE to Win Electric Lit’s ‘Best Book Cover of 2020’!
Date: November 30, 2020
Vote for your favorites on Electric Literature’s Twitter and Instagram stories every day this week: round 1 (a whopping 16 matchups) today, round 2 Tuesday, quarterfinals Wednesday, semifinals Thursday, and the final face-off on […]
SmokeLong Quarterly hosted an interview with Lara Ehrlich!
Date: November 30, 2020
Yes! I often Frankenstein stories, in part due to my inefficient drafting method. I tend to write and write and write and follow tangents without worrying too much about characters […]
HIGH SKIES author Tracy Daugherty at the Portland Book Festival!
Date: November 23, 2020
Corvallis-based writer Tracy Daugherty shares a selection from his new novella, High Skies, in this reading filmed at the Portland Art Museum. Catch this reading on Literary Arts’ Instagram Stories on November 19th, or stream it […]
Lit Hub has added Lara Ehrlich’s Animal Wife to a list of most notable short story collections this year!
Date: November 23, 2020
“My mother said girls have to take care of themselves. That’s how we avoid turning into sea foam and falling down wells. That’s how we escape hunters and kings who […]
Chelsea Catherine featured in a local website for her opinion on Queer Lit!
Date: November 19, 2020
There’s nothing quite like witness the emergence of cicadas from their 17-year slumber. Of course it’s rather the noise you won’t soon forget. My senior year of high school cicadas […]
Deborah A. Lott featured in Southern California News Group’s “Lit Up”
Date: November 19, 2020
Deborah A. Lott, author of DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUT ME was featured in Southern California News Group’s “Lit Up: your guide to books, writers and the literary life of SoCal.” […]
Interview Q&A with Kristen Millares Young in VOL. 1 Brooklyn
Date: November 18, 2020
You evoke the landscape of Neah Bay incredibly well here; I’ve never been, but I felt a tactile sense of the place. How did you first become familiar with it? […]
Mary Odden (Mostly Water) is featured in Alaska Magazine this month!
Date: November 18, 2020
Boreal Books / Red Hen author, Mary Odden (Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North, June 2020) is featured in the November 2020 issue of Alaska Magazine. Her article, “Once More […]
Kristen Millares Young article in The Rumpus!
Date: November 16, 2020
As editor of SEISMIC:Seattle, City of Literature, I asked artists and storytellers to reflect on what it means for Seattle to be a City of Literature. While celebrating Seattle’s inclusion in […]
Reviews:
Rain Taxi reviews Motel Girl
Date: March 16, 2020
Rain Taxi Review of Books, Vol. 13 No.4, Winter 2008/2009: Greg Sanders’s prose will make you wake up and smell the latte, the Rioja, or maybe the gourmet cat food (“Hearty […]
Veronica Reyes Featured on Advocate.com!
Date: March 16, 2020
Poet Veronica Reyes’ collection, Chopper! Copper! was recently featured on Advocate.com’s list of “10 Great LGBT Summer Reads.” Check out the full list and Veronica’s feature here!
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 […]