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:
Another Sonic Masterpiece” for Douglas Kearney”
Date: January 30, 2014
Douglas Kearney's latest poetry collection, Patter, got an early review from blogger and The Rumpus poetry editor, Brian Spears, on his personal blog New in Des Moines. Spears describes the […]
Ernest Hilbert’s All of You on the Good Earth Breathes New Life into the Sonnet
Date: January 30, 2014
Glassworks reviewed Ernest Hilbert's latest poetry collection, All of You on the Good Earth, praising its use of perspective and observation to reflect on past and modern humanity. Writer Stephanie […]
Jessica Piazza’s Interrobang Reviewed by The Rumpus
Date: January 8, 2014
Jessica Piazza's poetry collection Interrobang recieves an enthusiastic review from literary site The Rumpus. Writer Mag Gabbert proclaims, "The experience of reading these poems is like wandering through a hall […]
Pedestal Magazine Reviews Nicelle Davis’ Becoming Judas
Date: January 8, 2014
Pedestal Magazine reviewed Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas, complimeting the poet on her unique ability to mix topics of religion, love and desire, among others, into one seemless collection. JoSelle Vanderhooft […]
Kathleen Driskell’s Seed Across Snow Featured on the Spokeman Review
Date: January 8, 2014
Kathleen Driskell's poem "Seed" from her collection Seed Across Snow has been featured on the Spokesman Review. Writer Ted Kooser describes the poem's focus on the sweetness of parent-child bonds, […]
The Sonnet makes a Comeback and Ernest Hilbert is its Advocate
Date: January 8, 2014
Peter Crimmins examines the evolution of the sonnet in his article for Newsworks, focusing on modern poetry that reimagines this classic poetic form in new and exciting ways. Red Hen's […]
Nicelle Davis’ Becoming Judas Lauded by the Ampersand Review
Date: January 8, 2014
The Ampersand Review praised Nicelle Davis' poetry collection, Becoming Judas, in a review of her work. Reviewer Darby Laine writes, "This talented author's living testimony is crafted as interpretation, extension […]
Steve Basset’s Golden Ghetto Receives Praise
Date: January 2, 2014
The Bulletin of Overseas Brats praises Steve Basset's memoir Golden Ghetto. "This book has the benefit of a very gifted writer because the more interested and fascinated he becomes, the […]
Alibi Praises Steve Basset’s Golden Ghetto
Date: December 13, 2013
Lisa Barrow from Alibi calls Steve Basset's style in Golden Ghetto: How the Americans & French Fell In & Out of Love During the Cold War "enthusiastic." "Bassetts old-school journalistic […]
Verónica Reyes’s Chopper! Chopper! Named One of the Best LGBT Books of 2013
Date: December 12, 2013
Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, author of Amorcito Maricón names Verónica Reyes's Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives in his top three favorite LGBT books of 2013. "Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from […]