Writing in the Schools Student Anthology Published
Date: March 16, 2020
News & Reviews
News:
Annie Finch does a guest blog spot on About a Word
Date: March 16, 2020
Elise Paschen in the Chicago Tribune
Date: March 16, 2020
The Heart’s Traffic in The Bloomsbury Review
Date: March 16, 2020
Cynthia Hogue in Tucson Weekly
Date: March 16, 2020
NEA Awards Red Hen Access to Artistic Excellence Grant
Date: March 16, 2020
Huffington Post interviews Gary Lemons
Date: March 16, 2020
Russell C. Smith chats with Gary Lemons about the main character in Snake in a two-part interview for the Huffington Post. To read part one of the interview, click
Termination Dust is a Lambda Award Finalist!
Date: March 16, 2020
Recently, Lambda Literary announced the finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards, and we are delighted that Susanna Mishler's fantastic poetry collection Termination Dust is among the finalists! To see the […]
Poetry in Motion celebrates 25 years
Date: March 16, 2020
It’s been 25 years since Poetry in Motion debuted in New York subway cars. This
Red Hen Represents at L.A Lit Crawl!
Date: March 16, 2020
This past Wednesday night, over one hundred L.A. artists gathered together in North Hollywood to celebrate great literature in the L.A. Lit Crawl. Some of our authors were there, and
Reviews:
[REVIEW] Animal Wife by Lara Ehrlich
Date: September 23, 2020
The cover of Lara Ehrlich’s debut short story collection, Animal Wife, might make you scream. On it, a quintessential 1950’s housewife, dressed in a frilly apron and with a bow in […]
Midwest Book Review: Tea by the Sea
Date: September 21, 2020
A deftly crafted and entertaining work of impressive literary nuance, “Tea by the Sea” by Donna Hemans is an extraordinary, original, and inherently fascinating novel that is especially and unreservedly […]
On Suitor by Joshua Rivkin
Date: September 21, 2020
In the first of two envois that appear in Joshua Rivkin’s Suitor, a speaker defines the word that gives the collection its title: Suitor, from the Latin secutor,to follow. I can’tcatch them, or […]
Four Questions to Help Demystify Your Relationship With Money
Date: September 14, 2020
Jennifer Risher took a job in campus recruiting at Microsoft in 1991. She was 25 and given stock options worth several hundred thousand dollars. While working there, she met her […]
Publisher’s Weekly: Summer of the Cicadas
Date: September 10, 2020
Catherine wraps a fast-paced, stirring narrative about loss and unrequited love into a story about an unusually aggressive 17-year cicada swarm and the terror it brings to the residents of […]
Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by Brevity’s Non-Fiction Blog
Date: September 10, 2020
Rebecca McClanahan’s In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays is an exploration of what it means to live in a place, and, in fact, what it means to live […]
Kirkus Reviews: Animal Wife
Date: September 10, 2020
Girls and women caught between myth and the modern world. Selected by Ann Hood as the winner of the Red Hen Fiction Award, Ehrlich’s debut collection contains 15 stories, some […]
Kirkus Reviews: Unseen City
Date: September 9, 2020
A ghost story that focuses not on a single spirit but on an entire city whose layered history haunts its occupants. “Meg had the unsettling sense that she was seeing […]
Foreword Reviews: Unseen City by Amy Shearn
Date: September 9, 2020
Amy Shearn’s modern fable Unseen City is anchored by smart, sly humor. It delves into the layered social, psychological, and historical architecture of New York City, a place that’s paved over the […]
Under Nushagak Bluff and the shadow of pandemic in Alaska literature: Review of Mia C. Heavener’s debut novel
Date: September 3, 2020
Seagulls swoop and dive, crying in the salty air. The waves of Nushagak Bay crash on sandbars and rocky shores. Machines rattle the warehouses on the cannery side of the […]