TBLR: Importing Color
Date: July 1, 2020
During the ongoing shelter-in-place regime, I should be reading fiction and transporting myself to other worlds that might afford me a semblance of normality or familiarity. But I don’t seem […]
News & Reviews
News:
Repeating Islands: Donna Hemans
Date: July 1, 2020
Donna Heman’s forthcoming novel Tea by the Sea is now available for pre-ordering. It will be released on June 9, 2020 (Red Hen Press). Marlon James (author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf) writes: […]
Donna Hemans And TEA BY THE SEA on Wine Women & Writing
Date: July 1, 2020
Join Pamela Fagan Hutchins for a lovely conversation wtih Donna Hemans about her June 9, 2020 release, TEA BY THE SEA, a lyrical novel about family uniting and unraveling, set […]
Fanna: 15 BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS RELEASING IN JUNE 2020 || SUPPORT BLACK LIVES MATTER; READ & RECOMMEND THESE STORIES
Date: July 1, 2020
It’s been a week since the protests in United States have started to demand justice for all the black lives lost to racist cops’ brutality. Everyone is and should be […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Donna Hemans
Date: June 30, 2020
Read the full interview here!
Poets & Writers: Tea by the Sea
Date: June 30, 2020
“Eight years of active searching had come to this: an abandoned house, an outdoor stove, and a doll, signs of a former life but necessarily his and hers.” In this […]
NY Post: The best books of the week
Date: June 30, 2020
Tea by the SeaDonna Hemans (fiction, Red Hen Press)Plum Valentine’s daughter was taken from her the day after the baby was born, snatched, without explanation, by the girl’s father. Seventeen […]
The Rumpus: An Exploration of Belonging
Date: June 30, 2020
Jamaica-born writer Donna Hemans has been said to hear “life sung by a chorus, not a single voice.” Her plots are as intense as thrillers yet as resonant as poetry, and the lyricism and […]
Pigs on the TODAY show
Date: June 30, 2020
For June, the Read With Jenna book club dove into Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, “A Burning.” The book tackles themes of class, fate and corruption in contemporary India through the stories of […]
IPPY-Winning Poets Speak Out
Date: June 30, 2020
This year’s IPPY Awards had 148 entries into our two categories: Poetry– General and Poetry–Specialty. We awarded a total of 11 medals to poetry books; two each of gold, silver, […]
Reviews:
Interview with Cai Emmons, Weather Woman
Date: October 3, 2018
Andy Davis from Eco-fiction recently interviewed Cai Emmons author of Weather Woman. Davis asks Emmons about her inspirations and knowledge needed to write about the character in the story. Davis […]
Review: Weather Woman is a fantasy about control and illusion
Date: October 3, 2018
Weather Woman is best read as a story about a twenty-something who can’t make lemonade out of life’s lemons. Life is often a journey from crisis to crisis, and our […]
Asterix Journal reviews Gabriel Jesiolowski’s ‘As Burning Leaves’
Date: October 2, 2018
"…Jesiolowski has crafted a book of movement and landscape, in which individuals quietly but significantly consider what it is to move and transform from place to place" Thanks, Asterix Journal! […]
10 Great Resons To Read Fiction In October 2018
Date: October 2, 2018
Oakland Public Library has complied 10 ficiton books that everyone should read this October! Read the full article here
Peggy Shumaker’s CAIRN reviewed in INTO THE VOID
Date: September 27, 2018
Peggy Shumaker was the Alaska State Writer Laureate for 2010-2012 and the founding editor of Boreal Books, publishers of fine art and literature from Alaska. Cairn, her recently published collection, […]
As Burning Leaves’ receives a stunning review from Lambda Literary!
Date: September 26, 2018
Gabriel Jesiolowski articulates the vacancy within the story of grief in As Burning Leaves, a book-length poem in forty-seven segments. Read the full review
Dean Kostos: Poet of Two Worlds
Date: September 12, 2018
The lit Pub did a review on Dean Kostos's Poetry style from his various poetry books. It can be argued that all poetry is a negotiation between two worlds. An […]
Informing the Past: Allison Joseph?s ?Confessions of a Barefaced Woman?
Date: September 11, 2018
Allison Joseph's, Confessions of Barefaced Woman was reviewed by Robert Sheldon from MockingHeart Review. Allison Joseph?s new collection Confessions of a Barefaced Woman is a forthright and unabashed examination of […]
Bigfoots In Paradise
Date: September 11, 2018
Bigfoots in Paradise, by Doug Lawson, was reviewed by Booklist Online. Booklist Online reviews more that 180,000 books by trusted experts at the American Library Association. Leah Strauss from Booklist […]
THE PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE
Date: September 5, 2018
The Perpetual Motion Machine was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews. The book is a memoir that tells the story of Brittany Ackerma, the author, and how she would gradually find her […]