Date: September 17, 2026
Amy Speace is a singer-songwriter based in Nashville, who recently released her first collection of poems, The Cardinals, via Red Hen Press. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she found herself at a number […]
Date: September 17, 2026
Award-winning singer/songwriter + poet Amy Speace will release her debut collection of poetry titled The Cardinals available Tuesday, September 1 published by Red Hen Press, with the accompanying single “Days […]
Date: September 17, 2026
Little made sense, on paper, about a folk singer in her 50s with a young child and a touring lifestyle pivoting to chase an MFA—and specifically to study a form […]
Date: September 17, 2026
Singer/songwriter and poet Amy Speace is set to release her debut poetry collection THE CARDINALS on September 1 through Red Hen Press, alongside a companion single titled ‘Days of Letting […]
Date: September 17, 2026
Date: September 17, 2026
Date: September 17, 2026
On the cusp of Molly McCloy’s 1993 college graduation, she wrote her father a letter, asking him to apologize for nine instances of mental, verbal, and physical trauma. In her […]
Date: September 17, 2026
Molly McCloy’s new memoir, Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth, won the 2023 Book Pipeline “Unpublished” Award and the 2023 Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press. […]
Date: September 16, 2026
Memoirists Amy Goldmacher and Molly McCloy are working similar terrain—difficult fathers, inherited damage, reconciling trauma from childhood—through different structures. Goldmacher’s forthcoming Terms & Conditions fractures memory into alphabetized shards; McCloy’s […]
Date: September 14, 2026
Date: June 9, 2021
Sadie Hoagland is the author of the novel, Strange Children. Hoagland is a fiction writer from Louisiana with a PhD from the University of Utah in fiction, as well as […]
Date: June 9, 2021
An emotionally intense and deftly crafted novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality and a particularly effective narrative storytelling style, “Strange Children” is an especially and unreservedly […]
Date: June 9, 2021
Martha Cooley’s title for her latest novel is a predicate. A main verb and direct object, to be precise, its three words at once call to mind the subject and more, at […]
Date: June 7, 2021
Though a newcomer to the genre, Bay Area author Cécile Barlier shows a mastery of the form with this visceral and eclectic debut. In stories that span from the harrowing […]
Date: May 25, 2021
In a 2019 interview at Lunch Ticket, Allison Joseph said the following about her emotionally abusive father: “Only after his death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In […]
Date: May 17, 2021
Hoagland’s lyrical but convoluted debut novel (after the collection American Grief in Four Stages) follows the children of Redfield, a polygamist cult living in a remote Southwest commune. After 16-year-old […]
Date: May 12, 2021
In “How It Can Happen,” one of the first poems in this fine new collection, the narrator imagines death as Shakespeare’s “other country.” She writes, “I go with you, / […]
Date: May 10, 2021
The stories and essays of Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World form a beautiful tapestry of communications across species and consciousness. From grateful dragonflies to fatherless strawberries to companionable […]
Date: May 10, 2021
I was new to the seventh grade when Ms. Rossi routinely refused to acknowledge me. Though my hand stabbed the air in response to questions she posed, Ms. Rossi never […]
Date: May 3, 2021
Deborah A. Lott’s Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir is the story of a young woman’s coming of age and how she separates her own identity from her family’s. She […]
