BLOOD WOLF MOON by Elise Paschen WINS the 2026 Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry!
Date: May 21, 2026
Huge congratulations to Elise, and to all of the finalists!
News & Reviews
News:
Helen Benedict Brings Iraq Trilogy’s Final Chapter to Vroman’s!
Date: May 21, 2026
Helen Benedict wrote about the Iraq War as a journalist first — the sexual assaults, the displacement, the veterans who came home different. Then she turned the same material into […]
THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD listed as a work celebrating Armenian mothers by Armenian Weekly!
Date: May 19, 2026
Preceded by “Zabelle,” “Dreams of Bread and Fire,” and “All the Light There Was,” “The Burning Heart of the World” is the fourth book in Kricorian’s “Armenian Diaspora Quartet” focused […]
WABE interviews Amy Pence to discuss her latest novel, YELLOW!
Date: May 19, 2026
Acclaimed poet and essayist Amy Pence has released a new speculative fiction novel that blends science fiction, Southern gothic storytelling and a coming-of-age story set across decades of change in […]
Katie Couric Media shares an essay by MORNING LEAVES author Laing Rikkers!
Date: May 12, 2026
Dementia and Ambiguous Grief: Holding on While Letting Go – Loving someone with dementia reshapes how we understand love, loss, and presence.
The American Scholar reads a poem from David Mason’s COLD FIRE!
Date: May 12, 2026
Amanda Holmes reads David Mason’s “Before the Loon Calls.”
Librarians recommend YELLOW by Amy Pence if you loved REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES!
Date: May 12, 2026
11 Books Like ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures,’ According to Librarians.
Necessary Fiction reviews Khanh Ha’s latest novel, THE AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER!
Date: May 6, 2026
After years of working on media stories about hotly contested political situations, I’ve learned that sometimes telling the truth about a situation will make people mad. As I read Khanh […]
Molly Fisk shares her writing process for WALKING WHEEL on Periodicity Journal!
Date: May 6, 2026
The ‘process note’ pieces were originally solicited by Maw Shein Win as addendum to her teaching particular poems and poetry collections for various workshops and classes. This process note and […]
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK is listed as a bestseller in SoCal independent bookstores!
Date: May 5, 2026
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,April 26, 2026. This list is based […]
Reviews:
Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by Kenyon Review
Date: October 10, 2020
The subtitle “A Memoir in Essays” suggests that this memoir will follow a nontraditional narrative, and its unexpected movements are part of the reward. The narrative rises and falls with […]
Lara Ehrlich’s ANIMAL WIFE reviewed by Metapsychology Online Reviews.
Date: October 8, 2020
“There is this kind of appeal for readers in the highly recommended Animal Wife, Red Hen Press’s Fiction Award winner, with its fresh take on the mythopoeic in relation to […]
[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 […]