Date: October 23, 2014
Carla Sameh and Christina Babock sit down with Elissa Washuta to discuss My Body is a Book of Rules, which they call "transformative": "She excavates these categories in a unique […]
Date: October 17, 2014
Recently, Poets & Writers published an article featuring eleven small-press authors and their publishers, and we were featured! The article includes insight from Kate Gale, our Managing Editor, and Pete […]
Date: October 17, 2014
Recently, Kate Gale sat down with NHPR's Word of Mouth segment to share her story of growing up on High View Church Farm, a group she considered "cult-like." This is […]
Date: October 9, 2014
Pete Fromm and Cherie Newman discussed Pete's latest novel, If Not For This, on MTPR this week. Pete reads and explains an excerpt from his book, and gives the listeners […]
Date: October 6, 2014
Anne Rasmussen from Late Night Library interviewed author Ron Koertge about his latest flash fiction, Sex World. In the interview, Anne and Ron engage in an enlightening discussion about the […]
Date: August 27, 2014
PEN Center USA recently announced the winners and finalists for their 2014 Literary Awards, and we are delighted that B.H. James' novel Parnucklian for Chocolate was selected as a finalist […]
Date: July 7, 2014
A recent blog post on La Bloga featured an interview with Red Hen author Veronica Reyes about her recent win at the International Latino Book Awards. Veronica tied for first […]
Date: June 2, 2014
Congratulations to Jessica Piazza's Interrobang for winning the Balcones Poetry Prize from Austin Community College! Interrobang by Jessica Piazza, published by Red Hen Press, is Piazza's first book. Born and […]
Date: May 16, 2014
Congratulations to Red Hen author Peggy Shumaker for winning the Rasmuson Foundation's top honor, The Distinguished Artist Fellowship! One of the Rasmuson Foundation's purposes is to provide artists the resources […]
Date: May 14, 2014
Congratulations to John Van Kirk! His debut novel, Song for Chance, has placed in the 2014 Eric Hoffer Award. Van Kirk's book received an Honorable Mention in the General Fiction […]
Date: October 3, 2011
In the sixty-fourth volume of The Hudson Review, Peter Makuck praises William Trowbridge's book, Ship of Fool. "William Trowbridge's Ship of Fool had me laughing out loud . . . […]
Date: September 30, 2011
“My favorite poems here include the title poem about a talisman stone that emblemizes the omnipresence of past time, ‘Something Old,’ ‘Someone’s Father,’ the bitterly ironic ‘Fish to Fry,’ ‘Trucks […]
Date: August 2, 2011
At first glance Jim Tilleys In Confidence seems to consist of calm, graceful poems of upper middle class domesticity, but turkey vultures wait in the yard and many stories have […]
Date: August 2, 2011
"Driven and powerful writing in play format, Among the Goddesses is an excellent read and a first pick for literary fiction and poetry collections." The full review can be seen
Date: August 1, 2011
Among the Goddesses is a bold experiment. Magical, mystical, musical, it charts a woman's journey that reverses the journey of Odysseus. What is it to be aided by goddesses, if […]
Date: August 1, 2011
In yet another variation of a vampire love story, Eidus (The War of the Rosens) introduces Lilith Zeremba, a college freshman who has declared herself, over and over, to be […]
Date: July 31, 2011
Fiction is subject to viruses, and the vampire bug strikes the unlikeliest writers. Witty and incisive Eidus (The War of the Rosens, 2007) has always drawn our attention to the […]
Date: July 31, 2011
In Jim Tilley's In Confidence, we see the internal and external workings of the world through a mature poets multifaceted lens. Crafting his poems with formal care, Tilley always aims […]
Date: July 30, 2011
It is rare to encounter a first book of poems as clear-eyed and accomplished as Jim Tilleys In Confidence. The press of everyday experience informs these deceptively calm poems, rippling […]
Date: May 9, 2011
Ship of … uh, what? This, after pipsqueak predecessors like, say, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Byron, Twain, and even a financial website called The Motley Fool? Readers love poets who run […]
