Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age; Tie, pregnant and grieving; Mark, a young man poised to assume primacy; and Teller, an elder, holder of stories. As the devastating heat of summer grows, so does the poison in Teller’s injured leg and the danger of Tie’s imminent labor, food and water dwindling while the future becomes increasingly dependent on the words Sky gleans from the dead, stories pieced together from recycled knowledge, fragmented histories, and half-buried creation myths. From the Caves presents the past, present, and future in tandem, reshaping ancient and modern ideas of death and motherhood, grief and hope, endings and beginnings.
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Hasty Book List Interviews Thea Prieto, Author of FROM THE CAVES!
Third Place Books Hosts Kristen Millares Young, Author of SUBDUCTION, this Friday!
Red Hen author Kristen Millares Young will be speaking with Anne Liu Kellor via Zoom! The Zoom webinar will be taking place September 28th, 2021, 7 p.m EST.
Cai Emmons, author of SINKING ISLANDS, publicist Megan Beatie, interviewed on Instagram live on her behalf!
Medium’s latest Authors At Home segment features Cai Emmons author of SINKING ISLANDS!
This week’s spotlight Q&A is on Cai Emmons and her new novel, Sinking Islands, published by Red Hen Press on September 14, 2021. We chatted with Cai about her love of science, when she felt like she’d become a “real” author, and what she’s working on now.
Cai Emmons Guests Writes for Book Club Babble!
“One of the rewarding aspects of novel-writing is the opportunity it affords to travel the world. Never has this been more true for me than when I was writing and researching Sinking Islands. The premise of the novel grows from its prequel, Weather Woman, in which the protagonist, Bronwyn, has discovered she has the power to change the weather. Now, in Sinking Islands, she wants to gather a group of like-minded people from around the world to teach them her skill.”
Cai Emmons Sits Down for a Q&A With Deborah Kalb!
Cai Emmons Interviewed by Reader’s Entertainment!
SINKING ISLANDS author Cai Emmons has Article Featured on Lit Hub!
“In the winter of 2021, I completed a new novel within days of receiving a diagnosis of an untreatable terminal illness (ALS). The novel was written quickly—more quickly than my novels usually take and more quickly than I “approve” of writing a novel. It emerged like come Coleridge-like opium-induced rush of an idea that insisted on being chronicled, sprung from Trump outrage and pandemic isolation, both of which banished my left-brain, vetting, editor-self into obscurity.”
Thea Prieto, author of FROM THE CAVES, interview featured in Heavy Feather Review!
Thea Prieto’s debut From the Caves, winner of the Red Hen Novella Award, contains an entire post-apocalyptic world that is both empty and claustrophobic. In the core days of a blazing summer, four people fight for survival with only each other and their storytelling to drive them forward. Resources are catastrophically limited; the world is broken and hard, and so are the people in it. The characters start out feeling archetypal—mother, father, child, elder—but they develop into deeply realized people who, despite suffocating proximity with one another, seem to grieve alone. In this way, Prieto’s novella pairs the fundamental and material lack the characters endure with the abundant and infinite potential of the stories they tell, exploring how we use story to condense, express, and retain essential knowledge.
Cai Emmons Interview Featured in Writer’s Digest!
Authors Aimee Liu and Cai Emmons sit down for an intimate and wide-ranging conversation, from writing her new novel Sinking Islands, to finding inspiration during the pandemic and life in the throws of an incurable disease.
Diane Thiel’s ‘One Poem’ Featured on Terrain!
Author of Questions from Outer Space, Diane Thiel, had her poem featured in Terrain!
Jan Beatty, author of AMERICAN BASTARD, featured on The Rumpus in conversation with Julie Marie Wade!
Twice a week for a year, I walked from my day job at Carnegie Mellon down Fifth Avenue to Carlow University. An adjunct professor in the Women’s Studies department, I freshened up before class in a basement restroom. And then, on my way up the stairs, I passed Jan Beatty’s office. I knew Jan from poems of hers I had read in graduate school and also from her unforgettable voice on the radio; she hosted a poetry podcast called Prosody that I loved.
Managing Editor Kate Gale Profiled in ShoutOut LA
Managing Editor and co-founder of Red Hen Press Kate Gale was profiled in ShoutOut LA!
Eugene Weekly features Cai Emmons, author of SINKING ISLANDS and WEATHER WOMAN
LitQuake Panel Features Cecile Barlier, author of A GYPSY’S BOOK OF REVELATION!
How does writing a short story differ from writing a novel? Where do short story writers get their inspiration? How does writing short stories differ from writing longer works? What about short short stories? Four short story writers moderated by Olga Zilberbourg will talk about their art and craft.