Our Mission
The mission of Red Hen Press is to publish works of literary excellence, to foster diversity, and to promote literacy in our local schools. We seek a community of readers and writers who are actively engaged in the essential human practice known as literature.
New from Fall 2021
CLIMATE FICTION
Sinking Islands
Cai Emmons
FICTION
Underneath
Lily Hoang
POETRY
Everything Never Comes Your Way
Nicole Stellon O’Donnell
MUSLIM AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY
New Moons
Edited by Kazim Ali
POETRY
I Was a Bell
M. Soledad Caballero
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IN THE NEWS
Op-Ed: A Writer (literally) loses her voice
I first notice something off about my voice on a balmy December evening at a reading in Sausalito in 2019 with several other writers. Read the full story in the Los Angeles Times
Publisher Weekly raves Jaye Viner’s Jane of Battery Park
“With a wholly original and eerily suspenseful story, Viner has created a modern society that’s just creepy enough to be believable. Fans of Margaret Atwood will eat this up.” Read the full review on Publishers Weekly
On a Non-Native English Speaker’s Creative Journey to Authenticity
Dariel Suarez Considers Language is a Vehicle for Culture.
As an undergraduate creative writing student, one piece of feedback kept appearing on the margin of my stories: awkward phrasing. Read the full story on LitHub
Why You Should Support Independent Literature
If you’re like me, you love to read. And reading is something that we do by ourselves. And writing, a lot of times, is also something that we do by ourselves. But, publishing is not something that we do by ourselves. I cannot tell you how much work went into creating [Primary Source and Hold Me Tight] and how many people, ideas, visions, and hands were involved. . . . If you want independent literature to exist, it is so important to support the community that makes it happen.
Jason Schneiderman, author of Primary Source and Hold Me Tight
Featured Authors
SAMPURNA CHATTARJI
Editor for The Red Hen Anthology of Contemporary Indian Writing
KAZIM ALI
Editor for the New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslim
JOHN WEIR
AWP’s Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction Winner, author of Your Nostalgia is Killing Me
CARLOS ALLENDE
Quill Prose Prize winner and author of Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love
AIMEE LIU
Author of Glorious Boy