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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 5d

Every photo tells a story of compassion, celebration, and a community of literary marvels . Take a look back at the magic of our past benefits!

Thinking of attending? Grab a ticket for this year's Benefit or join us virtually by following the link here: e.givesmart.com/events/J63/

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Coriolis @coriolisco.bsky.social · 9d

Professor #TomLutz is bringing a double-feature masterclass in literature and history to the West Coast. Join him for conversations spanning two worlds: cultural revolutionaries of the Roaring Twenties and the deadly serious world of modern espionage.

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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 5d

In our latest Substack post, our wonderful intern Belana Beeck reflects on her roots and how books helped her find belonging.

Read her heartfelt essay and join the conversation on Latinx identity, language, and literature.

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This Hispanic Heritage Month, Here is A Message to Argentinian and Peruvian Writers

by Belana Beeck

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations to Susan Rich on Blue Atlas, a stunning collection that troubles all the binaries around abortion. Couldn’t put it down. @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social #poetry #womenpoetry @redhenpress.bsky.social

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Philly Poetry Chapbook Review @phillychapbook.bsky.social · 26d

New #poetry #books from University of Iowa Press, @redhenpress.bsky.social, Tin House Books, Persea, @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, Nightwood Editions, Coach House Books, @boa-editions.bsky.social, New Directions & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

New Poetry Titles (9/16/25)

Check out new poetry books for the week of 9/16 from McGill-Queen's University Press, Plamen Press, Lithic Press, Black Sun Lit, Caitlin Press, University Of Iowa Press, Morgan James Publishing, Red H...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 18d

Read PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A BROWN MAN (@redhenpress.bsky.social) this #HispanicHeritageMonth!

This collection by Jose Hernandez Diaz “explores surreal prose poetry both in the suburbs and barrios of Los Angeles and the larger American landscape.”
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Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man - Red Hen Press

This collection consists of odes to the Mexican American, first-gen experience as well as surreal prose poems with cultural references and settings native to the Los Angeles area. The collection…

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 16d

9/12 #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts 💙📚 @adriennejs.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @barbicanpress.bsky.social @teresawong.bsky.social ‬ @arsenalpulp.bsky.social

Book cover for The Fifth Dimension by Martin Vopěnka, translated from the Czech by Hana Sklenkova (Barbican Press), with a photograph of a masculine-appearing person in t-shirt and cargo shorts, hanging in the air while holding up a white landscape against a deep blue background filled with stars. To support his family, a man submits himself to a solo science experiment in the High Andes. A cosmic adventure story of big ideas and murder. Your business is dead. It seems like a deal: leave your family behind in Prague for a year, isolate yourself in a research station in the Andes, and come home with a fortune. With a treatise on black holes for company, Jakob settles in at altitude. The air is thin. Strangers pass by on dangerous pilgrimage while his young wife and kids take life in his mind. One visitor provides a startling challenge to his sexuality. In mountain starkness, the big questions take shape: like what happens to love inside a black hole? Part murder mystery, part science fiction, part mystical quest, part mountain adventure, always remarkable. https://barbicanpress.com/book/the-fifth-dimension/

Book cover for A Professional Lola and Other Stories by E. P. Tuazon (Red Hen Press), with a woman in a red dress doing her makeup seated at a vanity, while wearing sunglasses. A Professional Lola is a collection of short stories that blend literary fiction with the surreal to present the contemporary Filipino American experience and its universal themes of love, family, and identity. A family hires an actress to play their beloved grandmother at a party; a couple craving Filipino food rob a panaderya; a coven of Filipino witches cast a spell on their husbands; a Lolo transforms into a Lola. These are just a few of the stories in the collection that represent its roster of stories beautifully grounded in culture and vividly and meticulously painted to make the absurd seem mundane and the commonplace, sinister. https://redhen.org/book/professional-lola/

Book cover for All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong (Arsenal Pulp), with two figures in ankle-deep water, one connected to the other by a length of red rope. Longlisted for Canada Reads 2025 and winner of 2 Alberta Literary Awards (the Memoir Award and the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction). Beginning with her mother's stroke in 2014, Teresa Wong takes us on a moving journey through time and place to locate the beginnings of the disconnection she feels from her parents. Through a series of stories - some epic, like her mother and father's daring escapes from communes during China's Cultural Revolution, and some banal, like her quitting Chinese school to watch Saturday morning cartoons - Wong carefully examines the cultural, historical, language, and personality barriers to intimacy in her family, seeking answers to the questions "Where did I come from?" and "Where are we going?" At the same time, she discovers how storytelling can bridge distances and help make sense of a life. https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/A/All-Our-Ordinary-Stories

Book cover for Skipping Stones by Marie-Andrée Auclair and Adrienne Stevenson (The BumplePuppy Press), with a stone in the act of skipping across a lake. Magic and wisdom gestate in the moments of our quotidian lives, ripening in our memories. With humour and insight, Marie-Andrée Auclair and Adrienne Stevenson reflect on the passage of time and its endless changes, exploring shifting relationships in our restless world. For more than a decade, these Ottawa writers shared their poems-in-progress, only to realize their work was a dialogue that must see print together. The result is the remarkable collaboration that is Skipping Stones, a cycle of poems that speaks to the living truths within us all. https://bppress.ca/product/skipping-stones-paperback/

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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 13d

Newest Substack post just dropped!

Follow along and learn more about our table hosts in the article “A Night of Literature & Celebration: Red Hen’s 31st Annual Benefit Gala”

Visit the link here to read the post: redhenpress.substack.com/p/a-night-of...

A Night of Literature & Celebration: Red Hen’s 31st Annual Benefit Gala

Red Hen is back for our 31st Benefit Gala!

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 21d

Read FLIGHT PLAN (@redhenpress.bsky.social) this #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth!

M. Soledad Caballero’s poetry collection “charts the trajectories of bodies and birds, navigating the dynamic interplay of past, present, and what happens in the in-between.”
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Flight Plan - Red Hen Press

Flight Plan charts the trajectories of bodies and birds, navigating the dynamic interplay of past, present, and what happens in the in-between. These lyrical poems map the aftermaths of cancer, the…

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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you to Wallpaper* USA 400 List for naming Nancy Kricorian as one of the creative activists of the year! Nancy is the author of THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD, (April 2025 Red Hen Press), and has been highlighted for her work with young writers in Gaza!

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The Burning Heart of the World

AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLER, ZABELLE • AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEWED, ALL THE LIGHT THERE WAS • In vivid, poetic prose, Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beiru...

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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 26d

✨Author Spotlight of the day ✨ Don't miss Ruth Irupé Sanabria's prize-winning poetry collection, BEASTS BEHAVE IN FOREIGN LAND, a powerful testament to a family's resilience after genocide and exile.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · Sep 12

New beauty from @laraehrlich.bsky.social and @redhenpress.bsky.social: saltwater soup for the rusalka soul.

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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you Chicago Review of Books for your interview with Lara Ehrlich on all things mermaids and sirens in her latest release BIND ME TIGHTER STILL! 🧜‍♀️

Read the full interview here:
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Bind Me Tighter Still

AUTHOR OF AWARD-WINNING, ANIMAL WIFE • WINNER OF CAI EMMONS FICTION AWARD, ERIC HOFFER AWARD, AND FOREWORD INDIE AWARD FINALIST • Lara Ehrlich presents her debut novel, BIND ME TIGHTER STILL “A gorge...

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · Sep 9

"I wanted to create a world...where the performers would stay in character, and behind the scenes, they could come out of character."

Out now: Elisa Shoenberger's interview w/ @laraehrlich.bsky.social on “Bind Me Tighter Still” (@redhenpress.bsky.social).
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Alluring Mermaids and Raging Sirens in Lara Ehrlich’s Bind Me Tighter Still - Chicago Review of Books

When my coworker casually mentioned working as a mermaid at a tiki bar out west, I was flabbergasted and mesmerized. So when I heard about Lara Ehrlich’s Bind Me Tighter Still, I had to read it. The s...

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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · Sep 10

Happy Pub Week to instructor Lara Ehrlich whose new novel Bind Me Tighter Still published this Tues. with @redhenpress.bsky.social.

Get your copy now, and grab your spot in Lara's upcoming class, Fairy Tales Gone Wrong: Twisting the Familiar into the Haunting, in person on 10/8

Genre Series: Fairy Tales Gone Wrong: Twisting the Familiar into the Haunting with Lara Ehrlich - StoryStudio Chicago

What dark truths do fairy tales hold, and how can we transform them into horror that resonates today? Participants will select a familiar tale and twist it into something haunting and new, examining…

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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · Sep 10

To our literary community…YOU’RE INVITED
The Red Hen Press Annual Gala is happening October 26th
Mingle with authors and learn more about the literary industry over dinner at The Grand Venue in LA 🍷
tickets here: e.givesmart.com/events/J63/

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Help Red Hen Press spread the word about Red Hen Press 31st Benefit Dinner Gala!

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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · Sep 8

Red Hen Press’s 31st Annual Benefit Dinner is on 10/26! 🍷 We are pleased to announce Kim Dower, Katie Ford, Lily Hoang, and Ron Koertge as one of our Silver Table Hosts this year!

For more information, visit the link here for available tables and tickets!
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · Sep 5

ONE WEEK AWAY! Tickets are still available for our literary salon at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco featuring Maxine Hong Kingston, Aimee Liu, Pete Hsu, and Lily Hoang! Get your livestream or in-person tickets now!

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Fall Literary Salon: Maxine Hong Kingston, Aimee Liu, Lily Hoang and Pete Hsu

Join the incomparable Maxine Hong Kingston, alongside bestselling and award-winning authors Aimee Liu and Pete Hsu, in a riveting conversation moderated by Lily Hoang at Commonwealth Club World Affair...

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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you Chicago Review of Books for featuring BIND ME TIGHTER STILL in your MUST-READ book list for September, labeling it as a "perfect reimagining of The Little Mermaid for the modern age." 🌊

🔗 Read the full feature and list here:
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Bind Me Tighter Still

AUTHOR OF AWARD-WINNING, ANIMAL WIFE • WINNER OF CAI EMMONS FICTION AWARD, ERIC HOFFER AWARD, AND FOREWORD INDIE AWARD FINALIST • Lara Ehrlich presents her debut novel, BIND ME TIGHTER STILL “A gorge...

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Philly Poetry Chapbook Review @phillychapbook.bsky.social · Aug 19

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 8/19 from Black Square Editions, Cardboard House Press, Flood Editions, @blacklawrence.bsky.social, @milkweededitions.bsky.social, Etruscan Press & @redhenpress.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

New Poetry Titles (8/19/25)

Check out new poetry books for the week of 8/19 from Black Square Editions, Cardboard House Press, Flood Editions, Black Lawrence Press, Milkweed Editions, Etruscan Press & Red Hen Press.

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Coriolis @coriolisco.bsky.social · Aug 19

(2/2) Forthcoming from @redhenpress.bsky.social, this book is a taut, international thriller set in the Indian Ocean, where assassins, soldiers, and shadowy operatives cross paths with deadly consequences.

#RedHenPress #BornSlippy #ThrillerReads #CurrentlyPromoting #CoriolisClient

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Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social · Aug 28

Featuring poet Vincent Antonio Rendoni in our summer issue tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/a...

Vincent is the author of A Grito Contest in the Afterlife ( @catamaranlit.bsky.social‬, 2022) and the forthcoming poetry collection Dead Chicano Mixtape @redhenpress.bsky.social, 2027).

A Haibun for White Center, Washington - Tahoma Literary Review

Smell that? Refried beans. Sorry to say, the secret ingredient is lard. Better watch your step. Human or animal, I can’t discern. Ignore the boards on

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Olivia Katrandjian @okatrandjian.bsky.social · Aug 28

"The Armenian Diaspora Quartet is a testament to how we carried on over generations and in far-flung communities around the globe in spite of an effort to erase us from the earth and from the annals of history and literature."
-- Nancy Kricorian

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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

An Interview with Nancy Kricorian. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @nancykric.bsky.social #booksky

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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social · Aug 28

Lorna Knowles Blake reviews Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen @redhenpress.bsky.social:

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The desire for a name that connects to ancestry is a central preoccupation…[The final three] poems are written in a form of Paschen’s devising: three columns of Osage, phonetic translation and English.

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Aug 28

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Naomi's Houses by Rosalie I. Tennison (@heritagehouse.bsky.social) & A Professional Lola and Other Stories by E. P. Tuazon (@redhenpress.bsky.social). Details = alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

Book cover for memoir Naomi's Houses by Rosalie I. Tennison (Heritage House Publishing), with a line drawing of a two-storey but small house on a wide prairie. In the crushing poverty of post-war rural Manitoba, Naomi, a mother of three, pushes through incredible obstacles to ensure her children’s security and future prosperity. Closely observed by one of those children, Naomi endures decades of financial struggle, male dominance, and the loss of her husband, while endeavouring to shelter her family as their circumstances change again and again. https://heritagehouse.ca/products/naomis-houses

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