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As our mission goes→ Red Hen Press is dedicated to publishing works of literary excellence, fostering diversity, and promoting literacy in our local schools.
With supporters like you, we get to keep championing writers whose stories shape the world 💛
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Holiday book haul, anyone? 🎁
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Welcome to another Holiday Countdown! We are introducing 7 Days of Fiction straight to your feed 📩
Day 5 of fiction is GLORIOUS BOY by Aimee Liu ✨
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MIAMI! See you on SUNDAY!
📍 Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
🗓️ Friday, November 21: 10AM - 7PM - FREE!
Saturday, November 22: 10AM - 7PM - $12 Admission
Sunday, November 23: 10AM - 6PM - $12 Admission
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Mia C. Heavener’s UNDER NUSHAGAK BLUFF (@redhenpress.bsky.social) is “a generational saga of strong, stubborn Yup’ik women living in a village that has been divided between the new and the old.”
Read the novel this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth: redhen.org/book/under-n...
Welcome to another Holiday Countdown! We are introducing 7 Days of Fiction straight to your feed 📩
Today’s highlight is JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner ✨
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Welcome to another Holiday Countdown! We are introducing 7 Days of Fiction straight to your feed 📩
Today’s fiction highlight is DEAR EDNA SLOANE by Amy Shearn ✨
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This season is about stories ♥️
You can gift the joy of independent literature to readers and writers during this year’s Giving Tuesday on December 2nd.
See how you can support Red Hen Press today 💛
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Book cover for Dwelling by Allison Joseph (Red Hen Press). Dwelling is the latest collection from Allison Joseph, whose wise words, narrative passion, and lyrical intensity have made her a fan favorite with audiences of all ages. In Dwelling, Joseph is concerned with the inevitable search for home—as a woman, as a person of color, and as a poet. Her poems take on subjects from the serious and sublime to the humorous and ironic. Whatever her subject, Joseph is humane, humble, hilarious, and high-spirited. This poet goes wherever her imagination thrives—dwelling among us and beyond us. https://redhen.org/book/dwelling/
Book cover for The Great Lunenburglary by Bryn Pottie (Moose House). In 1922 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, two friends with dreams of breaking the mould of Maritime music find themselves entangled in the most daring heist in Nova Scotian history. This rollicking farce combines wild adventures with trenchant comments on current events. Join the greatest caper Nova Scotia has ever seen! https://www.moosehousepress.com/product-page/the-great-lunenburglary
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Dwelling by @allisonpoet.bsky.social (@redhenpress.bsky.social): redhen.org/book/dwelling/ & The Great Lunenburglary by Bryn Pottie (@moosehousepress.bsky.social): www.moosehousepress.com/product-page... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity #bookish
18.11.2025 12:28 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It’s the ULTIMATE gift guide for readers who ❤️ a book club favorite.
IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I'D CARRY YOU HOME by Pete Hsu
I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS by Yuvi Zalkow
SINKING ISLANDS by Cai Emmons
UNSEEN CITY by Amy Shearn
TEA BY THE SEA by Donna Hemans
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It’s the ULTIMATE gift guide for readers!
For the friend who reads for the thrill 🔪😈
NOW YOU OWE ME by Aliah Wright
THE LAST WOMEN OF AZALEA COURT by Ellen Meeropol
URSULA LAKE by Charles Harper Webb
THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD by Molly Olguin
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It’s the ULTIMATE gift guide for readers 📚
Today we are sharing books of poetry for a quiet evening 🫖🌝
❇️ THE NIGHTLIFE by Elise Paschen
❇️ STILL WATER CARVING LIGHT by Peggy Shumaker
❇️ LIFTING THE ISLAND by David Eggleton
❇️ WALKING WHEEL by Molly Fisk
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Elise Paschen’s BLOOD WOLF MOON grapples with “a dark period of American history, ‘The Reign of Terror,’ when outsiders murdered individual members of the Osage for their oil headrights.”
Read the @redhenpress.bsky.social collection this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth:
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We just heard “All I Want for Christmas is You” so we’re taking the cue and OFFICIALLY sharing our holiday book recommendations with you all!
Stay tuned all season long as we recommend books and gift guides for every reader in your life!
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🔖 AWARDS SUBMISSIONS REMINDER
There are currently 3 Red Hen Press open submissions for awards.
⭐️ Quill Queer Prose Award: November 30, 2025
⭐️ Cai Emmons Fiction Award: January 15, 2026
⭐️ Ann Petry Award:
March 31, 2026
visit the Submission Guidelines here: redhen.org/awards/
USA Today feature of our upcoming book KILL DICK by Luke Goebel
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Hey writers! Looking for a writing retreat? We got you!
Learn about the Studio Luce and Casa Zala writing retreat hosted by Red Hen Press founder Dr. Kate Gale here
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9 more days until the Benefit Gala!!
We’re so excited to celebrate with you all 🥳
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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!
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A graphic promoting an upcoming book tour for Tom Lutz. The image features a headshot of Tom Lutz looking toward the viewer. To the right is a list of five California tour dates: October 6 at Skylight Books, October 7 at The Town Club, October 9 at Diesel, A Bookstore, October 10 at Vroman's Bookstore, and October 14 at Chevalier's Books, and October 19 at Red Hen Press. The graphic is predominantly purple and pink, with the Coriolis logo at the top and the text "...more to come!" at the bottom.
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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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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Cover of Blue Atlas by Susan Rich
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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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...
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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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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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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”
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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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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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