Red Hen Press
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The Biggest Little Press in LA 🌞 ✦ Publishing 25-30 books annually ✦ Accepting submissions year-round ✦ WRITERS: We have 5 literary awards. Enter now!
Happy Hispanic and Latine Heritage Month! Let’s choose understanding over judgement, connection over division and let love be louder than hate. Start your new read of M. Soledad Caballero's FLIGHT PLAN, bookshop.org/a/177/978163...
Flight Plan: Poems
AUTHOR OF AWARD-WINNING I WAS A BELL and FINALIST for the 2025 Julie Suk AwardM. Soledad Caballero explores the complexities of the body, delving into themes such as cancer, memory, and love in a lyri...
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Celebrating the release of DANCING AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Michelle Sacks 🥳!! Check out your own copy here bookshop.org/a/177/978163...
Dancing at the End of the World: Novel-In-Stories
"A gripping story of two sisters struggling to forget an unspeakable horror in postwar Berlin, a loveless city where survival, love, and lust intertwine with painful intricacy."--Weina Dai Randel, the...
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Happy Hispanic Heritage Month ♥️ Stay with us all month long as we spotlight our amazing Hispanic authors and their books ✨ Shout out your favorite Red Hen Press author for Hispanic Heritage Month in the comments below ⬇️ Day one starts now 🎉
A story about love, murder, and mystery… Marivi Soliven’s new historical fiction novel, TAXI DANCER, is based on a true and tragic murder lying within San Diego's cultured history, and is in response to Depression-era California laws criminalizing interracial marriage.
HAPPY PUB DAY 🥳!! Wishing a Happy Publication Day to NINE GRUDGES: THE SPITEFUL ORIGINS OF THE HAPPIEST DYKE on Earth by Molly McCloy!! Check out NINE GRUDGES: bookshop.org/a/177/978163... #redhenpress #memoir #biography
Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth
Award-winning debut author, four-time Moth StorySLAM winner, and Lambda Literary Fellow"Funny, soulful, absolutely unafraid to look life in the eye, Molly McCloy's tough and tender voice is addictive....
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Join Marivi Soliven for a presentation and book signing of her new book TAXI DANCER at the San Diego Central Library on October 6th! Buy the book: indiepubs.com/products/tax... RSVP: sandiego.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=326...
Love, Murder and Taxi Dancers in the Stingaree District, 1935
Welcome to the electrifying underworld of San Diego’s Depression-era taxi dance halls, where a dance could cost you a dime, a chance at romance, or a bullet in the back!The Library Shop and...
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Hello readers and writers! Red Hen Press has been receiving ongoing reports of impersonations of our staff via email. Please verify emails by checking the Red Hen Press staff webpage here redhen.org/staff-and-board/
Happy Pub Day to Jim Tilley’s newest poetry collection WHEN GODOT ARRIVED 🥳!! Pressed with matters of politics, ecology, and the environment, WHEN GODOT ARRIVED continues the segment of the author’s interpersonal experiences as a poet and mathematician with the world and other people.
Based on a true story… “If we can’t marry white girls, we can at least dance with them.” In response to Depression-era California laws that criminalized interracial marriage, Filipinos established taxi dance halls where they could mingle with American women.
One week until Jim Tilley’s newest poetry collection, WHEN GODOT ARRIVED, is officially released! A thought-provoking poetry collection made up of eighty-one free verse sonnets exploring interpersonal relationships, the environment, and politics.
(18/61) “cement graves in stadiums, / purple and black of bodies / disappeared after electricity, / the General’s timid smile radiating / death in that other country.” — @msoledadcaballero.bsky.social, “Losing Spanish” (I Was a Bell) @redhenpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #TheSealeyChallenge
Happy Pub Week to StoryBoard 2026 Fellow Nita Noveno!
Red Hen Press@redhenpress.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappy Publication Day to MUD ON THE MOON by Nita Noveno, brought to you by Red Hen Press! 🥳 Noveno explores her Filipino father’s legacy after he immigrated to America in 1928 to seek better opportunities. Check out MUD ON THE MOON here: bookshop.org/p/books/mud-...
Happy Publication Day to MUD ON THE MOON by Nita Noveno, brought to you by Red Hen Press! 🥳 Noveno explores her Filipino father’s legacy after he immigrated to America in 1928 to seek better opportunities. Check out MUD ON THE MOON here: bookshop.org/p/books/mud-...
Mud on the Moon: A Hybrid Memoir
"A beautiful story of a daughter in the act of knowing her father. . . . stitching and restitching memories, records, artifacts, history, mystery, and fiction."--Ananda Lima, author of Mother/landMud ...
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Independent publishing is facing an increasingly difficult era. When independent presses disappear, we don't just lose publishers…we lose opportunities for new voices to be heard. We lose stories that inspire, preserve, and challenge ourselves and the world around us.
Today we are asking our community… Has a Red Hen Press book ever moved you? If a Red Hen book has ever inspired you, challenged you, comforted you, or opened your eyes to a new perspective, please consider making a donation or sharing our fundraiser. gofund.me/e1861b737
QUEER LITERATURE MATTERS BECAUSE REPRESENTATION MATTERS 🗣️ Queer stories are needed. Help us keep them in the world. 💌 Share this post with friends and family 📣 Keep spreading Red Hen Press’s mission with your community ♥️ Donate to our GoFundMe gofund.me/e1861b737
Incredible news: we've officially reached over $100,000 in donations 🎊 Thank you for all the support! Whether you donated, shared our campaign, bought a book, sent an encouraging message, or supported us in other ways, we are so grateful.
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A message from Percival Everett, author of SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY and JAMES: “Hi, I’m Percival Everett, and I’m here to talk about the importance of independent publishers and the arts in our culture. ⬇️
Red Hen Press has been the start for some amazing writers. They’ve published multiple books and won awards for their stories. They’ve joined communities and built their readership. They’ve celebrated milestones and gushed about their books at festivals. Help us support our authors’ first times❣️
Go on, have a taste. This electric kool-aid is from 2016🧃 Fiction Review: @alkratz.bsky.social Reads Luke Goebel’s New Novel Kill Dick @redhenpress.bsky.social #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/06/08/k...
Fiction Review: Al Kratz Reads Luke Goebel’s New Novel Kill Dick
Readers entering the world of Luke Goebel’s new book, Kill Dick, should prepare to face the proverbial Good News and Bad News. On the downside, it’s a trip to the fall of 2016 when the “orange haze…
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Absolutely! We’re thrilled to publish Vincent’s newest collection out next year!! Help us continue publishing amazing stories like this one 📚
Vincent Rendoni@warshingtonian.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis press has been a true believer of my weird, gothy, Mexican-American poetry. I support them. I hope you can do the same.
Red Hen Press Needs Your Help. For 32 years, we have published extraordinary poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Today, that work is under serious financial threat. We're asking our community to help save Red Hen Press by donating to our GoFundMe. Thank you for believing in us ❤️ gofund.me/6fe8abee1
Donate to We Need Your Help to Save Red Hen Press, organized by Red Hen Press
A Message from Kate Gale, Publisher and CEO, and Tobi Harper Petrie, Depu… Red Hen Press needs your support for We Need Your Help to Save Red Hen Press
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Happy Pride Month 💕 We want to know, what is your favorite book by a queer author?
IMPORTANT: We were recently alerted to a scam involving impressions of our acquisitions staff via email. We will only communicate using email [at] redhen.org. If you have been contacted about publication by any non-Red Hen email, it is not legitimate, and should be disregarded/reported as spam.
HOT OFF THE PRESS 📰 Luke Goebel's debut novel KILL DICK was listed as #25 on the Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers! Congratulations to Luke and his bestselling novel KILL DICK - - - Don't miss out! Catch the release here: redhen.org/book/kill-di...
HAPPY PUB DAY to WALKING WHEEL by Molly Fisk. To read more and grab your own copy, heck out WALKING WHEEL here: indiepubs.com/products/wal...
If you ever need someone to photograph your new book and make sure it matches whatever you're drinking, DO let me know, darlings... @redhenpress.bsky.social has produced this lovely hardcover version of Walking Wheel.
