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!
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 · 2mo 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.
Here’s my prose poem “THE CITY IS DEAD WITHOUT YOUR PIROUETTE OF A SMILE” from my book “Portrait of an Artist as a Brown Man.” @redhenpress.bsky.social
Started reading Brendan Constantine's "The Opposites Game: Poems." amzn.to/3PfYM6d 📖🖊️ Like the previous book of his #poems I read, "Calamity Joe," this has a bunch of good ones so far. #books #reading #poetry @redhenpress.bsky.social #BookSky #PoetrySky
The Opposites Game: Poems
Amazon.com: The Opposites Game: Poems: 9781636283661: Constantine, Brendan: Books
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Today our newsletter readers received a preview of the Summer 2026 issue—a poem by David Mason, who will read from his new book, COLD FIRE (@redhenpress.bsky.social) in Tulsa on April 9: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/a-history
This @redhenpress.bsky.social memoir is “a lyrical reclaiming and an insistence by the author that she own the rights to her story, which is American flavored with an unreleasing elsewhere.” Read Laila Halaby’s THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth: redhen.org/book/the-wei...
The Weight of Ghosts - Red Hen Press
The Weight of Ghosts is a lyrical memoir by an author struggling with the death of her older son and sifting through the details of her life. The Weight of Ghosts is a circling of grief following the…
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War and forgiveness, can they ever co-exist? Let's discuss. Free event at Book Culture on W. 112 Street, but good to register here. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... Book is available from your local store or to pre-order redhen.org/book/the-sol...
Shout out to friend of Sixteen Rivers Press Molly Fisk who has two poems up in Vox Populi today! She has a new book dropping in April too: WALKING WHEEL published by Red Hen Press. Mollyology abides! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetnews @mollyfisk.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social
Molly Fisk: Lapsed Unitarian in Mormon Country
Some bird shat a mulberry seed whose skyward reach is nine feet now at least and equally wide, for perfect shade.
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On Poetry: March 2026. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @princetonupress.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social #booksky
On Poetry: March 2026 | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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This #WomensHistoryMonth, read Adriana Paramo’s KEEPING QUIET: SIXTEEN ESSAYS ON SILENCE (@redhenpress.bsky.social)! These essays cover “a wide range of angles and experiences,” including “an exploration of IBM’s anechoic chamber—the world’s quietest place.” redhen.org/book/keeping...
Keeping Quiet: Sixteen Essays on Silence - Red Hen Press
In Keeping Quiet, Páramo has collected essays addressing what it is like to live in a world of silence or the absence thereof. This collection covers a wide range of angles and experiences, from an…
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Reminiscing on the past winners of the Ann Petry Award ⭐ BLOOD ON THE BRAIN by Esinam Bediako won the 2022 award and was published Sept 2024 The 2026 Ann Petry Award seeks to publish prose literature by Black authors and close on March 31st! Submit here: redhen.org/ann-petry-aw...
“Through her exploration of the female body and the stories and myths we create around it, Pollokoff illuminates the perils women negotiate every day.” Excerpt from review of Abi Pollokoff’s night myths • • before the body from @redhenpress.bsky.social. buff.ly/aJtFL35 #writingcommunity #writersky
A poem for Carmen Miranda on her birthday, “All Oranges and Bananas Now” from my book Speaking Wiri Wiri ( @redhenpress.bsky.social) #poem #cliophrasis
A poem for Carmen Miranda
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Read Juliana Lamy’s YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND, published by @redhenpress.bsky.social! This is a Firecracker Award–winning short story collection “in which Haitian men, women, and children … bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities.” #BlackHistoryMonth redhen.org/book/you-wer...
You Were Watching from the Sand - Red Hen Press
A stylistically and conceptually daring collection that winds from fantastical horror to mischievous domestic realism and always keeps in its sharp, compassionate view the material, spiritual, and…
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"Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel 'Kill Dick' parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms..." Read my review at Foreword Reviews: tinyurl.com/2aru257s. #Books #bookreview #booksky Published @redhenpress.bsky.social.
Review of Kill Dick
Kill Dick: Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel "Kill Dick" parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms. Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and…
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