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“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.

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A poem for Carmen Miranda YouTube video by Dan Vera

A poem for Carmen Miranda on her birthday, “All Oranges and Bananas Now” from my book Speaking Wiri Wiri ( @redhenpress.bsky.social) #poem #cliophrasis

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…

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
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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…

"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.

New Poetry Titles (3/3/26) Check out new poetry books for the week of 3/3 from Milkweed Editions, Persea, Fordham University Press, Veliz Books, Green Writers Press, Nymeria Publishing, CavanKerry Press, RIZE, Counterpoint, Wes...

New #poetry #books from @milkweededitions.bsky.social, @fordhampress.bsky.social, RIZE, @weslpress.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, @upittpress.bsky.social, Knopf, Etruscan Press, @redhenpress.bsky.social & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Talking to the Wolf - Red Hen Press A failed rockstar, an awarded scientist, a work-obsessed misanthrope, and a ghost, whose untimely death ruptured the once-solid quartet, steel themselves for their thirty-fifth high school reunion…

Pick up TALKING TO THE WOLF by Rebecca Chace for #WomensHistoryMonth!

Set “during a surprise snowstorm in New York City,” this @redhenpress.bsky.social novel is “a lyrical exploration of female friendship, friend breakups, and reconciliations across decades.” redhen.org/book/talking...

Red Hen Press Submission Manager Red Hen Press is an independent, nonprofit press that publishes about twenty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry every year. We’re looking for novels, memoir, creative nonfiction, hybrid works, a...

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There is currently 1 Red Hen Press Award open for submissions.⁠⁠

⭐️ Ann Petry Award: March 31, 2026
Award is $3,000 + publication by Red Hen Press. ⁠
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KILL DICK by @lukelikesglue was mentioned by Jennette McCurdy as her most eager book to read this year on Elle Magazine 📖

Officially out April 14th - - Preorder your copy wherever you grab your books 📚

See you at AWP 🖊️

Stay tuned for more Red Hen Press news at this year's AWP conference in Baltimore!

For more information about this year’s conference, visit
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⭐New Audiobook Release ⭐

Listen to Tom Lutz’s newest noir novel, CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO, on your devices!

Play it now on your favorite listening platform 🎧
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ATTENTION READERS 📣 Goodreads is giving away 100 copies of KILL DICK by Luke Goebel!

There will be 100 winners, AKA your odds of winning are higher than ever. The contest is now open and closes on February 7th at 11:59 PM PST.

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Congratulations to the winner of our 2025 Women's Prose Prize Award, Allison Field Bell! Her collection of stories, BODIES OF OTHER WOMEN, will be forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2028!

Bind Me Tighter Still Holiday Bundle Bind Me Tighter Still makes for a great holiday gift! Treat your loved ones to a special offer that includes: 1 exclusive postcard 1 elegant bookmark 1 signed sticker bookplate 1 limited edition Siren...

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BIND ME TIGHTER STILL by Lara Ehrlich is the perfect holiday gift 🎁

Only a limited amount, so don’t wait! Head over to the Red Hen Press merch site to grab this exclusive holiday gift bundle ♥️

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Your Kindness Today Can Support the Future of Books This Giving Tuesday—Give a Little, Save a Story

Help us publish diverse stories this Giving Tuesday 🌟

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We’re not going to change.

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!

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🗓️ Friday, November 21: 10AM - 7PM - FREE!
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Under Nushagak Bluff - Red Hen Press Against the backdrop of the rising commercial fishing industry in an Alaskan Native village, Under Nushagak Bluff is a powerful mid-century tale of women, love, loss, resilience, and the unexpected strength...

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

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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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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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Red Hen Press Bookshop Red Hen Press is committed to publishing works of literary excellence, supporting diversity, and promoting literacy in our local schools. We seek a community of readers and writers who are actively en...

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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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Blood Wolf Moon - Red Hen Press In her riveting sixth poetry collection, Blood Wolf Moon, Elise Paschen explores the story lines of her Osage heritage. The core of the book grapples with a dark period of American history, “The…

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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Red Hen Press Awards - Red Hen Press Discover Red Hen Press's literary awards, including the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, Ann Petry Award, Cai Emmons Fiction Award, and Quill Prose Award—offering prizes and publication. Learn how to su...

🔖 AWARDS SUBMISSIONS REMINDER ⁠
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There are currently 3 Red Hen Press open submissions for awards.⁠
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⭐️ Quill Queer Prose Award: November 30, 2025⁠
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⭐️ Cai Emmons Fiction Award: January 15, 2026⁠

⭐️ Ann Petry Award:
March 31, 2026
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visit the Submission Guidelines here: redhen.org/awards/