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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!

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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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...
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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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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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...
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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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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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 🎉
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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.
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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
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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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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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...
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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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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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/
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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.
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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.
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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.
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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
(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
The cover of M. Soledad Caballero’s I Was a Bell: a drawing of a white-headed eagle with black and aqua feathers clutching a blue, orange, and green snake
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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
THE SEAGULL. @redhenpress.bsky.social
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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Happy Pub Week to StoryBoard 2026 Fellow Nita Noveno!
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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-...
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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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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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.
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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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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, Deputy and… Red Hen Press needs your support for We Need Your Help to Save Red Hen Press
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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. ⬇️
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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❣️
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Heavy Feather Review @hfr.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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...
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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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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Absolutely! We’re thrilled to publish Vincent’s newest collection out next year!! Help us continue publishing amazing stories like this one 📚
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The message is out! Thank you for sharing the news @erikpedersen.bsky.social
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Thank you for your support 🫶
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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
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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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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride Month 💕 We want to know, what is your favorite book by a queer author?
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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.
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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...
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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...
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Molly Fisk @mollyfisk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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.
Two copies of my new book Walking Wheel, resting against a napkin holder (that you cannot see) on a brown wooden table with half a blue cup containing half a latte in the lower left foreground. The book has a gold William Morris print as a background to the title in white letters, plus my name, plus Novel-in-Verse at the top in dark brown letters. Between the title and my name, there is a graphic of two old-fashioned-looking men carrying what seem to be 3 overlarge strawberries on a pole between them, surrounded by leaves and foliage.
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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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
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Paul Semel @paulsemel.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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
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The Opposites Game: Poems
Amazon.com: The Opposites Game: Poems: 9781636283661: Constantine, Brendan: Books
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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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...
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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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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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...
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Jeremy Wang-Iverson @jwi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Our new ad in Paris Review @redhenpress.bsky.social @fonografeditions.bsky.social
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Sixteen Rivers Press @sixteenrivers.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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
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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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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
On Poetry: March 2026. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @princetonupress.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social #booksky
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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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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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...
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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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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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...
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
“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
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Dan Vera @danvera.com · 09/02/2026
A poem for Carmen Miranda on her birthday, “All Oranges and Bananas Now” from my book Speaking Wiri Wiri ( @redhenpress.bsky.social) #poem #cliophrasis
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A poem for Carmen Miranda
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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...
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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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pine breaks (uncapitalized) @pinebreaks.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"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.
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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…
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Philly Chapbook Review @phillychapbook.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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...
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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...
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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...
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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…
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🔖 AWARDS SUBMISSIONS REMINDER ⁠ ⁠ 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. ⁠ ⁠ visit the Submission Guidelines here for details 📎⁠ redhenpress.submittable.com/submit?fun_c...
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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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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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 📚
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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 conference.awpwriter.org/index.cfm
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Red Hen Press @redhenpress.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
⭐New Audiobook Release ⭐ Listen to Tom Lutz’s newest noir novel, CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO, on your devices! Play it now on your favorite listening platform 🎧 redhen.org/book/chagos-...
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