Red Hen Press

04/02/2025

Mark your calendar! Viet Book Fest 2025 is happening this weekend in Santa Ana!

Join the full-day events of panels and book sales celebrating Vietnamese diasporic literature. Red Hen author Andrew Lam will speak on Vietnamese American Voices.

🗓 Sunday, April 6 | 10 AM – 5 PM PDT
📍 Bowers Museum, 2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA
🎟 Tickets & info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/viet-book-fest-2025-tickets-1253662972699

We can’t wait to see you there!

An all-day event celebrating Vietnamese diasporic literature.

04/01/2025

City of Smoke and Sea by Malia Márquez is highlighted in Cole Reviews!

“A quick yet immersive read, packed with strong character development and world-building.”

📚 Check out the full review here: https://coletalksbooks.com/2025/03/31/a-genre-bending-mystery-with-mythological-flair/
📖 Happy Pub Day and grab your copy today: https://indiepubs.com/products/city-of-smoke-and-sea/

Queenie Rivers was raised by her grandparents in coastal Los Angeles. As she approaches thirty, her erratic lifestyle is forced back on course by a car accident and her grandmother’s intervention. But her recovery is interrupted by a break-in and Gran’s death. Gran’s last act was to set Queeni...

04/01/2025

✨ The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian gets high praise in the Armenian Weekly!

“We surrender to its fabled beauty, letting Kricorian’s storytelling dazzle while extracting meaning from the depths of trauma—so that we, too, may carry on.” —Nanore Barsoumian

📖 Read the review: https://armenianweekly.com/2025/02/25/love-and-exile-lock-horns-in-nancy-kricorians-beirut-war-novel/
📚 Happy Pub Day and order your copy: https://indiepubs.com/products/the-burning-heart-of-the-world/

In vivid, poetic prose, Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War. Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational trau...

04/01/2025

HAPPY PUB DAY 🥳 Wishing a very happy Publication Day to CITY OF SMOKE AND SEA by Malia Márquez.

Queenie Rivers was raised by her grandparents in coastal Los Angeles. As Queenie digs into Gran’s past for answers about the break-in, the murder, and the unnerving circumstances surrounding the restaurant and her new boss, she discovers that her grandmother, a Romani Holocaust survivor, kept many secrets, some of them otherworldly.

To read more and grab your own copy, visit here: https://bookshop.org/a/177/9780963952837

04/01/2025

HAPPY PUB DAY 🥳 Wishing a very happy Publication Day to THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD by Nancy Kricorian.

The novel tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War. Returning to the fabular tone of ZABELLE, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile.

To read more and grab your own copy, visit here: https://bookshop.org/a/177/9781636281933

03/30/2025

is officially over! What a fantastic time. Thanks to everyone who stopped on by; we had such an amazing time and are already planning ahead for next year!

03/30/2025

That’s a wrap! Cheers to the exciting end of AWP Los Angeles 🌴

But wait! This won’t be the last time we see you 😉

Let’s repeat this all over and celebrate again next year in Baltimore for !

03/30/2025

That’s it, ! Thank you for an incredible conference this year, and for all of your support now and always! This is Red Hen Press signing off 🎉 came, we saw, and we conquered. Safe travels home!

03/29/2025

POETRY ! Jason Schneiderman ends the chapter of AWP 2025! Catch Jason at the Red Hen booth 345 signing all their poetry collections with us 📚 Hope you are tagging us in your posts on all social media ✨

03/29/2025

PROSE ! Are you asking Aliah Wright and Adrianne Kalfopulou about their new books? Hope you got the chance to have them signed! Tag Red Hen in socials and use the hashtag to find what we are up to!✨

03/29/2025

POETRY ! This is it! The final poet of the day! Jason Schneiderman will be at the Red Hen booth, 345, to close out AWP season! Until then, hope you are chatting with Pamela Uschuak and Tina Schumann for their scheduled time RIGHT NOW ✨

03/29/2025

PROSE ! Aliah Wright and Adrianne Kalfopulou cannot wait to meet you! Chat with them about their newest books and writings at the Red Hen booth 345 ✨

03/29/2025

POETRY ! How’s it going, AWP attendees? The Red Hen booth, 345, is having a great time with Erin Hollowell and Diane Thiel! Your next poets to meet are Pamela Uschuak and Tina Schumann at 1:30PM! See you soon ✨

03/29/2025

PROSE ! Ask Madeleine Nakamura about the newest book in the CURSEBREAKERS series, ANGEL EYE. Chat with Madeleine NOW at the Red Hen booth 345! Come back for our last prose signers of the day, Aliah Wright and Adrianne Kalfopulou ✨

03/29/2025

POETRY ! Have you stopped by the booth yet? We’re at 345. Come on by! Gary Lemons and Lisa Krueger are here, and in THIRTY MINUTES, we’ll have Erin Hollowell and Diane Thiel ready to mingle with you all ✨

03/29/2025

PROSE ! Did you know Esinam Bediako and Malia Márquez have some new books! Talk to them about it NOW at the Red Hen booth 345 📕 And then ask those same topics with Madeleine Nakamura at 12:30PM ✨

03/29/2025

POETRY ! It’s noon! Hurry and eat lunch then head to Red Hen Press booth, 345 to meet Kim Dower and Anna V.Q. Ross! Then, in half an hour, catch Gary Lemons and Lisa Krueger ✨

03/29/2025

DON’T FORGET Red Hen’s Literary Panel featuring Will Alexander, Peggy Shumaker Alison Hawthorne Deming and Harryette Mullen is happening TODAY at 12:10 in Petree Hall C Level One 📍 See you there!