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Thank you to Erin Hollowell for interviewing Susan Campbell for Alaska Book Week! Susan reads an excerpt of poetry and discusses the writing and publication process! Watch the full interview here 🎥🌟: Secure a copy here 🛍️🌟:

✨BOOK FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT✨ We are so excited to announce that we’ll be attending and vending at the 2026 Portland Book Festival!! The festival runs from November 2-8 but we will be present all day on November 7.

If you are a Portland resident or traveling to the city, and love everything book related, then head on over to the Portland Book Festival for some bookish fun! Not only enjoy the rest of the festival, but stop by our booth to say hi and view our wonderful catalog of titles.

Where we’ll be 🐓: Kridel Grand Ballroom / Booth 36 Click to link to learn more about the festival:

Congratulations to The Los Angeles Review 2025 Award Winners and Runner Ups 🎊 Find the published pieces online next week! For more info on the LAR submissions, visit the link in bio. / visit the webpage here: Big congrats to the everyone 👏

Thank you to Publishers Weekly for reviewing DESIRE LINES by Kristen Millares Young! They describe the memoir as a "dazzling look at the mysteries of motherhood." Read the full review here 📖🌟: Secure a copy here 📚🛍️:

Meet the writers behind the stories! 🇵🇭📖 In celebration of Filipino American History Month, we’re spotlighting Filipino American authors from the Red Hen Press community and the books that bring their histories and perspectives to the page. Swipe to meet the authors! 🐔

Thank you to Positively Filipino for reviewing Marivi Soliven's TAXI DANCER! Writing, “Readers are drawn into a world that stretches from dusty asparagus fields to the steamy dance halls.” Read here 📚✨: Secure a copy here 🛍️🌟:

This Wednesday, don't miss it! Head on over to Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon to join Kristen Millares Young with Vanessa Micale and Devon Fredericksen on October 28th at 7 P.M. Order a copy of DESIRE LINES from Powell’s to participate in the conversation!

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Thank you to The American Scholar for profiling Helen Benedict and her latest novel, THE SOLDIER'S HOUSE! Benedict says, “I don't think an honest war story can have a happy ending.” Read the feature here 📖: Secure a copy here 🛍️:

A huge thank you to Ms. Magazine for featuring Kristen Millares Young's DESIRE LINES in their October 2026 “Reads for the Rest of Us” roundup! Read the roundup here 📚✨: Secure a copy here 🛍️🌟:

David Mason gets candid with Tim Hunt over poems and poetry. The conversation continues in two parts. Click the links to read and listen:

Thank you to A Few More Words for reviewing Marivi Soliven’s TAXI DANCER! Saying, “Taxi Dancer firmly immerses us in the sights, sounds, and racial strain of 1930s California.” Read the full review here 📖: Secure a copy here 🛍️:

Thank you to America Magazine for reviewing Helen Benedict's THE SOLDIER'S HOUSE! Writing, “Benedict has an ear for poetry, and she infuses this novel with metaphors, parallelism and irony.” Read the review 📖✨: Secure a copy 🛍️:

Thank you to University of Washington Magazine for featuring Kristen Millares Young's DESIRE LINES! Saying, “what it means to keep going, to assimilate pain into the body as a condition of living.” Read the feature: Secure a copy:

One week to go! If you’re in Portland, Oregon, head over to Powell's City of Books to catch Kristen Millares Young in conversation with Vanessa Micale and Devon Fredericksen on October 28th at 7 P.M. Grab a copy of DESIRE LINES from Powell’s ahead of time! Link down below!

Happy Pub Day to D.C. Frost’s second book to her Detective DJ Arias Mystery series A SHADOW OF JAGUARS 🥳!!

“...Frost's story is so much more than a whodunit—it gives voice to the immigrants who power the powerful, is twisty enough to tie you in knots, exciting enough to keep you guessing, and smart enough to make you think.” — I.S. Berry, author of THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW

Check out A SHADOW OF JAGUARS here: #redhenpress #novelseries