Only a few weeks until Issue 55 is released! Meanwhile, we are gearing up for our special themed issue: CHAOS. Lauren Mickey interviews our poetry editor, Dorothy Chan, about boy bands, Nylon, and our upcoming issue.
Read MoreThe English translation of The Three-Body Problem, the first of a science fiction trilogy by Liu Cixin, was released on Tuesday by Tor Books.
Warsaw Ghetto, scrapbooks created by Polish author Jewish Mary Berg in 1945, disappeared in 1950, and have surfaced recently to shed light onto the Nazi genocide. The family of Ms. Berg has requested to cancel the auction of her diary.
Read MoreI’ve been obsessed with the Beat movement for a couple of years now, and I’ve always had a love for music. As I began to read Kerouac and Ginsberg, I started to notice similarities both in the style and the subject matter of the writing of some of my favorite artists from the 1960s and 70s. I got so wrapped up in this that I started to do a little bit of research to see if these ideas could be credited in any way.
Read MoreSo surely anyone on this blog has a love for lit magazines, especially Hayden’s Ferry Review. Our editors at HFR do too, and they were happy to share their personal favorites. Each one is its own unique publication, and great examples of the wider range of journals we all have from all over the country accessible to us thanks to the internet.
Read MoreHere at HFR, we were so pleased when judge Catherine Dent selected Amy Rossi as an honorable mention for our "500 for 500" Flash-Prose Contest. Amy's story is heartbreaking and surprising in its honesty. Enjoy!
Also, we are only a month away from our launch of Hayden's Ferry Review: Issue 55. It's looking awesome, and we're excited for you to see it.
Former Navy SEAL Team member Matt Bissonnette, writer of No Easy Day about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, is under criminal investigation for allegedly publishing classified material on his book.
Profile writer Clive James, current leukemia patient, continues to publish his poetry work as well as other projects such as Collected Poems scheduled to be published next year, aside from finishing another volume of memoirs.
Read MoreWriter Michel Faber, author of The Crimson Petal and the White, has announced The Book of Strange New Things, will not only be his new but also his last novel to write and publish.
Ali Mazrui, scholar and author of The Africans: A Triple Heritage passedaway on Oct. 12th at 81 years old. Meshack Asare is the 2015 recipient of the NSK Neustadt Prize granted by World Literature Today, a magazine of the University of Oklahoma, making him the frist African to win the award for Children’s Literature.
Read MoreThis week, Hayden’s Ferry Review had the opportunity to talk with writer Tom Leveen, an Arizona native writing in the competitive and demanding Young Adult genre. Instead of writing fantasy fiction, which is currently popular with teenagers and fans of YA lit, he bases his work in reality and focuses on real-world problems a teenager might experience. His stories reveal the complexity of seemingly minor issues in teenagers’ lives.
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