News
09.10
2024
RedBone Press ch-ch-ch-changes!
RedBone Press is winding down operations after 27 years. There is limited inventory on hand of many titles; if a title is sold out, it will not be reprinted. We strive to ship orders within 2-3 days of payment. Bookstores, please email directly re...
08.13
2022
bull-jean & dey/dem back!
Look for Sharon Bridgforth's long-awaited addition to the bull-jean stories: bull-jean & dey/dem back, coming Fall 2022 from 53rd State Press! Pre-order now! (Can you tell we're excited? :-)
03.01
2021
does your mama know? is back in stock!
Thanks for your patience. does your mama know? is back in stock! Order now!
09.20
2020
RedBone Press has moved South
ICYMI... RedBone Press has moved to New Orleans. We are open for business and filling orders, as is our distributor Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, CA. We are not yet fully settled in our new home, so are not looking at new manuscripts, but ...
05.25
2019
RedBone Press on summer hiatus!
RedBone Press is on hiatus for the summer. Order books in the interim through Small Press Distribution at www.spdbooks.org. We will reopen for business Sept. 4, 2019. Happy summer!
04.18
2018
Check out RedBone Press at Split This Rock
Split This Rock, a national poetry festival in Washington, DC, is here, and RedBone Press will be at the Split This Rock Book Fair on Saturday, April 21, 2018. More info here.
04.13
2018
Kohnjehr Woman is a Lammy finalist!
Kohnjehr Woman by Ana-Maurine Lara is a Lambda Literary Award finalist for this year's Best Lesbian Poetry category! See here for more information. Congratulations to Ana-Maurine Lara!
08.11
2017
Tagg profile of RedBone Press at 20
Lee Perine of MakersLab DC profiled RedBone Press publisher Lisa C. Moore for Tagg magazine here.
08.10
2017
20th anniversary of does your mama know? in DC!
Makers Lab and ZAMI at Busboys and Poets present a 20th anniversary celebration of does your mama know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories. Join RedBone Press founder and editor Lisa C. Moore, in conversation with Michelé Prince, bl...
03.16
2017
Lisa C. Moore at College of Staten Island March 29!
Join the conversation about black lesbian and gay publishing at College of Staten Island with Lisa C. Moore of RedBone Press! Happening 7 p.m. March 29, 2017. Hosted by the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, with co-sponsors Bertha Har...
03.16
2017
Samiya Bashir's Field Theories!
Samiya Bashir has a new book out! Field Theories (Nightboat Books, March 1, 2017) is already getting rave reviews. Here's an excerpt from Publisher's Weekly:
"In her third collection, Bashir (Gospel) displays an intriguingly multivalent approach ...
03.16
2017
Alexis De Veaux in New Orleans March 16, 2017!
Join Alexis De Veaux and Bernice McFadden for "Black Women Writers and the Reimagination of American Culture," a talk in the Amistad Research Center's Conversations in Color series. Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at Ashé Cultural Arts Cent...
01.31
2017
Alexis De Veaux at Western Washington University, Feb. 8, 2017
Join Alexis De Veaux, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Erin Sharkey and Junauda Petrus for "Rise Up: An Activist Conversation" on Feb. 8, 2017 at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. See here for more information. Yabo will be available at the ev...
09.20
2016
Alexis De Veaux in Austin, TX Sept. 23-24!
Please join Alexis De Veaux for a reading at Resistencia Bookstore, Friday, Sept. 23, 2016 at 7 p.m. Hosted by allgo, the queer people of color organization of Texas. A big thank you to allgo and to Red Salmon Arts for making this reading of Yabo ...
09.14
2016
Alexis De Veaux at Brooklyn Book Festival Sept. 17-18!
Check out Alexis De Veaux at the Brooklyn Book Festival this weekend! At 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, she's joined on a "Queer Conflicts" panel by James Downs, Sarah Schulman, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Timothy Stewart-Winter. (This is a Brook...
07.29
2016
Alexis De Veaux at OutWrite DC Aug. 6!
Join us on Aug. 6 for OutWrite DC! Alexis De Veaux, author of Yabo, is a panelist for three events, linked here; and RedBone Press is vending. OutWrite DC is free and open to the public!
06.24
2016
National Book Foundation's Pride Month List
In celebration of June, the month of Pride, the National Book Foundation has released it LGBTQ reading list for 2016. Included in this year's list is Yabo, by Alexis De Veaux. We couldn't be more proud!
06.04
2016
Lisa C. Moore named Lambda Literary's LGBT Publishing Pro of 2015
Read all about it here.
05.03
2016
Sharon Bridgforth is a Doris Duke Awardee!
Congratulations to RedBone Press author Sharon Bridgforth on receiving a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award in Theatre! We're so proud and happy for her!