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03/07/2026

We're very excited!
Our reissue of Hazel Hawthorne's "Salt House" is featured on this Lost Ladies of Lit podcast! It's a great discussion about Hazel, her 1934 novel, and her time out in the Provincetown dunes with other writers and artists.
Lost Ladies of Lit co-hosts, Kim Askew and Amy Helmes, spoke with Provincetown Arts board member Livia Tenzer and Hazel Hawthorne archives steward Allison Bass-Riccio.
Check out the podcast here: https://www.lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/hazel-hawthorne-salt-house-with-allison-bass-riccio-and-livia-tenzer
"Salt House" can be purchased on our website, www.provincetownarts.org/bookstore

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“Queen of the Dunes” Hazel Hawthorne was a Cape Cod legend who wrote about The Road nearly two decades before her one-time tenant, Jack Kerouac. A uniquely feminine precursor to Beat literature, her novel Salt House captures Bohemian life amid the sand dunes of Provincetown. Though largely dismi...

03/06/2026

An anthology like no other!
Pick it up at provincetownarts.org/bookstore !

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03/06/2026

Provincetown Arts Press is attending the 2026 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Baltimore! John Waters is the keynote speaker!

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12/24/2025

We're very honored!
Cita Press has selected Provincetown Arts Press's edition of Hazel Hawthorne's Salt House as one of its "Favorite Reads of 2025"!
Cita Press focuses on publishing, showcasing and promoting works written by women.
You can order a copy today at provincetownarts.org/bookstore
Or, if you're on the Outer Cape, stop in at one of our local bookstores and ask for Salt House!

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12/19/2025

As we approach the end of our 40th anniversary year, we're reflecting with gratitude on the vital role our community plays in the success of Provincetown Arts. Your contributions help us continue publishing award-winning works and support local artists, and ensure that the arts community in Provincetown and across the Cape continues to thrive.

Please join us in this celebration of creativity and ensure our legacy for years to come. Support the Provincetown Arts Press 40th anniversary fundraising campaign today with a year-end, tax-deductible gift!
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12/02/2025

Since 1985, Provincetown Arts Press has worked to support and celebrate the arts through the publication of books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, architecture, and art, and our annual magazine, Provincetown Arts.

For four decades, our work has been a labor of love for the arts community. We can't do it without you. Please help make sure that Provincetown Arts thrives for another forty years with a tax-deductible gift to the press this Giving Tuesday...and pick up holiday gifts for all the art and book lovers on your list at www.provincetownarts.org . ♥️

The 40th Anniversary issue of Provincetown Arts is now available to purchase in our online bookstore.

11/28/2025

11/17/2025

Warm up with some great stories! Pick up the 40th anniversary issue today!

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11/12/2025

Pick up the 40th anniversary issue today!

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10/18/2025

Salt House presentation
Allison Bass-Riccio and her interns from Cheshire Academy in Connecticut will read from Hazel Hawthorne’s novel Salt House and talk about their part in readying the book, published by Provincetown Arts Press, for publication, at 5:30 pm on October 21 at Provincetown Public Library. They’ll also share their work in organizing Hazel Hawthorne’s archives.
See this week’s stories in The Provincetown Independent and the Cape Cod Times (October 16 issue).

Links here to Independent story and library information flier. Books will be available for purchase at the library event and are also available at local bookstores.

https://provincetownindependent.org/arts-minds/2025/10/15/the-salty-and-spicy-life-of-a-provincetown-bohemian/

https://www.provincetownlibrary.org/events/the-hazel-project-a-re-release-of-hazel-hawthornes-salt-house

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Back to All Events The Hazel Project: A Re-Release of Hazel Hawthorne’s “Salt House” Tuesday, October 21, 2025 5:30 PM 6:30 PM Provincetown Public Library 356 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA, 02657 United States (map) Google Calendar ICS

09/08/2025

Allison Bass-Riccio, steward of the Hazel Hawthorne archives, read from Provincetown Arts Press’s re-issue of Salt House as part of an event at the Mary Heaton Vorse House Friday, Sept. 5. During the event, called “Naming SALLY” and put on by the SALLY Project, audience members presented short biographies of Provincetown women and shared their own stories of women in the community.
The SALLY Project uses art to activate the public memory of women, like Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman inherited by Thomas Jefferson, whose lives have been erased or marginalized.
The event took place in conjunction with an art exhibition at the Vorse House called “On the Edge,” which focuses on diversity, equity and inclusion and will hang through Sept. 21.
You can buy a copy of Salt House at local bookstores or at provincetownarts.org.

Photos by Livia Tenzer
Allison Bass-Riccio reads from Salt House.
Sasha Chavchavadze, a multi-media artist and one of the founders of the SALLY Project.

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08/25/2025

Sharing a great review by Hana Rivers in The Massachusetts Review of our re-issue of Salt House, the long-out-of-print 1934 novel by Hazel Hawthorne!
Pick up a copy today at local booksellers in Provincetown or online at provincetownarts.org!

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https://massreview.org/2025/08/14/an-outermost-love-triangle/

A Review of Salt House by Hazel Hawthorne An early twentieth-century literary darling of the Outer Cape (and a descendent of Nathaniel Hawthorne), Hazel Hawthorne and her second husband, Morris S. Werner, spent many years living and working between New York and Provincetown. From the back cover of h...