Category Archives: A.V. Christie Series

New chapbook release: Rebekah Wolman, What the Hollow Held (A.V. Christie Series)

We’re very happy to announce the publication of Rebekah Wolman’s What the Hollow Held, Number 6 in our A.V. Christie Series. Please join us in congratulating Rebekah, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy!

Call for manuscripts: the A.V. Christie Series

Seven Kitchens Press is proud to sponsor the annual A.V. Christie Chapbook Series for an original, unpublished poetry manuscript by a woman writer over the age of 50. This series honors the vision of poet & teacher A.V. Christie and was launched in 2022 thanks to the generous donations of A.V.’s friends and colleagues. We are especially proud to offer this series in her memory as part of our long-term commitment to publish women and other traditionally underrepresented voices, with the goal of making them a significant majority of our catalog.

Manuscripts are considered annually during the month of February. Full guidelines may be found here.

New chapbook release: Jody Winer, Night Swimmers [A.V. Christie Series]

We’re so happy to announce the publication of Night Swimmers by Jody Winer as Number 5 in our A.V. Christie Series. Please join us in welcoming Jody to the Seven Kitchens family, and then click here to read a sample poem and order your copy!

We will reopen the reading window for this series in February.

Manuscripts selected: A.V. Christie Series

Thank you to all the poets who sent work for the A.V. Christie Series. We have selected two manuscripts: Night Swimmers by Jody Winer of Sag Harbor, NY; and What the Hollow Held by Rebekah Wolman of San Francisco, CA. Each chapbook will be published in an edition of 100 hand-tied copies. Please join us in welcoming these poets to the Seven Kitchens family! We hope you will support their work.

We are thrilled to officially welcome Sandy Yannone as our Series Editor. The author of two poetry collections, Boats for Women and The Glass Studio (both from Salmon Poetry), Sandy is also co-founder and host of Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry, an international, intersectional, intergenerational poetry group and reading series.

New chapbooks released: Tim Moder and Terry Hall Bodine

Now reading manuscripts for the A.V. Christie Series

Seven Kitchens Press is proud to sponsor the annual A.V. Christie Chapbook Series for an original, unpublished poetry manuscript by a woman writer over the age of 50. This series honors the vision of poet & teacher A.V. Christie and was launched in 2022 thanks to the generous donations of A.V.’s friends and colleagues. We are especially proud to offer this series in her memory as part of our long-term commitment to publish women and other traditionally underrepresented voices, with the goal of making them a significant majority of our catalog.

Manuscripts are considered annually during the month of February. Full guidelines may be found here.

New chapbook release: Liz Ahl, A Stanza Is a Place to Stand [A.V. Christie Series]

We are so proud to announce our final chapbook of 2023: Liz Ahl‘s A Stanza Is a Place to Stand, selected as Number 3 in our A.V. Christie Series. This is Liz’s third chapbook with Seven Kitchens: how lucky is that? Please join us in celebrating this new publication.

A.V. Christie Series selections: Ahl, Bodine

The good news continues: we’re very excited to announce the selection of two manuscripts for publication in our A.V. Christie Series: A Stanza Is a Place to Stand by Liz Ahl of Holderness, New Hampshire, and The Something We Make from Nothing by Terry Hall Bodine of Lynchburg, Virginia. Both chapbooks have been scheduled for publication in October.

Please join us in congratulating these poets and their work!

Call for manuscripts: the A.V. Christie Series

We welcome poetry manuscripts during the month of February for our annual A.V. Christie Series for women-identifying writers over the age of 50. Two manuscripts will be selected for publication. A $10 donation entitles you to either title in this series, or a copy of A.V. Christie’s The Wonders–or you may opt to receive one of the new titles when they are released this summer. Find full guidelines here.

New chapbooks released: Bancroft, Thomas: A.V. Christie Series

We’re proud to release both titles in our A.V. Christie Series today: The Square Where Ariadne Sleeps by Catherine Bancroft and Trail of Roots by Gail Thomas were both selected by guest judge Nathalie Anderson. Please join us in celebrating their publication.