Category Archives: manuscripts selected

Manuscripts selected: Robin Becker Series

We’re thrilled to announce the newest titles to be included in the Robin Becker Series. Our series editor, Steve Bellin-Oka, has selected Kitchen Small-Talk by Regina Ruggiero of Manchester, UK, and Forests of Woundedness by Jan Wiezorek of Buchanan, Michigan. 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 would also like to announce the runner-up manuscript, Dead Time Carousel by Michael Russell of Toronto, Ontario, and to thank everyone who sent us their poems, which were read with great care and deliberation.

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Manuscripts selected: Summer Kitchen Series

We’re delighted to announce the lineup for this year’s Summer Kitchen Series. Thank you to everyone who sent in their manuscripts for consideration. Each of the following titles will be published this summer in a limited edition of 49 copies. Authors will receive 25 copies of their work, and the remaining copies will be available–while they last–on our website. Congratulations to:

  • Trevor Moffa, for Always, Hopefully, Soon
  • Karen McPherson, for Long for This World
  • Robert Fanning, for Prince of the Air
  • Connie Wieneke, for What Couldn’t Be Fixed

Please join us in welcoming these poets to the Seven Kitchens family!

Allison Joseph Series: manuscripts selected

We are proud to announce the selection of two manuscripts for the Allison Joseph Series: elegy-ish by Sheila Carter-Jones, and Everything But the Bones by Fia Montero. We hope to publish both chapbooks this October. Please join us in welcoming these poets to the Seven Kitchens family.

Thank you to everyone who submitted work to the Allison Joseph Series. It was an honor to read such brilliant, diverse voices. Our next reading period will open in November.

Rane Arroyo Series selections: Carr, Scholl

We’re thrilled to announce the selections for the 2023 Rane Arroyo Series: Robert Carr‘s Phallus Sprouting Leaves and Diane Scholl‘s Shipbuilding. Both manuscripts will be published late this spring.

Robert Carr is the author of Amaranth, published by Indolent Books, and two full-length
collections published by 3: A Taos Press – The Unbuttoned Eye and The Heavy of Human
Clouds
. His poetry appears in many journals and magazines including the Greensboro Review, Lana Turner Journal, the Massachusetts Review and Shenandoah. He is the recipient of a 2022 artist residency at Monson Arts and a 2023 guest instructor at The Millay House Rockland.

Diane Scholl is Professor Emerita of English at Luther College, in Decorah, Iowa, where she taught American and modern British literature, poetry courses, and literature by women. Her poems have been published in Louisville Review, Cider Press Review, Cold Mountain Review, Ruminate, and Spoon River Poetry Review, among other places. In 2019 her chapbook, Salt, was published by Seven Kitchens Press. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she misses its tree-lined streets and multi-cultural neighborhoods, but has learned to love hiking and biking among the scenic bluffs of NE Iowa.

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!

Keystone Series selections: Heffernan, Schuckers

We’re thrilled to announce the selection of two manuscripts for publication in our Keystone Chapbook Series: Series Editors Karen J. Weyant and Jeff Walt have selected Animal Grace by Gloria Heffernan of Syracuse, New York and Pretty Boys in Trouble by Erik Schuckers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Both chapbooks have been scheduled for publication in December.

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Allison Joseph Series selections: Martinez-Cruz, Charles

We’re thrilled to announce the selection of two manuscripts for publication in our Allison Joseph Chapbook Series: Allison Joseph has selected Other Bombs by Paloma Martinez-Cruz of Columbus, Ohio and Wordsongs for Grandmas by Asani Charles of Dallas, Texas. Both chapbooks will be published in summer of 2023.

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Keystone Series selections: Gouirand, Skinner

We’re so happy to announce the selection of two manuscripts for publication in our Keystone Chapbook Series: Rough Sequence by Rae Gouirand and Blue Book by Jeffrey Skinner. Both chapbooks will be published in summer of 2023.

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Rane Arroyo Series selections: Beaven, Gearen, Moder

We are thrilled to announce the selection of three manuscripts for publication in our Rane Arroyo Series. From over sixty entries, we have chosen In Arcadia by Craig Beaven, Sorry, Wept the Littered Riverbed by Cameron Gearen, and American Parade Routes by Tim Moder. All three chapbooks will be published in summer of 2023.

Please join us in congratulating these poets and their work!

A.V. Christie Series selections

We are grateful to this year’s guest judge, Nathalie Anderson, for selecting the first two manuscripts to appear in our new A. V. Christie Series. Nathalie selected The Square Where Ariadne Sleeps by Catherine Bancroft and Trail of Roots by Gail Thomas. Catherine’s and Gail’s chapbooks were selected from sixty manuscripts–a very strong response for our series launch–and will be published this fall.

Thanks also to our reader, Diana Becket. Your care and attention is greatly appeciated.

Please join us in congratulating these poets and their work!