Category Archives: Robin Becker Chapbook Series

Robin Becker Prize co-winners: E Goldberg, _ ___________

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Please join us in congratulating the co-winners of this year’s Robin Becker Chapbook Prize, selected by guest judge Judith Barrington:

Ellen Goldberg’s Turned Into Mattering is the winner among poets with previous book or chapbook publication; her chapbook will be published in March of 2012. The runner-up manuscript was “My Father’s House” by Ed Madden.

_ _____________’s Catch & Release is the winner among poets without previous book or chapbook publication; their chapbook will be published in April of 2012. The runner-up manuscript was “Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past” by David Eye.

Please stay tuned for more announcements as we finalize our 2012 schedule, including more titles in our Editor’s Series and the lineup for next year’s Summer Kitchen Series!

Update: Becker Prize status, new 2012 Editor’s Series titles

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Hi, folks. Just a quick update today to let you know that the manuscripts have been narrowed down to twelve finalists for the Robin Becker Prize; we expect to name the co-winners sometime in October. (Yes, we’re running late this year, but things have been hopping around here.) All the finalists have been contacted as of Sept 20 and we’re just about to update the online manuscript log to reflect that status. Thanks again to everyone who supported this series for another year. Once the co-winners are selected, we’ll be e-mailing you to find out which title you’d like to receive.

Our thanks to everyone who ordered copies of Catherine Staples’ Never a Note Forfeit: the response was so overwhelming that we are still catching up with orders. Catherine’s chapbook went into a second printing on the day it was released, and a third printing the same month (July)! If you’ve not yet received your copy, please know that we’re working on it. And thanks so much for your patience and support.

We’re currently reading through the Keystone Chapbook entries and will post an update in the next couple of weeks.

Finally, we’re pretty much over the moon about two chapbooks we’ve just contracted to publish next fall in the Editor’s Series, both by poets in the Seven Kitchens family: The Vanishing of Camille Claudel by Erin M. Bertram, and Mistakes with Strangers by Jeff Oaks. Please join us in congratulating Erin and Jeff!

Over. The. Moon.

Scavenge hits third printing

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Please join us in congratulating RJ Gibson, whose chapbook, Scavenge, is now in its third printing! Co-winner of the 2009 Robin Becker Prize, this title is one of our best sellers and absolutely deserves its ever-widening readership. We can’t wait till RJ has a full-length book, but till then, we wholeheartedly recommend this collection: 24 pages of smart, sharply observant poems whose titles alone–from “Coming from a Farm” and “Earthly Delights” to “Erotics” to “Ontology: Britney Spears”–let you know you’re in for an original treat. Congrats, RJ!

Robin Becker Chapbook – deadline extended

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Well, it was bound to happen. Because your humble editor neglected to thoroughly proofread the posted guidelines, the deadline was listed as May 15. For this year only, we will therefore extend the submission deadline from April 15 to May 15. (You’re welcome.) For those of you scrambling to get manuscripts into the mail, relax.  For anyone who wants to take advantage of the (accidentally) extended deadline and submit a revised manuscript (not that there’s anything wrong with what you’ve already sent), that’s okay, too.

Two weeks remain: Get those Becker chapbooks in!

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In just over two weeks–April 15–the submission period will close for the 4th annual Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. Spread the word! Order a prize-winning title! Send us your work! We’d love to make this the biggest year yet for the Becker Prize. Thanks so much for your continued support.

Full guidelines here: https://sevenkitchenspress.wordpress.com/series-guidelines/guidelines-the-robin-becker-chapbook-prize/

Judith Barrington to judge Robin Becker Prize

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We’re thrilled to announce that Judith Barrington will judge this year’s Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. Judith is the author of three poetry collections, a prizewinning memoir, and a text on writing literary memoir. The poetry books are: Horses and the Human Soul, History and Geography, and Trying to be an Honest Woman. She has also recorded a CD of selected poems titled Harvest. Prose books are: Lifesaving: A Memoir (winner of the Lambda Book Award and finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir), and Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art which is used in numerous writing programs. Most recently, she has published two poetry chapbooks: Postcard from the Bottom of the Sea (8th Mountain Press) and Lost Lands (selected by Robin Becker as winner of the inaugural Robin Becker Chapbook Prize).

The reading period for the Robin Becker Prize is March 1 – April 15; complete guidelines are posted here.

Newest Robin Becker Series title by Austin Gray

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Please join us in congratulating Austin Gray on his soon-to-be-released chapbook, The Mystery of Horses, selected by Eloise Klein Healy as co-winner of the 2010 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize along with Christina Hutchins’ Radiantly We Inhabit the Air. Pre-orders are now being accepted for this title, which is scheduled for official release on January 27.

Over the next week, we will e-mail poets who entered manuscripts for the 2010 series to ask which title you’d like to receive. If you have changed your e-mail or postal address since this past summer, please contact us.

New Robin Becker Series title by Christina Hutchins

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We’re thrilled to announce the imminent release of Christina Hutchins’ latest collection, Radiantly We Inhabit the Air, selected by Eloise Klein Healy as co-winner of the 2010 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. Pre-orders are now being accepted for this title, which is scheduled for official release on January 21.

Please stay tuned for more news on the other co-winning title–Austin Gray’s The Mystery of Horses–also due out this month.

New review: RJ Gibson’s Scavenge

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Our thanks to Bernie Geyer for her fresh review of RJ Gibson’s Scavenge, Number 4 in our Robin Becker Series. If you, too would like to review one of our chapbooks, just send an e-mail to sevenkitchens at that yahoo place with “review” in the subject line.

-SKiP

Robin Becker Chapbook winners announced

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The results are in: this year’s guest judge, Eloise Klein Healy, has selected Austin Gray’s “The Mystery of Horses” as the winning manuscript among writers with no previous chapbook publication for this year’s Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. The runner-up manuscript was Celeste Gainey’s “In the Land of Speculation & Seismography.”

From the manuscripts by writers with previous chapbook or book publication, Eloise has selected Christina Hutchins’ “Radiantly We Inhabit the Air.” The runner-up manuscript was Jeremy Halinen’s “Bromide.”

Christina’s chapbook will be published in January 2011, and Austin’s will be published in February 2011.

We want to thank everyone who submitted work and shared the word this year. Special thanks to Eloise Klein Healy for serving as this year’s judge. Next year’s Robin Becker Series has a new reading period: March 1 to April 15, 2011. Please mark your calendars!