2023: Manuscripts received

[Manuscripts are posted here as they are received, alphabetically by title. Please check back often & remember to refresh this page.]

The Allison Joseph Series

(postmarked or emailed between November 1 and November 30, 2023)

(second reading window: March 1 through March 31, 2024)

  • Accompanying Alterity
  • Analog Cyborg Feelings
  • CHARM(ed)–accepted elsewhere: congratulations to Ashley Elizabeth
  • daddy’s girl
  • Diez Espadas
  • Elegy-ish—forthcoming from Sheila Carter-Jones
  • Everything But the Bones—forthcoming from Fia Montero
  • Four Years of Goodbyes
  • Homebound
  • in storyboard–accepted elsewhere: congratulations to Melanie Manuel
  • Lana Turner Has Collapsed!
  • Lost in Winter
  • Mazefruits
  • red line
  • southern gothic asian americana
  • Split–accepted elsewhere: congratulations to Jade Han
  • Trompe L’œil
  • unburied
  • Unintended Calculations
  • Waiting for Resurrection

The Rane Arroyo Series

(postmarked or emailed between October 1 and October 31, 2023)

  • Complications
  • Describe the Blue
  • Excavating Memory
  • Faith and other love letters I search for in the stream
  • Florida Etchings
  • gallery of heartache
  • Grievous Acts
  • The HD Sequence – A Concordance
  • her body electric
  • How I Got Here
  • The Instrumentalists Have Faces
  • Memos from the Desk
  • A Mob of Kangaroos
  • Oneiromancy
  • Phallus Sprouting Leaves by Robert Carr
  • The Plum
  • A Rendering
  • Sense of Direction
  • Shipbuilding—forthcoming from Diane Scholl
  • Sleeping with Crickets
  • Take Me to the Country Where I Don’t Need to Be Translated
  • They Don’t Bite If You Hold Your Breath
  • Time to Come Home
  • Turn
  • Various Absences
  • Voice Notes from the Eschaton
  • Zygote

The Keystone Chapbook Series

(postmarked or emailed between June 1 and June 30, 2023)

  • Absence of Breath
  • Always, hopefully, soon
  • Animal Grace—forthcoming from Gloria Heffernan
  • The Apple
  • At Last a Valley
  • Dendrochronology
  • Doctor, Feel Good
  • Eight Seasons of Little Prayers
  • Elliott
  • Everything Changes
  • I’m 31 and Sometimes I Don’t Feel So Good
  • Now We Meet
  • Pandemic Features
  • Pretty Boys in Trouble by Erik Schuckers
  • Sense Organs
  • Sing, Closet
  • The Soul That Grows in Darkness

The Robin Becker Series

(postmarked or emailed between April 1 and April 30, 2023):

  • The Agoraphobe’s Guide to Travel
  • before & after the delirium tremens
  • Call Me Baby
  • A Day Without Trousers
  • The Ersatz Obelisk
  • Feedback Harmonies by Reuben Gelley Newman
  • the fire in me
  • gallery of heartache
  • i don’t believe in sex
  • I Fall Apart, Sweetly
  • i want to be clear
  • A New Engine for Softening Bones
  • The Orchid in Lieu of a Horse—forthcoming from Jon Riccio
  • Pick the bones
  • A Season in One Evening
  • VII: Devotions to Ugly
  • Solemnities in White Leather
  • Still Dances
  • Survivalism for Hedonists
  • Vestiges
  • What on Earth
  • white noise. something.
  • Zippered

The A.V. Christie Series

(postmarked or emailed between February 1 and February 28, 2023):

  • Air of Tears
  • At the Black Lagoon
  • Beauty’s Scar
  • Before the Sun Knows You’re Awake
  • Beguiling Deeps
  • Cleaning in Spite of the Evidence
  • Eternities in Time
  • Finding the River
  • Fire Triangle
  • Floodlit
  • Four Season Rural
  • Heart’s Cure
  • How to rob a convenience store
  • Human Collateral
  • I Ask My Father for a Story
  • Letters of Selēnē and Endymiōn
  • Memories in Poetry
  • My Right Hand, My Left Hand
  • Necessary Artifacts
  • Nocturne for Moon
  • on the verge
  • One City to Another
  • Poems from the Edge of Loss
  • Pressed in Time
  • The Price of the Repair
  • Repeat Slowly, Like Dance
  • The Rooms—published as A Stanza Is a Place to Stand by Liz Ahl
  • The Shallow Water Held Stars
  • Some Houses
  • Some Sharp Instrument
  • The Something We Make from Nothing by Terry Hall Bodine
  • Sonnets in My Prime
  • Stick Season
  • These Professions
  • The Very Fabric
  • Two Deaths
  • we do not know the things that mark us

The Summer Kitchen Series

(postmarked or emailed between January 1 and January 31, 2023):

  • AH Melody
  • Amnesiac Ghosts
  • Another Experiment in Lucid Dreaming
  • call me volta
  • Can You Imagine?
  • Chanties: An American Dream
  • Dark Night, with Squirrels
  • Days of Bees
  • Divorce Song by Lisa Hammond
  • Do Not Be Alarmed
  • Eat or Be Eaten
  • First Father
  • Incognito
  • In Lies Lie Beliefs
  • In My Eighties by Jonathan Bracker
  • In This Neighborhood
  • Keyed Up Eyes and Highway Signs
  • The Metaphysics of Transport
  • Mother, One Thing More
  • My Beautiful Debris
  • The Nail Set
  • on all the things i’ve never felt
  • Pray to What Humbles You
  • Qualm (before a Storm)
  • The Rain It Raineth
  • Regards to Balthus by Lenore Myers
  • Resolutions
  • A Sea Too Deep to Drain
  • Sealed with an If
  • Sideways Glances
  • A Splash of Red
  • Still Life of Morning and Mourning
  • Stolen Flesh and Mirrored Memory
  • Sycamore
  • Teenagerhood
  • To the Lost Children
  • we need a breathing tongue between
  • Where You Find It
  • Wings Dipped Sweet in Wild Air
  • You’re Never the Same by Jessica Purdy