2023: Manuscripts received

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

The Keystone Chapbook Series

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

  • At Last a Valley

The Allison Joseph Series

(postmarked or emailed between May 1 and May 31, 2023)/

Due to a lack of response, this series will re-launch in November 2023. Please see complete guidelines.

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Shallow Water Held Stars
  • Some Houses
  • Some Sharp Instrument
  • The Something We Make from Nothing
  • 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—forthcoming from Lisa Hammond
  • Do Not Be Alarmed
  • Eat or Be Eaten
  • First Father
  • Incognito
  • In Lies Lie Beliefs
  • In My Eighties—forthcoming from 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—forthcoming from 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—forthcoming from Jessica Purdy