2024: Manuscripts received

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

The Robin Becker Series

(postmarked or emailed between April 1 and April 30, 2024)

  • 90s Feminist Mentality
  • The Dead Time Carousel
  • Forests of Woundedness
  • god is not dead among the microplastics
  • Grab-n-Go
  • The Honey King
  • Kitchen Small-Talk
  • Locating Want
  • Purple and Dissonance
  • Seltzer Queen
  • subway
  • Thank You More Please
  • To Love
  • Unshuttered
  • venomous gardens still thrive
  • You were the main event

The A.V. Christie Series

(postmarked or emailed between February 1 and February 29, 2024)

  • Addendum
  • Aftermath
  • Alphabet of a Move at Mid-Life
  • Another Anthomaniac
  • ArtBeat
  • Awakening
  • Blue Shadows
  • Breaks & Interruptions
  • Coming Round
  • Corporeal
  • Detached Braid in a Drawer
  • Dying to Reach You
  • Elegy with Clouds &
  • Everything Is Ridiculous Without You
  • Exhalation
  • Fog Machine
  • Forget
  • Gaea
  • The Garden of the Universe
  • I Had All Those Things
  • In the Company of Finches
  • Late Promise
  • Leavened by Earth
  • Leaves Barely Showing
  • A Life in Runes
  • Loss Is Loss
  • Mimosas at Sunset
  • Music as Scripture
  • [name it later]
  • The Nature of Unfinishedness
  • The Night House
  • Night Swimmers
  • Now the Repairman
  • Other Islands
  • The Other Question
  • Prie Dieu
  • Quick
  • Red Rain
  • River of Years
  • Sermon of Swallows
  • A Shade I Cannot Name
  • The Skylark
  • Small Galaxies for Breakfast
  • Stars I Could Not Calculate
  • Sweet Departure
  • Tambourine
  • Variations on a Nomad Flute
  • What the Hollow Held
  • Whole Cloth

The Summer Kitchen Series

(postmarked or emailed between January 1 and January 31, 2024)

  • As If We Know the World
  • Big Man
  • Black Jack Ace
  • A Child’s Sketch of the Afterlife–accepted elsewhere: congratulations to Brian Dickson
  • Country Love Poems
  • Daisy Womb
  • Elusive Acquaintances
  • Finding Reality
  • Flowers from Apocrypha
  • Gertrude Stein Stops at Zesto’s
  • The Girls
  • Given and Taken Away
  • Huswifery and Higher Math
  • Instant
  • Letters to Gilgamesh
  • Long for This World
  • Mitzvah
  • Only the Dead Survive
  • Opening
  • Over the Fence
  • Pale Horses
  • Passings
  • The Plum
  • Postcards from the Knife Thrower
  • Prince of the Air
  • Recount and Prophecy
  • A Rendering
  • The Subtraction of One
  • Variations on My Life
  • Vintaged
  • What Couldn’t Be Fixed
  • Whatever You Got Going On
  • Where’s My Dad?
  • Wilderness Bardo
  • Winding Paths
  • With swan’s nest on her back
  • You Are One of Only a Few Who Know