We’re very happy to announce the publication of Rebekah Wolman’s What the Hollow Held, Number 6 in our A.V. Christie Series. Please join us in congratulating Rebekah, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy!
Keystone Series under new editorship
We want to take this opportunity to welcome our new Keystone Series co-editor, Jerry Wemple, to the Seven Kitchens Press family, and to thank our outgoing series co-editor, Jeff Walt, for his service to the series and his continued poetry citizenship. We are happy to add that Karen J. Weyant will stay on as co-editor of this, our longest-running series.
Scroll down on our Keystone Series Guidelines page to read their biographies. And if you are a poet with a Pennsylvania connection, send us your chapbook manuscript by June 30!
Open window: The Keystone Chapbook Series
It’s June, and so we’re throwing open the window for manuscripts by poets with a Pennsylvania connection. Seven Kitchens Press was launched back in 2007 with our Keystone Chapbook Series, and we’ve published 28 chapbooks in the series, with #29 in production. Will your manuscript be next? Check our complete guidelines and send us your best work!
New chapbook release: Diane Scholl, Shipbuilding [Rane Arroyo Series]
We’re very happy to announce the publication of Diane Scholl’s Shipbuilding, Number 23 in our Rane Arroyo Series, and the second of Diane’s chapbooks from Seven Kitchens Press. Please join us in congratulating Diane, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy!
May Sale
Seven Kitchens Press has published over 200 chapbooks since we launched in 2007 with our Keystone Chapbook Series. We’re celebrating this accomplishment with an anniversary sale each month, offering a limited number of select titles at the original price of our very first chapbook: seven dollars.
Sale titles for the month of May are:
- Cruel Folklore by Eric Schwerer (published in May 2016)
- Long Corridor by Lisa Sewell (published in May 2009)
- Fifty Degrees by Gregg Shapiro (published in May 2016)
- Braids & Other Sestinas by Leonard Kress (published in May 2011)
- Remorse Code by Erin Murphy (published in May 2018)
Purchase any of these chapbooks during the month of May and the anniversary sale price ($7) will be applied (your Paypal purchase will have the difference refunded). The sale price includes U.S. postage. Quantities are limited to ten copies of each title.
Questions? Email us at sevenkitchenspress@gmail.com.
Happy Anniversary to all our May poets!
Anniversary sale: April
Seven Kitchens Press has published over 200 chapbooks since we launched in 2007 with our Keystone Chapbook Series. We’re celebrating this accomplishment with an anniversary sale each month, offering a limited number of select titles at the original price of our very first chapbook: seven dollars.
Sale titles for the month of April are:
- My Father’s House by Ed Madden (published in April 2013)
- Smaller Ghosts by Jennifer Moore (published in April 2020)
- Beleaguered Oases by Ann Tweedy (published in April 2020)
- Having Visions Again by Deborah Fries (published in April 2021)
- Bloodfish by Jennifer Jackson Berry (published in April 2019)
Purchase any of these chapbooks during the month of April and the anniversary sale price ($7) will be applied (your Paypal purchase will have the difference refunded). The sale price includes U.S. postage. Quantities are limited to ten copies of each title.
Questions? Email us at sevenkitchenspress@gmail.com.
Happy Anniversary to all our April poets!
Call for manuscripts: the Robin Becker Series
Seven Kitchens Press is proud to sponsor the annual Robin Becker Chapbook Series for an original, unpublished poetry manuscript by an LGBTQ+ writer. This series, initiated in 2008, honors Robin Becker and her continuing accomplishments as a poet, professor, and mentor. We are happy to have Steve Bellin-Oka as our series editor since 2021, and we are especially proud to celebrate your queer work!
Manuscripts are considered annually during the month of April. Full guidelines may be found here.
Anniversary sale: March
Seven Kitchens Press has published over 200 chapbooks since we launched in 2007 with our Keystone Chapbook Series. We’re celebrating this accomplishment with an anniversary sale each month, offering a limited number of select titles at the original price of our very first chapbook: seven dollars.
Sale titles for the month of March are:
- The book of small treasures by Christine Klocek-Lim (published in March 2010)
- In Place by Brad Richard (published in March 2022)
- Portraits by Sarah B. Wiseman (published in March 2015)
- Mostly Water by Sam Pittman (published in March 2018)
- Feed by Emily Mohn-Slate (published in March 2019)
Purchase any of these chapbooks during the month of March and the anniversary sale price ($7) will be applied (your Paypal purchase will have the difference refunded). The sale price includes U.S. postage. Quantities are limited to ten copies of each title.
Questions? Email us at sevenkitchenspress@gmail.com.
Happy Anniversary to all our March poets!





Summer Kitchen manuscripts selected
We’re delighted to announce the lineup for our 2025 Summer Kitchen Series. Please join us in welcoming these four poets to the Seven Kitchens family:
Lisa Low, for Late in the Day: Lisa’s essays, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Boston Review, and The Adroit Journal. Her poetry has been shortlisted for Ploughshares and is published in or forthcoming in many literary journals, among them Hopkins Review, Pleiades, Louisiana Literature, Pennsylvania English, Conduit, and Southern Indiana Review.
Robert Miltner, for Tomas Tranströmer Comes to Ohio: Robert is a life-long Ohioan who grew up in Cleveland and Avon Lake on the north coast of Ohio and currently lives in North Canton and Northeast Ohio in the Great Lakes geography and culture. Miltner is the author of fifteen poetry/prose poetry chapbooks, including Against the Simple, (Wick Poetry Center Ohio Chapbook Award), Eurydice Rising (Red Berry Editions Summer Poetry Chapbook award), and Horse Skull Moon (SurVision Press/James Tate Poetry prize); as well as three full-length poetry/prose poetry collections: Hotel Utopia (New Rivers Press Poetry award), Orpheus & Echo (National Poetry Series finalist), and Always the Geography Leans in on Me (Press 53 Poetry Prize finalist) forthcoming from MadHat Press, Fall 2025).
Laurie Kutchins, for Sketches for a Dead Renaissance: Laurie is a poet and lyric nonfiction writer. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications such as The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and in several anthologies. Her first book of poetry, Between Towns, won the first-book award from Texas Tech University Press, and two subsequent books are published by BOA Editions: The Night Path (1997) and Slope of the Child Everlasting (2007).
Dustin King, for Courteous Gringo: Dustin’s poems have appeared in The Potomac Review, The Tusculum Review, Ligeia, and other rad spots. He is a Best of the Net nominee
and a poetry editor for Sublunary Review. He curates the poetry and performance event “Yodel Farm.” His first chapbook, Last Echo, is forthcoming from Bottlecap Features.
Call for manuscripts: the A.V. Christie Series
Seven Kitchens Press is proud to sponsor the annual A.V. Christie Chapbook Series for an original, unpublished poetry manuscript by a woman writer over the age of 50. This series honors the vision of poet & teacher A.V. Christie and was launched in 2022 thanks to the generous donations of A.V.’s friends and colleagues. We are especially proud to offer this series in her memory as part of our long-term commitment to publish women and other traditionally underrepresented voices, with the goal of making them a significant majority of our catalog.
Manuscripts are considered annually during the month of February. Full guidelines may be found here.
















