Tag Archives: call for poetry chapbooks

Open window: The Keystone Chapbook Series

Call for manuscripts: the Summer Kitchen Series

Now reading manuscripts for the Robin Becker Series

Since 2008, Seven Kitchens Press has proudly sponsored the annual Robin Becker Chapbook Series for original, unpublished poetry manuscripts by writers identifying as LGBTQ+. To date, we have published 30 titles in the series; 29 are still in print. Our series editor is Steve Bellin-Oka. Won’t you send us your work?

Call for manuscripts: The Allison Joseph Series

We welcome poetry manuscripts during the month of May November for our annual Allison Joseph Series for BIPOC women writers. Two manuscripts will be selected for publication. A $10 donation entitles you to a title in this series. 

Our congratulations to the poets selected by Allison Joseph for publication this summer:

  • Paloma Martinez-Cruz, for Other Bombs
  • Asani Charles, for Wordsongs for Grandmas

Find full guidelines here.

We’re here, we’re queer, and we want your poems

We welcome poetry manuscripts during the month of April for our annual Robin Becker Series for LGBTQ+ writers. Two manuscripts will be selected for publication by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka. A $10 donation entitles you to any of the titles in this series listed below. Find full guidelines here.

  • RJ Gibson, Scavenge
  • Christina Hutchins, Radiantly We Inhabit the Air
  • Ellen Goldberg, Each Perfect One
  • David J Daniels, indecency
  • Sarah B. Wiseman, Portraits
  • Doug Paul Case, Something to Hide My Face In
  • Ed Madden, So they can sing
  • Mary Ann Davis, Portrait of a Voice
  • Hannah Larrabee, Murmuration
  • Chris Philpot, The Way to the Citadel
  • Alec Hershman, Permanent and Wonderful Storage
  • Allison Blevins, A Season for Speaking
  • Yakov Azriel, Shadow in the Closet
  • Jamie Swanson, You May Unravel [forthcoming]