It is our great delight this year’s selections for the Keystone Chapbook Series. Series Editors Karen J. Weyant and Jerry Wemple have selected three manuscripts for publication: Jeff Walt’s For the Boy Who Likes Pink, Jackie Campbell’s Things No One Will Repair, and Robert Shapiro’s Seventy. Each chapbook will be printed in an edition of 100 copies, and the poets will receive 20 copies of their book. We expect to bring out all three titles in spring of 2027.

There has been a change to the deadline for the Keystone Series: going forward, we will consider manuscripts for this series during the month of May (previously June). Please see the full guidelines for this and all our series. Meanwhile, please join us in congratulating our newest poets!

Jeff Walt was born & raised in rural Pennsylvania among a community of coal
miners, brick-layers, and railroad workers. His chapbook, Soot, was awarded co-winner
of the Keystone Chapbook Prize and published in 2010 by Seven Kitchens Press. He’s
been awarded writing residencies from The MacDowell Colony, The Djerassi Resident
Artist Program, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Fairhope Center for the
Writing Arts, and Kalani Eco-village on the Big Island of Hawaii. His book, Leave Smoke, was published on Oct. 1, 2019 by Gival Press and was awarded the 2020 Housatonic Book Award. Jeff is the Founder and Director of the Desert Rat Residency for Writers in Palm Desert, CA which sponsors The
Desert Rat Poetry & Fiction Prize.

Jackie Campbell is a writer and teacher from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD in English from Princeton University. This is her first chapbook.

Robert Shapiro is a clinical neurologist and a Professor emeritus of Neurological Sciences at the University of Vermont.