Tag Archives: Karen J. Weyant

New titles selected: Davis, Pera [Keystone Series]

We are delighted to announce that our Series Editors, Karen J. Weyant and Jerry Wemple, have selected two chapbooks for publication as #30 and #31 in the Keystone Chapbook Series: Late Practice by Noah Davis, and Falling Into You by Emily Pera. Both chapbooks will be published in April 2026. Please join us in congratulating the poets!

Noah Davis is the author of The Last Beast We Revel In (CavanKerry, 2025). His first collection, Of This River, won the Wheelbarrow Emerging Poet Book Prize from Michigan State University’s Center for Poetry, and his poems and prose have appeared in The Sun, Orion, Best New Poets, The Year’s Best Sports Writing, Southern Humanities Review, Poet Lore, and North American Review, among others. He also coedited the anthology A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia with Todd Davis and Caroyln G.
Mahan (University of Georgia Press). His work has been awarded a Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Jean Ritchie
Appalachian Literature Fellowship. Davis earned an MFA from Indiana University.

Emily Pera‘s poetry and stories have been anthologized in Halcyone’s 64 Best Poets, Poeming Pigeon, the Bryant Literary Review, Litro Magazine, and The Deadline, among others. This is her first chapbook.

Keystone Series under new editorship

New chapbook release: Gloria Heffernan, Animal Grace [Keystone Series]

Keystone Series selection: Brian Patrick Heston

New chapbook release: Erik Schuckers, Pretty Boys in Trouble (Keystone Series)

We are proud to announce the release of our second July chapbook: Erik Schuckers’ Pretty Boys in Trouble was selected by Keystone Series editors Karen J. Weyant and Jeff Walt as #27 in our longest-running chapbook series. Please join us in welcoming Erik to the Seven Kitchens family, and click here to order your copy now!

Keystone Series selections: Heffernan, Schuckers

We’re thrilled to announce the selection of two manuscripts for publication in our Keystone Chapbook Series: Series Editors Karen J. Weyant and Jeff Walt have selected Animal Grace by Gloria Heffernan of Syracuse, New York and Pretty Boys in Trouble by Erik Schuckers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Both chapbooks have been scheduled for publication in December.

Please join us in congratulating these poets and their work!

Keystone Chapbook Series is open

We have thrown open the window for our annual Keystone Chapbook Series reading period. For the month of June, series editors Jeff Walt and Karen J. Weyant look forward to reading manuscripts from all poets with a Pennsylvania connection. Please click here to read full guidelines for our longest-running series!

Keystone Chapbook Series is now open

We are now reading manuscripts for our annual Keystone Chapbook Series through the month of June. Our new series editors, Jeff Walt and Karen J. Weyant, are eager to read your work.

The Keystone Chapbook Series was launched in 2007 with Underground Singing by Harry Humes. We welcome poetry manuscripts from writers with a Pennsylvania connection. Full guidelines are available here.