We are delighted to announce the publication of Noah Davis’s Late Practice, Number 30 in our Keystone Series, selected by series editors Karen J. Weyant and Jerry Wemple. Please join us in congratulating Noah, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
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.
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!
We’re so happy to announce the publication of Animal Grace by Gloria Heffernan as Number 28 in our Keystone Series, selected by series editors Karen J. Weyant and Jeff Walt. Please join us in welcoming Gloria to the Seven Kitchens family, and then click here to read a sample poem and order your copy!
We read annually for the Keystone Series during the month of June. Full guidelines may be found here.
We’re very happy to announce the results of this year’s Keystone Chapbook Series: Series Editors Karen J. Weyant and Jeff Walt have selected Sing, Dark Times by Brian Patrick Heston of Kirksville, Missouri as the 29th title in our longest-running series. Brian’s chapbook has been scheduled for publication in spring of 2025.
Please join us in welcoming Brian to the Seven Kitchens family.
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!
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!
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!
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.
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