Seven Kitchens Press has published 25 chapbooks in our Rane Arroyo Series, and we are looking for one or two manuscripts for publication in 2026. We read annually for this series during the month of October. There are no restrictions on content or form. Please check our complete guidelines and send us your best work!
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!
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!
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:
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!
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.
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.
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 February are:
Purchase any of these chapbooks during the month of February 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 February poets!
We’re thrilled to announce our selections for this year’s Rane Arroyo Series:
Cicada Song by Marzelle Robertson of Mount Vernon, Texas was selected as #24 in our series and is scheduled for publication in April. Bliss Road by Joshua Zeitler of Alma, Michigan was selected as #25 in our series and is scheduled for publication in May.
Readers for this year’s series were Kate Caraballo (thank you, Kate) and Ron Mohring. Manuscripts are considered for the Rane Arroyo Series annually during the month of October.
Please join us in welcoming Marzelle and Joshua to the Seven Kitchens family.
We are eager to read your poetry manuscripts during the month of November, when we welcome work by BIPOC women writers for the annual Allison Joseph Series. Poets selected for this series present a wide range of voices, and we are super excited to add new work to the chorus. If you identify as a BIPOC woman, please send your chapbooks. Previous authors in this series are Paloma Martínez-Cruz, Asani Charles, Sheila Carter-Jones, and Fia Montero. Full guidelines may be found here.
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.
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