We’re so happy to release the 12th title in our Rane Arroyo Series: The Gospel According to X, by Oliver Baez Bendorf, featuring two alternate covers by Kim Charles Kay. Get your copy here!
We’re so proud to release the newest title in our Rane Arroyo Series: Ballast by Alyse Knorr is out today to coincide with the start of our reading period for Rane Arroyo Series manuscripts. Look for the final chapbook in this year’s Rane Arroyo Series trio, The Gospel According to X by Oliver Baez Bendorf, later this month. Meanwhile, please join us in welcoming Alyse to the Seven Kitchens Press family and click here to read more about Ballast (and to order your copy).
We’re just mailing out proof copies for this year’s Rane Arroyo Series selections and even though it’s a bit behind schedule (volunteers are always welcome, y’all) I do hope you can feel the anticipation and growing excitement as we move ahead with fabulous chapbooks by Oliver Baez Bendorf, Alyse Knorr, and Matt Daly!
Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series editors Dan Vera and Ron Mohring are delighted to announce the selection of three manuscripts from this fall’s entries: “The Gospel According to X” by Oliver Baez Bendorf, “Ballast” by Alyse Knorr, and “Red State” by Matt Daly will be published in summer of 2019.
Please join us in welcoming Oliver, Alyse and Matt to the Seven Kitchens family!
Guillermo Filice Castro’s new chapbook, Mix Tape for a War, is the newest title in our Rane Arroyo Series and we’re thrilled to release it today in conjunction with his book launch/reading.
Two covers, both designed by the author! Order yours here.
We’re thrilled to announce the release of our eighth title in the Rane Arroyo Series: Dana De Greff’s Alterations is now available for ordering! Dana’s official book release will be in Miami in September (more details to follow). Please join us in welcoming Dana to the Seven Kitchens family.
We’re so happy to announce the release of the newest title in the Rane Arroyo Series: The Exclusion Zone, by Wayne Johns. Thanks to Paul Bilger for once again providing such gorgeous cover art.
Get yours here!
We’ve closed out March with the second of two new chapbooks: Sam Pittman’s Mostly Water, which had its launch reading in Pittsburgh on March 31. Selected by Dan Vera and Ron Mohring as Number 6 in the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series and featuring a gorgeous cover designed by Sam himself, Mostly Water is available now!
We are now reading manuscripts for the 2017-2018 Rane Arroyo Series. Full guidelines may be found here. Dazzle us!
Please join us in congratulating Wayne Johns and Sam Pittman, whose chapbook manuscripts have been selected by Ron Mohring and Dan Vera for the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series.
Wayne Johns is the author of a previous chapbook, An Invisible Veil Between Us (Frank O’Hara Prize). His first book, Antipsalms, received the inaugural Audre Lorde and Frank O’Hara prize and is forthcoming from Oia Arts Press. The Exclusion Zone will be published this winter as Number 6 in the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series.
Sam Pittman is a graduate of the MFA Program in Writing at the University of Pittsburgh, and holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. He writes and teaches English in Pittsburgh, PA, where he lives with his partner. Mostly Water, his first chapbook, will be published this winter as Number 7 in the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series.
Deep thanks to Dan Vera for coming on board as co-editor of this series, and to all the writers who submitted work for our consideration. These new titles will both deepen and expand the range of this series, and we continue to be grateful to Glenn Sheldon for blessing this project in honor of Rane Arroyo.
Seven Kitchens Press will consider manuscripts for the 2017 Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series from October 1 – November 15, 2017.
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