I Take Back the Sponge Cake
By Loren Erdrich and
Sierra Nelson

The Louisiana Purchase
By Jim Goar

They Could No Longer
Contain Themselves
By Elizabeth J. Colen,
John Jodzio,
Tim Jones-Yelvington,
Sean Lovelace, and Mary Miller

Color Plates
By Adam Golaski
Small Fictions

The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry
Edited by Gary L. McDowell
and F. Daniel Rzicznek

The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction
Edited by Tara L. Masih

OPEN READING PERIOD FOR FULL-LENGTH HYBRID MANUSCRIPTS

Between April 1 and May 1, 2013, Rose Metal Press will be having an open reading period during which we are actively seeking full-length hybrid and cross-genre manuscripts for consideration for publication in 2014 and 2015. We are particularly interested in short short, flash, and micro-fiction; prose poetry; novels-in-verse or book-length linked narrative poems; flash nonfiction or book-length memoirs in shorts; image and text collaborations and other collaborative work, and other literary works that move beyond traditional genres to find new forms of expression. The best way to see what we mean by hybrid is to take a look at our catalog. We welcome submissions in all styles and on all subjects, and encourage a broad and expansive interpretation of hybridity.

Submissions will be accepted through our Submittable site with a $15 reading fee. The link will be available once the reading period begins. Manuscripts should be 40 pages or more.

 

ANNUAL SHORT SHORT CHAPBOOK CONTEST

Our Eighth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest submission period begins November 1 and ends December 1, 2013. Our 2013 judge will be Michael Martone. The winner will have his/her chapbook published in summer 2014, with an introduction by the contest judge. During the submission period, please submit your 25–40 page double-spaced manuscript of short short stories (fiction or nonfiction) each under 1000 words to our Submittable contest site with a $10 reading fee.

Individual pieces in your manuscript may have appeared in journals, both in print and online, as long as the entire collection itself is unpublished.

 

Please do not send or email unsolicited manuscripts to the Press outside of the specified reading periods.