Rose Metal Press
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Rose Metal Press is a non-profit publisher specializing in the publication of hybrid genre books. Founded in 2006. Posts by co-founders Abby Beckel and Kathleen Rooney. Check out our books and amazing authors here: www.rosemetalpress.com
Have you preordered your copy of The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay? It releases on Tuesday! Only 5 more days to get free US shipping on your preorder w/ code LYRICFREESHIP! @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social have edited a stunner! rosemetalpress.com/books/field-...
big shoutout to two of my favorite presses, @lfpbooks.bsky.social and @rosemetalpress.bsky.social
Next Tues, October 13, at 8 pm ET/7 pm CT, please join us for a Zoom book launch for The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay! It will be a night of lyric essay wisdom & inspiration featuring editors @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social @artichokeheart.bsky.social & 3 FG contributors! Link on our site.
Looking forward to this book on writing the lyric essay, coming soon. I preordered it today from Next Chapter Books in St. Paul, one of my favorite independents, with plans to read the essays by St. Paul authors Michael Kleber-Diggs and Katrina Vandenberg first. rosemetalpress.com/books/field-...
Editor's Choice: The fifth volume in the popular Field Guide series, 'The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay' gives readers an extraordinary window into the methods of 26 expert practitioners. #booknews #newreleases #writing #readingcommunity @rosemetalpress.bsky.social
Editor's Choice :: The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay
A practical guide to lyric essays, featuring craft essays, exercises, examples, forms, techniques, and insights into the genre’s history.
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We love all the love for Flash Nonfiction and Brevity in September! Thanks for teaching our books! And thanks for making such wonderful anthologies and teaching tools @dintywmoore.bsky.social & @zoebossiere.bsky.social! @bookmobile-itasca.bsky.social
In our first PS post, a love letter to our archive, Kathryn Nuernberger, Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, and Heidi Czerwiec discuss the work of Maxine Kumin, Annie Dillard, and Toi Derricotte in previous issues of Ploughshares. Read more: https://bit.ly/4rQBUIv XO, Ploughshares
Fresh from our new fall issue, Joanna Eleftheriou's marvelous interview with Heidi Czerwiec, co-editor of the almost-hot-off-the-press Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay! Read more at buff.ly/RS9ht8O!
Featuring @mouthfeelpress.bsky.social, @artepublico.bsky.social, @newvesselpress.bsky.social, @catalystpress.bsky.social, @readfuriously.bsky.social, @rosemetalpress.bsky.social, @feralhouse.bsky.social, @abodepress.bsky.social, @triohousepress.org, and more: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
A Reading List for Hispanic Heritage Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For National Hispanic Heritage Month, observed annually from September 15 to October 15, we asked our members to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in celebration. (Learn…
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Chicago! Come to @quimbysbookstore.bsky.social on Thursday, 9/24 at 6:30 for After Hours w/ @rosemetalpress.bsky.social! I'll be there along with @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social & @marromasco.bsky.social & @kelceyervick.bsky.social! www.quimbys.com/blog/news/9-...
9/24 After Hours with Rose Metal Press « Quimblog
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Grateful to Rain Taxi for including @emilyannwebber.bsky.social's wonderful interview with RMP author Molly Gaudry about her book FIT INTO ME in their summer issue! raintaxi.com/the-real-and...
The Real and Unreal: An Interview with Molly Gaudry
Molly Gaudry, author of Fit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir, discusses her experimental combination of memoir and novel forms, her choice to revisit characters from her prior books, and her creative proces...
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A new issue of TWC is here, and with it comes “The Big Conversation: Behind the Scenes of Small Press Publishing.” Publishers and editors discuss the mission, logistics, and enduring appeal of the small press. This article is available to all readers.
The Big Conversation
Diane Goettel of Black Lawrence Press, Abigail Beckel of Rose Metal Press, EJ Colen of Tupelo Press, and Maya Marshall of Haymarket Books discuss the mission, logistics, and enduring appeal of the…
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Friday Links is UP! Featuring @amorak.bsky.social @morganelisej.thetriibe.com @laurentheisen.bsky.social and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658703
Deadline Sep 13: CRAFT Flash Prose Prize Submit unpublished fiction and creative nonfiction. 3 winners will each receive $1,000, a bundle of Rose Metal Press Field Guides, and publication in CRAFT. Fee: $20 for 1-2 prose works up to 1,000 words each. https://loom.ly/w33IldQ
Join us in September for a marathon reading alongside Printers Row Lit Fest! We'll be highlighting over a dozen indie presses with rapid-fire readings 📚❤️ We attempted this last year for the first time & it was a huge hit.
We're pleased to announce that the Best Small Fictions Nomination Period is now open! This is an open call to journal, magazine, and book editors who publish flash fiction. Note that writers cannot submit their own work for consideration. The full specifications are on Submittable (link in bio).
Grateful to be part of this important small press publishing discussion with our friends at @blacklawrence.bsky.social, @haymarketbooks.org, and @tupelopress.bsky.social! Check it out and join us for the live conversation on November 12!
AWP@awpwriter.org · 2mo agoFinish up summer reading with August’s WRITER’S CHRONICLE! Our Big Conversation discusses small press publishing & leads into our next TWC Live! event on 11/12. Get tips for creating antagonists, learn how to breathe life into historical fiction & more!
Molly Gaudry’s hybrid-genre memoir FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR, a finalist for the #FirecrackerAward in Creative Nonfiction, is another important book to add to your reading list! #SummerReading @rosemetalpress.bsky.social rosemetalpress.com/books/fit-in...
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Fit Into Me
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The Anchored World by @sawers.bsky.social is one of those collections that lingers years after reading. whether based fable or fairy tale, each flash comes with teeth. grab their collection from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social #smokelong #blurbchallenge
Thank you to @bookshop.org for featuring our 2026 Firecracker Awards finalists on their home page! Browse the reading list and join us at the virtual ceremony tomorrow, June 25, where we’ll be announcing the winners: bookshop.org/lists/2026-f...
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It's not too late to join us tonight at 6 PM ET to celebrate independent literary publishers and learn the winners of the 2026 Firecracker Awards! Register now! www.clmp.org/event/2026-f...
I love the @rosemetalpress.bsky.social Field Guide writing series. I look forward to reading this new one!
Rose Metal Press@rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social, is available for preordering! The book releases in October & is the 5th in our award-winning Field Guide series! Everything you've ever wanted to know about lyric essay! icont.ac/51iZr
The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social, is available for preordering! The book releases in October & is the 5th in our award-winning Field Guide series! Everything you've ever wanted to know about lyric essay! icont.ac/51iZr
Wherein Molly Gaudry reads from FIT INTO ME (Rose Metal Press), a Finalist for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2025 BIG OTHER Readers' Choice Award! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVIH... Cc: @rosemetalpress.bsky.social
2025 BIG OTHER Book Award Finalist Molly Gaudry Reads from FIT INTO ME
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Friday Links is UP! Featuring Molly Gaudry, @harshawalia.bsky.social @spsullivan.bsky.social @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social @ryaninevanston.bsky.social @mollydevore.bsky.social @katpham.bsky.social and MORE (in the next post actually) www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658480
FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR by Molly Gaudry, published by @rosemetalpress.bsky.social, is a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. Celebrate with us on June 25: www.clmp.org/event/2026-f...
2026 Firecracker Awards Ceremony - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
GATHERING
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Today on the site graduate intern Cassidy Rousseau interviews Naomi Cohn about her @rosemetalpress.bsky.social The Braille Encyclopedia, experimental forms, and artistic insight as a blind writer. www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...
An Interview with Naomi Cohn
Naomi Cohn’s book, titled The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight, showcases Cohn’s experience with progressive vision loss through examinations of the definitions of words, personal c...
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