Three Books Selected From Our Spring Open Reading Period

We are thrilled to announce that we have chosen THREE new books from our Spring 2013 Open Reading Period. We received 234 submissions, and the breadth and creativity of what's being done in hybrid genres was truly inspiring. Submission periods always reaffirm our dedication to our mission to support and publish cross-genre writing—so many writers are pushing and subverting the boundaries of genre in interesting and innovative ways! Thanks to everyone who submitted!

The THREE fantastic books we've chosen to include in our upcoming publishing seasons are:

All Movies Love the Moon: Prose Poems on Silent Film

 A collection of linked prose poems that includes artwork and film title cards 

By Gregory Robinson 

SPRING 2014

The Voyager Record 

A re-imagined history of the Voyager Record Program presented in fragments, stories, and other prose 

By Anthony Michael Morena 

SPRING 2016

The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová 

A complex biography revealed in documents, letters, images, and stories 

By Kelcey Parker

FALL 2016

Congrats to Gregory, Anthony, and Kelcey!

Book Trailer for The Kind of Girl!

We're excited to release the book trailer for our 2013 contest-winning chapbook, The Kind of Girl, by Kim Henderson! The Kind of Girl was chosen by contest judge Deb Olin Unferth. It will launch as a limited edition chapbook with letterpressed covers in early August 2013—preorder will be available in July.




Thanks to Isaac Webb and Idyllwild Arts Academy for producing this trailer!

The Believer...

...believes in B. J. Best. Stephen Burt's outstanding review of Best's But Our Princess Is in Another Castle appears in the June 2013 issue of the magazine, whose cover looks like this...

...and whose interior looks like this...

You can read part of the review online here, and in that review, Burt writes: "You might expect this collection of prose poems—whose puns, extended metaphors, and multiple-purpose generalizations string together the story of the author’s life, from childhood to fatherhood, by way of sixty-three video games—to be a sweet exercise in old-school nerd nostalgia. (“Frogger,” for example, concludes: “Some things are too dangerous to cross.”) And yet B. J. Best gathers his power not from nostalgia, not from the mere contrast between a kid’s joys and a grown-up’s cares, but from a deeper dichotomy." 

Thanks, Stephen! 

Curbside Splendor and the Literateur...

...both have new reviews of Rose Metal Press titles, and both of those reviews are lovely.

In Curbside, Joey Pizzolato writes of But Our Princess Is in Another Castle by B.J. Best that: "This is not a book you read quickly; rather, dissect, spend the same innumerable hours with as you did playing video games when you were young and trying to get the high score in Pacman or beat Ganon in The Legend of Zelda.  Like video games, Best’s prose poems will take you to secret worlds filled with anything you can imagine (and some things you never thought you could). "

And in The Literateur, Nikolai Duffy writes of The Louisiana Purchase by Jim Goar that "It’s the ambition of this book that really sets it apart from much recent poetry. It’s tradition and life and learning shot through with the quirks of the individual. The fact that Rose Metal Press have wrapped all this up in the surrounds of a beautifully and thoughtfully produced book makes the experience of engaging with Goar’s text all the more enjoyable."

Thanks, Joey and Nikolai!

The Believer believes in Rose Metal Press...

...specifically in But Our Princess Is in Another Castle by B.J. Best, which Stephen Burt reviews here in the June 2013 issue of the magazine, writing: "You might expect this collection of prose poems—whose puns, extended metaphors, and multiple-purpose generalizations string together the story of the author’s life, from childhood to fatherhood, by way of sixty-three video games—to be a sweet exercise in old-school nerd nostalgia. [...]And yet B. J. Best gathers his power not from nostalgia, not from the mere contrast between a kid’s joys and a grown-up’s cares, but from a deeper dichotomy."

Over here at Redivider, Charlotte Seley reviews Shampoo Horns by Aaron Teel, writing that it "...does more than entice with the specificity of location and objects. Although it could be arguably considered a 'coming of age' story in flash fiction, the centrality of the chapbook appears anchored in brotherhood and solidarity among boys trying to define themselves as me."

And last but not least, over here at New Pages, Elizabeth O'Brien reviews The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction edited by Dinty W. Moore, writing: "The feel of the book is part inspiration, part technical craft talk—some chapters feel geared toward beginners while others feel more appropriate to advanced/more experienced writers—guaranteeing that the book will well serve writers of every experience level interested in flash nonfiction." 

Thanks to Stephen, Charlotte, and Elizabeth for the thoughtful reviews!