The Winner of our Sixth Annual Chapbook Contest Is...

...Shampoo Horns by Aaron Teel of Austin, Texas.

Contest judge Randall Brown selected Shampoo Horns out of a field of 104 submissions, and the chapbook will be published this coming July. You can sign up to receive the chapbook automatically when it launches by becoming a supporter here.

Thank you to all the authors who submitted—we had a terrific field of entrants this year.

The five finalists are:
First runner-up: Electives & Requisites by Marc Sheehan of Grand Rapids, MI
Second runner-up: Honey Work It Out by Nicolle Elizabeth of Boston, MA
Reprieve and Other Stories by Amy Bergen of Columbus, OH
From Here to There by Tyler Gillespie of Chicago, IL
Bottle Ghosts by Charlotte Porter of Island Grove, FL

The five semi-finalists are:
Block Party by Dorothy Albertini of Poughkeepsie, NY
Anthropocene by Berit Ellingsen of Norway
Rory Gilmore Wants to Fight by Joseph Goosey of Ponte Verde Beach, FL
This Is What Your Pile of Shoes Reminds Me of by Marie Potoczny of Richmond, VA
Out of the Wreckage by Ethel Rohan of San Francisco, CA

Congratulations to all of them!

The results of our Fifth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest

Contest judge Kim Chinquee has selected BETTY SUPERMAN by Tiff Holland of Round Rock, TX, as the winner of our fifth annual short short chapbook competition. We will be publishing this chapbook in July 2011, so keep an eye out for its release on our website! You can sign up to receive a copy of the winning chapbook as soon as it releases by becoming a supporter.

Our five other finalists include first runner-up Hello Friends and Neighbors by Kate Hill Cantrill of New York, NY; second runner-up The Children's Magical Garden by Amy Bergen of Brooklyn, NY; The Family Dogs by Christopher Bower of Chicago, IL; Extended Play in the Bottomless Pit by Andrew Farkas of Chicago, IL; and Migratory by Jessica Hollander of Northport, AL. Our four semi-finalists include Americans, Guests, or Us by Caren Beilin of Missoula, MT; Arktoi by Caroline Picard of Chicago , IL; Alienation and Winter Sports by Anji Reyner of Missoula, MT; and Unloading the Elephants by M Thompson of Seattle, WA. Congratulations to all of them!

We had our biggest submission year ever with 117 submissions. We are grateful to everyone who entered, and we enjoyed reading your work.

Rose Metal Press is thrilled to announce that HOW SOME PEOPLE LIKE THEIR EGGS by Sean Lovelace…

…has just been selected by Sherrie Flick as the winner of our Third Annual Short Short Chapbook contest! We will be publishing Sean’s manuscript as a limited edition chapbook this coming summer. In the meantime, you can read more about him at his blog here, and also here.

We would also like to recognize the following contest finalists:

Aaron Burch for Birthmarks
Stefanie Freele for Breathing Oysters
Molly Gaudry for Come See the Monkey & Other Stories
Jac Jemc for This Stranger She'd Invited In
Erika Mikkalo for 26 Letters

And semi-finalists:

Lisa Buchanan for Artifacts from the American Century
Dawn Corrigan for Under the Power Lines
Roseanne Griffeth for Getting There Eventually
Tiff Holland for Straight Out of the Can
Kate McCorkle for The Last Parakeet and Other Stories

We had received more entries this year than ever before, and we are extremely grateful to everyone who submitted. Thank you, as always, for letting us read your manuscripts, and for reminding us how much amazing short short prose is being written out there.