
Rose Metal Press is not accepting queries or manuscripts for consideration at this time outside of our annual chapbook contest submissions. Please check back to see when we our next reading period might be or consider submitting to our fall chapbook contest for short shorts.
ANNUAL SHORT SHORT CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Our Seventh Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest submission period begins November 1 and ends December 1, 2012. Our 2012 judge will be Deb Olin Unferth. The winner will have his/her chapbook published in summer 2013, with an introduction by the contest judge. During the submission period, please email your 25–40 page double-spaced manuscript of short short stories (fiction or nonfiction) each under 1000 words to us here with a $10 reading fee via Paypal or check.
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in your manuscript may have appeared in journals, both in print and online, as long as the entire collection itself is unpublished.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.