Rose Metal Press Chapbook Contest

Rose Metal Press’s  Fifth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest submission period begins October 15 and ends December 1, 2010. This year’s 2010 judge will be  Kim Chinquee.

During the submission period, please email your 25—40 page double-spaced manuscript of short short stories under 1,000 words each to  rosemetalpress@gmail.com either as Word docs or rtf files. Individual stories may have appeared in journals or anthologies, but they ask that collections as a whole be previously unpublished. Please accompany your entry with the $10 reading fee, either via the payment button on our  website or by check. They  prefer the former, but the latter can be sent to PO Box 1956, Brookline, MA 02446.

Writers of both fiction and nonfiction are encouraged to enter, and they are open to short shorts on all subjects and in all styles. Check out the books of our previous contest winners, including, most recently  How Some  People Like Their Eggs by  Sean Lovelace (selected by  Sherrie Flick) and  We Know What We Are by  Mary Hamilton (selected by  Dinty W. Moore).

The winner and finalists will be announced by February 2011. The winning chapbook will be published in July 2011 in a limited edition of 300 copies, with an introduction by the contest judge. As with all previous winners, Rose Metal Press will be letterpressing the covers of the winning chapbook by hand at the  Museum of Printing in North Andover, Massachusetts.