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Rose Metal Press [1]

Basic Information
Address: 
P.O. Box 1956
Zip / Postal Code: 
02446
Submission Guidelines: 
https://rosemetalpress.com/submit-your-work [2]
City: 
Brookline
Website: 
https://rosemetalpress.com [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
Massachusetts
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Editor
Contact First Name: 
Kathleen
Rooney
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Monday, June 1, 2026 to Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months
Book Types: 
Chapbook
Novella
Short story collections
Essay collections
Novel
Memoir
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
E-book
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
No
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
Itasca
Tips From the Editor: 

Please see our website for submission periods. We tend not to have them very often since we only put out two books a year.

Titles per Year: 
1 to 5
Editorial Focus: 

Founded in January of 2006, Rose Metal Press is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher whose mission is to produce beautiful books in hybrid genres, by which they mean short short stories, prose poetry, flash nonfiction, novels-in-verse, book-length linked narrative poems, image and text collaborations, and other literary works that move beyond the traditional genres of poetry, fiction, and essay to find new forms of expression.

Representative Authors: 

Carol Guess, Jasmine Sawers, Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, Naomi Cohn, Dinty W. Moore, Kelcey Ervick, Tom Hart, Del and Sofia Samatar, Nicole Rivas, Juditha Dowd, Mar Romasco Moore, David Carlin, Aaron Angello, Nicole Walker, Molly Gaudry

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
1-2
Publishing type: 
online and print [4]
Subgenres: 
Cross-genre [5]
Flash Fiction [6]
Graphic/Illustrated [7]
Prose Poetry [8]
Temporarily closed to submissions
Source URL:https://www.pw.org/small_presses/rose_metal_press

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/rose_metal_press [2] https://rosemetalpress.com/submit-your-work [3] https://rosemetalpress.com [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/online_and_print [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/graphic-illustrated [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry