Rose Metal Press

Welcome to Rose Metal Press. We invite you to browse through our store and shop with confidence. We invite you to create an account with us if you like, or shop as a guest. Either way, your shopping cart will be active until you leave the store.

Thank you for visiting and for supporting independent publishing!

2012 Chapbook Contest Reading Fee

Reading fee for 6th annual short short chapbook contest.

A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness

Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women By Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia Smith

Betty Superman

Short Short Stories by Tiff Holland. Winner of the 5th Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest, judged by Kim Chinquee

Both Field Guides at a special discounted rate

Get both The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry together for a special discounted price!

Brevity & Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories

Edited by Abigail Beckel and Kathleen Rooney

Color Plates

Color Plates by Adam Golaski, a museum of small fictions

Friend

All 3 books (2 full length and 1 limited-edition chapbook) delivered to you at the time the book is released, plus your copy of the chapbook will be signed by the author. Your name will be listed on our website.

How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic

A book-length poem by Peter Jay Shippy

In the Land of the Free

By Geoffrey Forsyth

Patron

All 3 books (2 full length and 1 limited-edition chapbook) delivered to you at the time the book is released, plus your copies of all 3 books will be signed by the authors or editors. Your name will be listed on our website.

Subscriber

All 3 books (2 full length and 1 limited-edition chapbook) delivered to you at the time the book is released.

Supporter, Level 1

Receive a broadside (flat) copy of the letterpressed cover of our 2010 limited-edition chapbook, and help fund its printing.

Supporter, Level 2

Receive a copy of our 2010 limited-edition chapbook as soon as it is released this summer and help us fund the specialty letterpress printing of the chapbook covers.

Supporter, Level 3

Receive a signed copy of our 2010 limited-edition chapbook as soon as it is released this summer and help us fund the specialty letterpress printing of the chapbook covers.

Supporter, Level 4

Receive the spring and fall full-length books as soon as they publish

Sustainer

All 3 books (2 full length and 1 limited-edition chapbook) delivered to you at the time the book is released, plus your copies of the chapbook and fall single-author book will be signed by the authors. Your name will be listed on our website.

The Louisiana Purchase by Jim Goar

The linked poems in The Louisiana Purchase carry the reader past Ozzie Smith and Thomas Jefferson into a world where the moon is an outlaw, a weeping elephant flees from the authorities, the Pinkertons upset the sky, effigies of Phil Niekro are burned, and a society made of words collapses.