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Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies @assayjournal.bsky.social · 4h

Fresh from our new fall issue, Joanna Eleftheriou's marvelous interview with Heidi Czerwiec, co-editor of the almost-hot-off-the-press Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay! Read more at buff.ly/RS9ht8O!

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tonight!

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AWP @awpwriter.org · 21/08/2026

A new issue of TWC is here, and with it comes “The Big Conversation: Behind the Scenes of Small Press Publishing.” Publishers and editors discuss the mission, logistics, and enduring appeal of the small press. This article is available to all readers.

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The Big Conversation

Diane Goettel of Black Lawrence Press, Abigail Beckel of Rose Metal Press, EJ Colen of Tupelo Press, and Maya Marshall of Haymarket Books discuss the mission, logistics, and enduring appeal of the…

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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Friday Links is UP! Featuring @amorak.bsky.social @morganelisej.thetriibe.com @laurentheisen.bsky.social and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658703

four books on a shelf: MOUTH by Amorak Huey, Army of Giants by Matthew Rohrer, Ghostographs by Maria Romasco Moore, and John's Table by Lesle Lewis

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Winning Writers @winningwriters.com · 27/07/2026

Deadline Sep 13: CRAFT Flash Prose Prize Submit unpublished fiction and creative nonfiction. 3 winners will each receive $1,000, a bundle of Rose Metal Press Field Guides, and publication in CRAFT. Fee: $20 for 1-2 prose works up to 1,000 words each. loom.ly/w33IldQ

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Join us in September for a marathon reading alongside Printers Row Lit Fest! We'll be highlighting over a dozen indie presses with rapid-fire readings 📚❤️ We attempted this last year for the first time & it was a huge hit.

Printers Row Lit Fest
Offsite Reading Marathon

Celebrating Indie Presses in Chicago
Hosted by Pizama Press & neonpajamas

Adam Voith (Little Engines)
Mallory Smart (House of Vlad)
Chris Bower (Rose Metal Press)
Jacob Stovall (Apocalypse Confidential)
Aug Stone (Sagging Meniscus)
Meghan Lamb (Always Crashing)
Erik Gliem (Raging Opossum)
Joshua Bohnsack (Long Day Press)
Nick Rossi (Ursus Americanus)
Adrian Sobol (Malarkey Books)
Timothy Michalik (Copenhagen/Food)
Adam Kovac (Maudlin House)
Julián Martinez (Future Tense Books)
David Welch (JackLeg Press)
& more to be announced!

Friday, September 11
@ The Whistler
2421 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Doors: 6:00pm
Readings: 6:15pm-8:00pm

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We're pleased to announce that the Best Small Fictions Nomination Period is now open! This is an open call to journal, magazine, and book editors who publish flash fiction. Note that writers cannot submit their own work for consideration. The full specifications are on Submittable (link in bio).

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Grateful to be part of this important small press publishing discussion with our friends at @blacklawrence.bsky.social, @haymarketbooks.org, and @tupelopress.bsky.social! Check it out and join us for the live conversation on November 12!

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Molly Gaudry’s hybrid-genre memoir FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR, a finalist for the #FirecrackerAward in Creative Nonfiction, is another important book to add to your reading list! #SummerReading @rosemetalpress.bsky.social rosemetalpress.com/books/fit-in...

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Fit Into Me | Rose Metal Press

Fit Into Me

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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Anchored World by @sawers.bsky.social is one of those collections that lingers years after reading. whether based fable or fairy tale, each flash comes with teeth. grab their collection from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Book cover of Jasmine Sawers’ The Anchored World. Cover image is a haunting gray and white face in watercolor.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Thank you to @bookshop.org for featuring our 2026 Firecracker Awards finalists on their home page! Browse the reading list and join us at the virtual ceremony tomorrow, June 25, where we’ll be announcing the winners: bookshop.org/lists/2026-f...

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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's not too late to join us tonight at 6 PM ET to celebrate independent literary publishers and learn the winners of the 2026 Firecracker Awards! Register now! www.clmp.org/event/2026-f...

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Kim Z @observacious.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I love the @rosemetalpress.bsky.social Field Guide writing series. I look forward to reading this new one!

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social, is available for preordering! The book releases in October & is the 5th in our award-winning Field Guide series! Everything you've ever wanted to know about lyric essay! icont.ac/51iZr

book cover for The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay. Cover is green with black, outlined, and mosaic crows on it.

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Wherein Molly Gaudry reads from FIT INTO ME (Rose Metal Press), a Finalist for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2025 BIG OTHER Readers' Choice Award! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVIH... Cc: @rosemetalpress.bsky.social

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2025 BIG OTHER Book Award Finalist Molly Gaudry Reads from FIT INTO ME

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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Friday Links is UP! Featuring Molly Gaudry, @harshawalia.bsky.social @spsullivan.bsky.social @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social @ryaninevanston.bsky.social @mollydevore.bsky.social @katpham.bsky.social and MORE (in the next post actually) www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658480

a book, FIT INTO ME by Molly Gaudry, next to a coffee cup with a duck on it

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR by Molly Gaudry, published by @rosemetalpress.bsky.social, is a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. Celebrate with us on June 25: www.clmp.org/event/2026-f...

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2026 Firecracker Awards Ceremony - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

GATHERING

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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Today on the site graduate intern Cassidy Rousseau interviews Naomi Cohn about her @rosemetalpress.bsky.social The Braille Encyclopedia, experimental forms, and artistic insight as a blind writer. www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

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An Interview with Naomi Cohn

Naomi Cohn’s book, titled The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight, showcases Cohn’s experience with progressive vision loss through examinations of the definitions of words, personal c...

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We are so thrilled that Molly Gaudry's Rose Metal book FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR is a finalist for a Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction! Congrats to Molly and all the finalists, and we can't wait for the June 25 winner reveal!

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Got the very good news today that my book won bronze in the Essay category in the Foreword INDIES awards, very grateful to @rosemetalpress.bsky.social for giving this book a life and to all who have read it or will read it in the future www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winne...

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2025 Foreword INDIES Winners in Essays (Adult Nonfiction)

These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The Essays winners of the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Nice review of my book in Painted Bride Quarterly, please note you can still buy It All Felt Impossible everywhere that books exist pbqmag.org/patrick-park...

Dealing with the entirety of one’s life as McAllister does it seems a daunting task, especially given the brevity of each year’s entry and selecting from each of those years an event that denotes, at least at the outset, an event important enough to build upon. Many times, his instincts steer him in the direction of an incident which allows him a logical leap to broaden the experience into something more meaningful, often noting the importance of an event in a coda that provides not so much a moral as it does a final, open-eyed observation.

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

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2025 BIG OTHER Book Award Finalist Molly Gaudry Reads from FIT INTO ME

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Congratulations to FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR by Molly Gaudry, published by @rosemetalpress.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction! rosemetalpress.com/books/fit-in...

A dark blue graphic with fireworks, the cover of FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR by Molly Gaudry, and text reading "Finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction" and "Winners will be announced in a virtual ceremony on June 25 at 6 PM ET."

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Thrilled to announce that Molly Gaudry's fantastic FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR is a finalist for @clmporg.bsky.social's Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. Congrats to everybody who is nominated!

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Earlier in May we poemed while people waited at the Chicago Literary Salon & were impressed w/how the evening made books the center of conversations among strangers. On 7/8 Man Overboard! will be featured & part of the proceeds go to @rosemetalpress.bsky.social www.hastybooklist.com/hbl-store/an...

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An Evening with Kathleen Rooney: Man Overboard!

Join the Chicago Literary Salon on July 8 for an intimate evening with bestselling author Kathleen Rooney celebrating Man Overboard! at Liminal. Your ticket includes a signed book, themed cocktail and...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR by Molly Gaudry, published by @rosemetalpress.bsky.social: rosemetalpress.com/books/fit-in...

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Fit Into Me | Rose Metal Press

Fit Into Me

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Redivider @redividermag.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Blurred Genres submissions are open till May 31st. We welcome all hybrid, genre-blurring and experimental work. Submit your flash nonfiction, visual sci-fi poetry, memoir comics, mixed-media fiction collage with a dash of cultural critique, digital or drawn media. Submit Via Submittable!

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Read nonfiction from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social this #APAHeritageMonth! In FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR, Molly Gaudry “embarks on a search for belonging amid loss, framing her memoir around a fictional narrative featuring the tea house woman.” rosemetalpress.com/books/fit-in...

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Fit Into Me | Rose Metal Press

Fit Into Me

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My book has been out for almost exactly 1 year. Working with @rosemetalpress.bsky.social has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my publishing life + I still feel very proud of the writing I did here. Recently, a stranger emailed to say it was "actually better than I expected."

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Read Naomi Cohn’s THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA for #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth! This memoir “shapeshifts between lyric essay and prose poetry and traverses the divides between lived experience, history, and scientific knowledge.” @rosemetalpress.bsky.social rosemetalpress.com/books/the-br...

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The Braille Encyclopedia | Rose Metal Press

The Braille Encyclopedia

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Now only 11 days to send your entry to the $2,500-first-prize SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026. Ends midnight ET on May 10. The final countdown starts tomorrow.

SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026 poster with cream coloured vintage instant flash camera

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

RMP author Molly Gaudry was recently on the Pushing Forward with Alycia podcast, discussing the concussion that changed everything for her and eventually led to her writing her hybrid memoir FIT INTO ME: alyciaanderson.com/the-concussi...

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The Concussion That Changed Everything

International keynote speaker Alycia Anderson shares insights on leadership, disability inclusion, accessibility, and empowering people to show up fully and authentically.

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Heidi Czerwiec @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Preorders open in May! And I'm ridiculously in love with that collaged bird. And with Lee. And all the authors.

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Cover reveal for our newest Field Guide, releasing in September 2026, The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social! Thanks to Pamela Callahan for more amazing crow artwork! Book details here: rosemetalpress.com/cover-reveal...

Book cover with green background with painted crows, some brown-black and one multi-colored.

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Elizabeth Spann Craig @elizabethspanncraig.com · 08/10/2025

Three Authors on Writing With Creative Constraints: buff.ly/OUwJyey from Naomi Cohn, Darien Gee, and Tom McAllister #wkb36

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This is the last week you can get free shipping on any and all of our books using code AWPFREESHIP at checkout! Free shipping ends Sunday! Order now: rosemetalpress.com/rmp/all-books/

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All Books | Rose Metal Press

Rose Metal Press - an independent publisher of hybrid genres

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

In FIT INTO ME, Molly Gaudry “embarks on a search for belonging amid loss, framing her memoir around a fictional narrative featuring the tea house woman.” Nonfiction from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social for #WomensHistoryMonth: rosemetalpress.com/books/fit-in...

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

AWP! Come see author Molly Gaudry at table 639 and have her sign a copy of her new book, FIT INTO ME! Now until 2:30 pm! #AWP26

Molly Gaudry holding her new book FIT INTO ME at the AWP book fair

Author Molly Gaudry signing a copy of her new book FIT INTO ME at table 639 at the book fair

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

AWP folks! Now until 1 pm! Come meet @kelceyervick.bsky.social, @jesselkercheval.bsky.social and Amy Kurtzweil at table 639 signing their books!

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

AWP Baltimore! Come see us at table 639 at the book fair! We have super sales, swag, and tote bags! Plus we are part of the AWP scavenger hunt this year, so get your card stamped here! #AWP2026

RMP cofounders Abby Beckel and Kathleen Rooney stand behind their AWP book fair table.

The Rose Metal Press book fair table (639) with RMP books on easels.

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

AWP folks! Now until noon come see @tmcallister.bsky.social and have him sign a copy of It All Felt Impossible for you! Table 639 at the book fair!

Author Tom McAllister holding his book at the AWP bookfair

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Come see us at table 639 at the AWP book fair this week! Check out all our author panels and book signings here! rosemetalpress.com/readings-eve...

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Readings & Events | Rose Metal Press

Readings & Events

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jamiechesbro.bsky.social @jamiechesbro.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

@rosemetalpress.bsky.social Not sure why so many people are posting about #AWP when they could be home reading @tmcallister.bsky.social‘s book.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Jamie's right, cancel your trips, order your books (or if it's too late to cancel, come by the @rosemetalpress.bsky.social table on Thurs at 11 or the Rutgers table Friday at 10 for signed copies)

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