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Rockwood Press makes right-sized poetry chapbooks for people who need poems.
We believe chapbooks are an art form as much as a literary form, perfectly suited for revolution, protest, political change, and social critique. They can be both haunting and hauntingly beautiful.
We believe in emerging and established poets and aim to make room for all kinds of mighty voices in teeny books that might not otherwise find their way into the world.
We believe that a work doesn’t have to be full-length to have a full life. That’s why almost all of our releases are open editions.
minutes between city and forest is a sequence of prose poems inhabiting a borderland between urban and forested space. Assorted wildlife and a group of angels—benign? sinister?—descend upon a neighborhood. The community grapples with presences that suspend belief. In short, during a time when it was difficult for me to write directly about political divisions in my hometown, I found myself writing these gestures of uncertainty.
Ceridwen Hall is a poet and educator. Her books include Acoustic Shadows (Broadstone Books) and The School for Danger and Other Studies (forthcoming in 2026). Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Pembroke Magazine, The Cincinnati Review, Craft, Poet Lore, and other journals. She provides online coaching to help poets overcome creative blocks and assemble manuscripts. You can find her at www.ceridwenhall.com.
Details
Title: minutes between city and forest
Author: Ceridwen Hall
Publisher: Rockwood Press
Released: 2026 - July
Format: chapbook, acid-free paper, silk cover
Pages: 18
Price: $8
ISBN: 978-1-59498-233-0
minutes between city and forest
minutes between city and forest
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submissions
We select manuscripts through an open submissions process that occurs year-round.
Manuscripts should be tightly linked collections of ten to thirty poems or up to forty pages, submitted in .rtf, .doc, or .docx formats only. All submissions should be made via email. We do not accept unsolicited paper submissions.
Eligibility: Poets writing in English are eligible. Previous book publication is not a consideration. Simultaneous submissions are permissible, but entrants are asked to notify Rockwood Press immediately if a manuscript becomes committed elsewhere.
There is no open submission fee.
We do our best to reply to submissions within one month, but the time can vary depending on submission volume. If your work has not been accepted or declined, it’s still under consideration. Every submission is considered thoroughly before a response is made.
All submissions are eligible for publication by Rockwood Press with a standard royalty contract.
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If we seem familiar
That’s because, Rockwood Press, a not-for-profit literary imprint, is a project of Fernwood Press and its parent company, Barclay Press. For years, we’ve made our books and full-length poetry collections available through POD services, but we wanted to produce more books in-house where we have control over color, texture, paper quality, and the overall shape each project takes.
We’ve also seen a ten-fold increase in poetry submissions over the last year and sensed from our conversations with writers that it’s getting harder and harder to find homes for good work.
The project of Rockwood Press is to bring more great poetry into the world in smaller, focused collections that can be produced locally, quickly, and beautifully.
