BatCat Press

Thanks to all who came to our book release last night, and a special thanks to Kevin Haworth and Noah Falck for reading and signing! It was an extremely successful night and we’re so thankful for your support.

Far Out All My Life and Snowmen Losing Weight are now available for purchase. While we continue to work on getting our pretty new website off the ground, we have set up a new store with Google Checkout: click here to go to the store. Quantities are quite limited.

The LAVA Festival is in full swing here at Lincoln Park, and later today our 2012 authors will be reading and their books will be released to the public for the first time.

Online ordering will be made available by Monday, May 21. In the meantime, here’s a preview!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table at AWP last week! We have very limited quantities remaining of our 2011 titles Ox and Where Nothing Can Grow, so if you’ve been meaning to snag a copy, now’s the time! Visit our purchasing post or just send us an email at batcatpress@gmail.com.

ALSO: We are very excited to announce our 2012 titles: Snowmen Losing Weight, a poetry collection by Noah Falck and Far Out All My Life, a collection of creative non-fiction by Kevin Haworth. Both titles will be released at the LPPACS LAVA Festival, May 16 – 17, in Midland, PA. Check back soon for more on these amazing writers and for further details on LAVA!

The AWP Bookfair is just about the corner! Come visit us at table F6. We’ll have books ready for perusing, journals ready for filling, and we’ll be bringing along a few surprises. In addition, we’ll also be announcing our new titles for 2012. It’s sure to be a lovely time! Come by the table and chat.

All submissions have been read and we are working our way toward making a final decision as to our 2012 publications. If you submitted a manuscript to us during the 2011 Summer Reading Period, please know that we are working as fast as we can to respond to your submission. Some emails have already been sent, and many more are on the way. If you have not yet heard from us, we are on track to have all responses out by Dec. 21, so keep an eye on your inbox.

Thank you all for your patience!

We will be at this year’s Handmade Arcade at Pittsburgh’s convention center on Saturday, November 12. Come and join us! We will have all of our recent publications available for purchase as well as an array of handmade journals and sketchbooks.

While Handmade Arcade isn’t a “literary” gathering, it is a celebration of craft. Binding by hand is one of our passions, and we’re excited to be involved in this unique event!

It’s hard to believe it’s already the end of July! We’re looking forward to welcoming our new staff next month and having a look at our new space, which is currently being renovated. It’s been a productive summer so far, and we have some exciting things on the horizon!

There are still a few more days to submit to our summer reading period! We are taking any and all submissions through July 31. And to all of those who have already submitted, thank you! We will be in touch soon.

In other news, Rosemary Macuga, author of 2010′s The One That Counts will be reading and giving a presentation at the Seven Spring Storywalk on August 20th. If you are in the area, come out to meet her and have an in-person look at The One That Counts. More copies will be made available shortly!

Also don’t forget that our 2011 titles, Ox by Ryan Ridge and Where Nothing Can Grow by Renee Emerson are both still available for purchase online: click here.

First of all, thanks to everyone who has already submitted work for our current reading period! But it’s not over yet, of course – we’re taking all submissions through July 31, 2011. See our submissions page for more details.

Lately we’ve been trying to get the word out even further about BatCat. We’re now listed at both Poets & Writers and NewPages, both great resources if you haven’t already checked them out. We’d also like to remind everyone that we are on Facebook – add BatCat as your friend! (We promise not to send you any annoying messages.)

Also, don’t forget that our latest titles are available online at this link: click here. We are still working on getting a more formal online store up and running, but for now we’re using Google Checkout with Buy Now buttons. If you have any questions, feel free to email us!

This year has absolutely flown by, but here we are again, ready for your submissions!

What you need to know:
- Submissions are open to everyone. We welcome work from writers and artists of all ages, from the successfully published to those submitting work for the very first time.
- All genres and forms are welcome, including (but not limited to): fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, plays, novels, short story collections, graphic novels, children’s literature, illustrated works, multimedia or hybrid works, and so on and so forth.
- Submissions can be of any length. We publish in a variety of formats including everything from full-length books to petite chapbooks to broadsides. Any work that you consider worthy of standing alone, be it a full-length poetry book or a single brilliant piece of non-fiction, will be equally considered.

Submissions will be accepted through July 31, 2011. We also accept queries all year round, but we usually find our main publications through summer submissions, so send your work in soon!

Send submissions as an attachment (.pdf, .doc, or .rtf) to batcatpress@gmail.com. Please include a short introduction or cover letter (informal is fine!).

Our latest titles are now available to purchase online: click here. Currently, only our 2011 titles are available (Ox and Where Nothing Can Grow), but we’ll be working on making previous titles available in the coming weeks.

If you have any questions, email batcatpress@gmail.com!