BatCat Press

Our sincere thanks to everyone who came out to support BatCat at LAVA! We hope you are as excited about our new titles as we are.

Speaking of which… check out our publications page for more on Ryan Ridge’s Ox and Renee Emerson’s Where Nothing Can Grow. Online ordering will be available beginning Monday, May 30.

We will continue to update the website in the coming days, so please bear with us! Also, don’t forget that our 2011 reading period begins June 1st. See our submissions page for more details, and spread the word!!

Website updates are in progress! Please excuse our temporary dishevelment.

BatCat Press will once again be at Lincoln Park’s LAVA Festival. Please come and join us for the official release of our 2011 titles, Ox by Ryan Ridge and Where Nothing Can Grow by Renee Emerson.

Other LAVA Events:
- Keynote Speaker Davy Rothbart, founder of Found magazine
- LPPACS Senior Reading and Video Screening
- LPPACS Student Art Show
- Student Writing and Media Awards
…and much more.

A detailed schedule will be available soon.

We have two new publications on deck for release in May, 2011: Ox, a poetry collection by Ryan Ridge, and Where Nothing Can Grow, a poetry chapbook by Renee Emerson. Demo copies of each title will be available for preview next week at AWP – we hope you’ll be able to stop by! In the meantime, click here to meet our 2011 authors.

Next week we will announce our new titles for 2011. We have two new projects that we’re very excited about and can’t wait to share with you!

Also, AWP is just around the corner – we will once again have a table at the bookfair, so drop by and visit! We’ll post more details as the date approaches.

This Sunday at SPF, BatCat will be hosting a FREE bookbinding workshop beginning at 4pm. We’ll cover basic techniques that anyone can use to create a little chapbook on the fly. Come make a book or two and meet the talented student staff!

It’s just another great reason to come to SPF. Hope to see you there!

BatCat Press will once again be represented at Pittsburgh’s Small Press Festival Expo. This year’s Expo is taking place at AIR: Artists Image Resource on Pittsburgh’s North Side on September 25 and 26, 12pm-5pm. And it’s FREE. All BatCat publications will be in stock, including:
The One That Counts
This Boy, This Broom
Butterslugs
Year Four
Ars Poetica
…plus a variety of handmade journals and notebooks.

Check out SPF’s website here.

Our summer reading period is now closed. Thanks to all who submitted! We have a lot to read and discuss over the coming weeks.

If you missed out on the July 31st deadline, do keep in mind that we accept queries all year round. See our submissions page for details.

Really, it’s more like two and a half.

Yes, the summer has been flying by, and so has our summer reading period. We’ve received an outstanding and overwhelming number of submissions so far – thank you! But there’s always room for more…

If you haven’t yet sent us your amazing manuscript, you can do so until 11:59pm on Saturday, July 31!