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We are very excited to announce this year’s publications, Canyons by Jessica Poli and Ghost Woodpecker by Dustin Nightingale, are ready for their big debut! Our staff has been hard at work producing these complex books for well over a semester, using materials and techniques we have never worked with previously. Click the links above to find out moreContinue reading “New for 2018”

We are happy to announce two new titles acquired for 2017. Without further ado: Swamp Frank by Francesco Grisanzio and Parakeet by Jason Olsen! These mind-meltingly awesome poetry collections will officially debut at the annual LAVA Festival at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center in May, and will be available for purchase online on June 1,Continue reading “New in 2017!”

This past weekend we had the honor of being included in I Made It! for the Holidays at Nova Place in Pittsburgh. We had a great time selling our wares, not to mention chatting with customers and other vendors – maybe you were there! If you missed out, it’s not too late to get inContinue reading “Holiday Markets”

We are very excited to announce two new poetry collections for 2015: Apology to the Moon by Jim Daniels and The Bone and the Body by Laura Kochman Both titles will be released at Lincoln Park’s annual LAVA Festival and will be available online beginning in late May. Follow us on Facebook for updates andContinue reading “New for 2015”

Due to the overwhelming number of submissions we receive each year, we have established a new email account specifically for manuscripts. Please send all submissions to submit.batcatpress@gmail.com. If you have already submitted a manuscript to our main email, batcatpress@gmail.com, don’t worry – you do NOT need to resubmit. All other correspondence should continue to beContinue reading “Submitting? Take note…”

Our 2014 titles are now available in our Square Market store! Title pages have also been updated: Poems in Which You Die by Sarah Carson When You’re Down by the River by Christopher Lowe Surviving by Davy Rothbart We also want to take a moment and say thanks to everyone who was able to attendContinue reading “2014 Titles Now Available”

2014 marks our 5th anniversary, and we’re starting off the year in a big way – by taking on three new projects, each in a different genre, all to be released in May of this year. Without further ado, our 2014 projects are: Poetry by Sarah Carson! Fiction by Christopher Lowe! Creative nonfiction by DavyContinue reading “2014 = Amazing.”

We are beyond thrilled that we will once again be a part of Handmade Arcade, Pittsburgh’s premiere arts and crafts fair, now in its tenth year. We will be holding it down at table 96, back by the food and drink area, so please come and visit us! We will have more than a hundredContinue reading “Event: Handmade Arcade – Dec. 7”

Last spring we published Matthew Mahaney’s novella-in-verse, Your Attraction to Sharp Machines, which sold out very quickly. So quickly, in fact, that we decided to do a redesigned second edition! The second edition of Your Attraction to Sharp Machines presents a more traditional reading experience, in paperback, but with hand applied touches such as silverContinue reading “Sharp Machines pre-order now open!”