We’re excited to be heading in to 2018 with our amazing team. Check out some of the newest faces in the newest places at Bull City Press! Forthcoming from Jill Osier: from Jill Osier, winner of the 2013 Frost Place Chapbook Competition, is returning to Bull City Press with a new chapbook of poems entitled from. from will appear in hardcover in Spring 2018. Jill Osier is the author of Should Our Undoing Come Down Upon Us White (Bull City Press), winner…
Congratulations Carmen Maria Machado whose book Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press) has been named a fiction finalist for the 2017 National Book Award! Machado appeared in Inch #20–Spring 2013 with her flash fiction, “Dating Men with Biblical Names.” Since that time, she has been a reader for Inch submissions and Inch has reflected her invaluable contributions. Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press) was published this year and has been immediately met with wide praise: “Carmen Maria Machado…
by Michael Parker Whether ferrying slowly across an eastern North Carolina river or reaching out to touch a train that’s not about to stop, the wanderers in these stories yearn for what they can’t quite grasp. It might be what they’ve left behind or what lies ahead, but whatever it is, it won’t leave them alone. Regret and marvel, trouble and love—it’s Everything, Then and Since. “These stories are miracles of concision. And, like all enduring stories, there is nothing short…
We are thrilled to have two exciting titles join the Bull City Press catalog. Then Winter, Editors’ Selection from the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition, by Chloe Honum. In Defense of Monsters, re-issued essays on cryptids for those that want to believe… or are struggling to, by B.J. Hollars.
December 19, 2016 from The Best American Poetry blog A Husbandry of Risk and Want in a House Run by Mothers: Dante Di Stefano Reviews Tommye Blount’s What Are We Not For What Are We Not For Tommye Blount Bull City Press, 2016 Tommye Blount’s debut chapbook, What Are We Not For, artfully explores what it means to live inside a black queer body at this particular time in American history. Blount’s sinewy poems are bound together with countless silken ties of…