Bull City Press
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Small press publisher of poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction chapbooks located in Durham, NC | est. 2006 | https://bullcitypress.com | linktr.ee/bullcitypress | posts by @noahstetzer.bsky.social, @amelialoeffler.bsky.social, & @rosswhite.com
My cute little (very little!) chapbook is officially out today! 5 flash fictions in 22 pocket-size pages. Thank you, @bullcitypress.com! Ordering info: bullcitypress.com/.../youre-a-...
www.instagram.com/p/DcdFdxomx8... #SealeyChallenge 21/31 Equilibrium by Tiana Clark Last of my haul from @bullcitypress.com but not the 1st time Clark has blown my socks off with her poetry. Winner of The Frost Place Chapbook Competition 2016 — still reads fresh (& shattering) a decade later…
Diana A on Instagram: "#SealeyChallenge 21/31 Equilibrium by @tianaclarkypants The last of my book mail haul from @bullcitypress 11 months ago, but not the 1st time Clark has blown my socks off wit...
0 likes, 0 comments - dianalogbooks on August 25, 2026: "#SealeyChallenge 21/31 Equilibrium by @tianaclarkypants The last of my book mail haul from @bullcitypress 11 months ago, but not the 1st tim...
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Every time you buy a book from a small press, that publisher thinks, "Hmm, sales are picking up. I'll accept another manuscript."
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Aether and Ego by Joanne Merriam, Inanna Publications & And Yet Held by T. De Los Reyes, @bullcitypress.com. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram
www.instagram.com/p/Db404tDGxw... #SealeyChallenge 8/31 asterisk by Jenny George *️⃣ Another perfect chapbook from @bullcitypress.com, perfectly plane personal-item-sized, a bite of good (also bereft) ice ❄️
![Book sits on my (black-dress-clothed) lap, on an airplane.
Cover image (by Eli Afram) is a very zoomed-in (as if viewed through a microscope) asterisk-shaped snowflake taking up a whole windowpane (while the other few windowpanes, only partially seen, are fogged or frosted in a “normal” way) against a wintry night tree line.
Text, centered, in black, near the bottom edge, reads:
[small, ital.]poems
[larger]JENNY GEORGE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreic3vqyxvz3y5eqin3rhlpwsjps2aa7nom7cpunadtihthdhuueiza)
I have a mini-chapbook of flash fiction out in Sept, part of the (adorable!) INCH series @ @bullcitypress.com! YOU'RE A GIRL is abt <young women balanced on the precarious ledge where childhood edges into adulthood.> Preorder OR subscribe to the series (4x year). bullcitypress.com/product/your...
You’re a Girl by Leslie Pietrzyk (Inch #69)
by Leslie Pietrzyk Inch #69, Fall 2026 23 pages, saddle-stapled ISSN: 1932-6149 release date: September 30, 2026*
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www.instagram.com/p/DbnDntCGx0... #SealeyChallenge 3/31 Three Syllables Describing Addiction by Kate Daniels pulls no punches. Another 🌟 from @bullcitypress.com
![Book sits on silver platter etched with little stars.
Cover art is Robert Henry’s painting “Bird & Man II.” Lower half depicts a ground-sitting human figure, bent forward over raised knees, painted in dark silhouette over a red swath of background (suggestive of a plateau?). Upper half depicts a large dark bird perched in profile, facing the same direction as the human, over a pink/beige swath of sky.
In contrasting & complementary colors to the paining & evenly distributed over it in slightly dancing, slightly different sized text:
THREE
SYLLABLES
DESCRIBING
ADDICTION
[smaller] poems
[big again] KATE
DANIELS](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreigyxdgzgy2f6iq2uexxb5wnma5pjlcyg3j2n3hfuwy2oondczj6ym)
![Poem on p 36 of Daniels’s Three Syllables Describing Addiction reads
DRIED FLOWERS: VISION AT A
HALFWAY HOUSE
When the full-flowering blossoms of early spring
Are at their prime, slice them from their stems
While they are still pliable and gorgeous. Before
They murder themselves with their own dark beauty.
Then bind them up in loose bunches, and carry them
Inside to the dry heat of a dark back room where
Televisions run all day, and cigarettes burn
Unheeded in ashtrays. Outside, the unchosen blooms
Have overtaken the garden. They will go on dying
Naturally, and in their time. But here inside,
The chosen few are stored away, instructed to rest
For as long as it will take to achieve the dried-out state
That mimics life and keeps them breathing. Humming
Their tuneless tune: [ital.]Not using. Not using. Not using.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreib25f26fj5yedkeqbtdkjs36jvlqvohdbg3hsvmydc57ulmedlxnq)
August 8: Bull City Press Presents pairs literary readings with the best damn comedy in Durham. It's a series unlike any other!
A very happy pub day to our reissue of Naoko Fujimoto's MOTHER SAID, I WANT YOUR PAIN! bullcitypress.com/product/moth...
Look what came in the mail 😍😍😍 Loved blurbing this beauty by @jenwithwords.bsky.social published by @bullcitypress.com ❤️❤️❤️ bullcitypress.com/product/ligh...
she’s out in the world! and thank you to @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social for the cover 🦋
Bull City Press@bullcitypress.com · 3mo agoToday is pub day for Alison Lubar's AMERICAN KINTSUGI, a new microchap in the Inch series. Hooray!
Today is pub day for Alison Lubar's AMERICAN KINTSUGI, a new microchap in the Inch series. Hooray!
Over 650 manuscripts were submitted in our Chapbook Open Reading Period. We're hard at work reading-- and we're enjoying it so much!
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We cheered so hard last night that today we're Hoarse City Press. Congratulations to the Carolina Hurricanes!
Bull City Press@bullcitypress.com · 4mo agoWe're a North Carolina press. Nothing would make us happier than a Carolina Hurricanes win tonight! Also, we love how this much this Stormy logo looks like Barry the Bull.
We're a North Carolina press. Nothing would make us happier than a Carolina Hurricanes win tonight! Also, we love how this much this Stormy logo looks like Barry the Bull.
We love Arielle, who rocked our reading series last year.
Black Lawrence Press@blacklawrence.bsky.social · 4mo agoMeet Arielle Hebert, author of Bottom Feeders! ✨ Bottom Feeders is out June 16th from Black Lawrence Press—we can't wait for you to read these poems. 💜
Poetry, fiction, and comedy together again, this Saturday at 6:00 pm in Durham.
