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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
🎙️SATURDAY 01/10 Durham, 7p: BCP Presents Liza Hudock with Sam Canney, Laura Morrison, & Golden Age Comedy at Mettlesome Theater! #WereBackBaby details: buff.ly/XKKU0XQ
January 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Our end-of-year sale ends tonight; many thanks and best wishes in the new year!
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December 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🎉#HappyPubDay AND PARIS IS BEAUTIFUL TOO by Adam Berlin is on sale NOW! Grab your copy here: buff.ly/dbOEjWT
December 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Covered in eyes, / the tree evokes a different kind of beast: soundless, / but not sightless."

Stefanie Kirby, from "Tragedy" | REMAINDER is part of our end-of-year 25% off 2025 titles sale: buff.ly/9G2r1D0
December 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🎉#HappyPubDay AND PARIS IS BEAUTIFUL TOO by Adam Berlin is on sale NOW! Grab your copy here: buff.ly/dbOEjWT
December 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#SaveTheDate 🎙️our reading series returns in January at Mettlesome Theater (1/10) AND the House Party is back in February (2/28)! details: buff.ly/V1sFmnV
December 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“Daniel Wallace’s BENEATH THE MOON AND LONG DEAD STARS—fables? allegories? short-short stories? —offers everything I want: characters consumed with longing, of uncomfortable situations, of regrets and (often wrong-headed) solutions." —George Singleton | 25% off our 2025 titles: buff.ly/9G2r1D0
December 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
📚Some of your favorite BCP poets—Tiana Clark, Christian Collier, Kate Daniels, & Jim Whiteside are in this Tennessee Bundle of FOUR titles for only $25.00! buff.ly/B77jqq1
December 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"Direct your eye right inward and you’ll find / only Walden ice / and stick after stick"

from WE ARE NOT WHERE WE ARE An Erasing of Thoreau’s Walden by Matt Donovan & Jenny George | our end-of year sale is here: buff.ly/9G2r1D0
December 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📚Get any of these 2025 titles at 25% off for our end-of-year sale! Here: buff.ly/9G2r1D0
December 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"At midnight on Christmas Eve, / all the animals in me knelt—"

Annie Woodford's "Old Christmas" from WHEN GOD WAS A CHILD (Inch #56) 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
📚 25% off 2025 titles—includes eBook versions of books from this year; available a great price and for immediate download! browse the sale here: buff.ly/9G2r1D0
December 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Get a full helping of flash fiction in this INCH Fiction Bundle featuring 8 issues of "latter-day" INCH along with the 3-eBook set of INCH "the early years"—includes work by Khadijah Queen, Stace Budzko, Michael McFee, Glenn Shaheen, & many more! buff.ly/B77jqq1
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"The things men speak about in a place where men cut men’s hair. He can pick a conversation topic out of the air and wrap it around the chair like a tarp. He makes conversation thin paper, and he wraps it around our throats."

from UNSTABLE CONTAINER by John LaPine | 25% off sale: buff.ly/9G2r1D0
December 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Don't miss this powerful essay from #BCPpoet Marlin M Jenkins (CAPABLE MONSTERS) that appears at //LAB: interdisciplinary conversations and new writing from Graywolf Press// here: buff.ly/ABIsy9f
December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Sometimes I just need to walk. The streets are busy. I’ll come back soon. I’ve only ever come back for them."

from "Day 4/Madrid" | preorder AND PARIS IS BEAUTIFUL TOO by Adam Berlin | on-sale 12/30 | buff.ly/w4GiCu5
December 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"a boy leaves / bloody footprints on the floor / looking for a boy’s bag / looking for a boy’s shoes / a boy leaves / footprints on the bloody floor"

from "Last Night" by James Daniels, GOD-DAMNED EDEN | Our 25% off sale is here: buff.ly/9G2r1D0
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#SaveTheDate 🎙️our reading series returns in January at Mettlesome Theater (1/10) AND the House Party is back in February (2/28)! details: buff.ly/V1sFmnV
December 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
All TEN Frost Place Competition winning titles by: Ethan Chua, Ae Hee Lee, Armen Davoudian, Cassandra J. Bruner, Yuki Tanaka, Conor Bracken, Tiana Clark, Anders Carlson-Wee, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, & Jill Osier in one bundle! buff.ly/bVdUwsG
December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🎉Big congrats to all the poets on this year's National Book Critics Circle longlist--especially #BCPpoet Yuki Tanaka, 2018 Winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Competition with SÉ ANCE IN DYALIGHT. longlist announcement: buff.ly/q4pCEOo
December 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"I wake & I can’t even. Level up, the sea / confirms, urges me, like a swim bladder, to rise— "

from "Reparations" by Cate Lycurgus, SEACLIFF | Our 25% off sale is here: buff.ly/m5J4P1A
December 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"The balcony looks sunset west, building-framed pinks, / and around / the curve I can’t see, never revised, a constant forward, / even if it’s cyclical, / new day, new day, new day, new day, new day, new day" —Adam Berlin

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December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🥳Our end-of-year sale is here: 25% off 2025 titles!🥂https://buff.ly/m5J4P1A
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
📚Get this bundle of collections by SEMO Cowles Poetry Prize-winning poets: Emma Bolden, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Haesong Kwon, & Corrie Lynn White! All FOUR for only $30! buff.ly/bVdUwsG
December 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"But I go. Like sitting in churches with their condemnations. The quiet, the order, the exhales of awe."

from "Day 4/Madrid" | preorder AND PARIS IS BEAUTIFUL TOO by Adam Berlin | on-sale 12/30 | buff.ly/w4GiCu5
December 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM