Bull City Press Submissions

Bull City Press

Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, Memoir, Bio, Poetry
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About Bull City Press

Bull City Press is an independent, small press based in North Carolina. It was founded in 2005 to publish chapbooks and occasionally full-length books of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, as well as the quarterly journal Inch.

Bull City also hosts events, including two reading series, in the Durham/Chapel Hill area of North Carolina and beyond; a podcast; an incubator program for new journals, presses, podcasts, and literary ventures; and occasional virtual readings. W

Bull City Press has a passion for the unusual, the surprising, and the arresting, but what they love most is the miracle of compression. Whether it’s poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction—a Bull City Press book is small but mighty..

While they started with a mostly-poetry approach, they launched a line of fiction and non-fiction chapbooks when they merged with Origami Zoo Press in 2015. Since then, they have also acquired titles from publishers who have ceased operations, such as Southeastern Missouri Press Cowles Prize winners and selections from Backbone Press.

Bull City is a proud member of CLMP and is distributed to the trade by IPG.

Bull City Press Submissions

Unsolicited submissions okay. No agent required.

March 15 – April 15: submissions open for short collections of poems, short fiction, and short memoir. For the magazine.

May 15 – June 15: Poetry Books and Chapbooks Open Reading Period. This reading period is open to poetry, as well as non-fiction and fiction.

All submissions must go through their electronic submissions manager.

Meet the Staff

Ross White (Executive Director) – Ross is the author of Charm Offensive, winner of the Sexton Prize. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Daily, New England Review, The Southern Review, and others. He is a recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Sicily, and currently teaches poetry writing and grammar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined Bull City Press in July 2006.

Noah Stetzer (Associate Director) – Noah is the author of Because I Can See Needing a Knife (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016). Noah’s poems have appeared in various journals including Sixth Finch, Waxwing, The Cortland Review, Hobart, and New England Review. He is a 2014 fellow from the Lambda Literary Retreat and a returning work-study scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He joined Bull City Press in August 2015 and became Associate Director in August 2018.

Pamela Berkman (Managing Editor) – Pamela poetry has appeared in Instant Noodles (Devil’s Party Press) and Loud Coffee. Pam is the author of the short story collections Her Infinite Variety: Stories of Shakespeare and the Women He Loved (Simon and Schuster). Pam has many years of experience in editorial and production roles in the publishing industry. She joined Bull City Press in November 2024.

Thanks, Bull City Staff, for everything you do.

Meet the Rest of the Staff: bullcitypress.com/about-us/staff

Thank you and Happy Publishing!

Bull City Press
1217 Odyssey Dr.
Durham, NC 27713
+1 (919) 883.5585

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