Bateau Press

11/09/2025

2025 / 2026 BOOM Chapbook Finalists

Build Your Castle Out of Sugarcubes All Your Enemies Have Tongues by James D’Agostino

Elegies for One Small Future by Sara Femenella

Hazy Remnants of a Curious Dream by Howie Good

If all these stars are dead tell me what dead means by Andrew Robin

Infinity Ballot by Abigail Minor

Land of Light & Joy by Amish Trivedi

P/ROSES by Kevin McLellen

Odd fish by Guillermo Rebollo-Gil

Time is a Tranquilizer by Alicia Cook

Tiny Joy, Tiny Bane by Rocio Anica

Bateau would like to thank everyone who entered the BOOM chapbook contest this year. All of you will receive a copy of the winning chap or any in stock chapbook from our catalogue. We are in this together. ONWARD!

11/05/2025

Ash Yang Thompson LIVE!!! NOV 7.

08/05/2025

Mia Ayumi Malhotra in SEATTLE!

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06/07/2025

ASHLEY YANG-THOMPSON'S book Still Worm is out TODAY. Why should you buy this book? Well, just read the answer to that question below:

02/12/2025

Stella Corso's new chapbook is on presale!!!! https://www.bateaupress.com/the-people-were-lovely-but-i-was-not

11/21/2024

STELLA CORSO'S manuscript, the people were lovely, but I was not, is the winner of Bateau Press BOOM chapbook competition. We will letterpress the cover w/ Chris Fritton, we will hand sew the chapbooks (with lots of help) and we will get them into the world in the spring. xoxo

11/03/2024

WE GOT FINALISTS FOR THE CHAPBOOK CONTEST. ((see comment for link to website))

08/20/2024

https://bateaupress.submittable.com/submit

Welcome to the Bateau Press online submissions portal.We are accepting work for the BOOM Chapbook Contest (2024/25). Send us your best work.  Send us funny work, quirky work, outstanding work, work that is well punctuated or lacks punctuation.  Fearless work.  Work that wants to crash on our sof...

08/20/2024

it's that time again: BOOM

12/14/2023

In NYC? Need something to do this Friday, Saturday, Sunday? See Sommer Browning's one woman show, GOOD ACTORS. Sommer is awesome and a friend of Bateau Press. We wish we lived closer to anything other than lobsters.

11/01/2023

Huge love to the Bateau BOOM Chapbook Contest Finalists 23/24::::::

Brush Fire by Heidi Seaborn

Dreams of Labrador by Christopher Brean Murray

Elegy with Herons by Sarah Wetzel

hunting the bugs by Jack Giaour

The Afterforest by Brent Armendinger

The Arrogance of Days by Margo Berdeshevsky

The Other’s Season by Elizabeth Robinson

Grow A Cowboy by Von Wise

Blood is Thicker than Blood: Poems by Tiffany Promise

On Crying by Matthew Lippman