That little letterpress publisher in your mind
Bateau Press publishes chapbooks and an annual magazine, churning out the highest quality, well-designed, environmentally minded package of literature known to man. As of 2016, Bateau is housed within the human ecologically sound superstructure of College of the Atlantic.
We publish a hand sewn letterpress chapbook from our annual contest & a book from our new Instruction Manual series.
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Stella Corso’s chapbook, the people were lovely, but i was not, is the winner of Bateau’s 24/25 BOOM Chapbook Competition. There were many amazing manuscripts to choose from. Thank you to everyone who entered. Look for the people were lovely, but i was not in the spring of 2025. big love, Bateau
FINALISTS for BATEAU’S BOOM CONTEST 24/25
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FINALISTS for BATEAU’S BOOM CONTEST 24/25 *
EG Cunningham: Track Record
Stella Corso: the people were lovely, but I was not
Julie Benesh: Now Playing: Poems
Roxanne Ward: Editor, Unedited
James D'Agostino: Dissipatriot
Alex Tretbar: According to the Plat Thereof
Ryan Collins: A Preserved Darkness
Seth Copeland: Backcountry Shadows
Ilan Mochari: Playthings
John Jodzio: Guns and Gold
Joe Milazzo: Public Domain
Christopher Brean Murray: The Fugitive Lands
Hunting the Bugs
2.22.24
Preorder now available! Hunting the Bugs by Jack Gaiour!!
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1.29.24
Coming soon from Bateau Press: The Pedagogical Philosophy of Ash Yang-Thompson
11.7.23
Bateau is happy to announce out latest BOOM chapbook winner: hunting the bugs by Jack Giaour.
We had a tough time picking a winner with so much good writing that challenged and delighted us. Congratulations to the finalists and to Jack on kicking our collective asses. hunting the bugs will be out March 1, 2024.
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