We hope you’re finding the online submission manager convenient. So far we’ve had a few bugs with the “withdraw” function, which are now fixed (we hope). If you were unable to withdraw your own submissions, please try again or contact us with further questions. Thanks again for your patience!
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ONLINE SUBMISSION MANAGER
Dear Bat Citizens,
As of June 1, we are delighted to announce that we will accept submissions exclusively through our online submission manager, which you may navigate to here. We will no longer accept unsolicited submissions via post or e-mail. If you submitted your work between November and June through e-mail [...]
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BCR 5 RELEASE PARTY!
We’re celebrating the release of a brand new Bat City Review. ISSUE FIVE. This one includes fiction from Pushcart Prize winner Nami Mun, an interview with award-winning novelists Mark Richard and Michael Parker, and poetry from Dara Wier, Joshua Beckman, Mathias Svalina and SO many others. We’re also thrilled to [...]
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Three Small Presses, One BIG Read
Bat City Review is teaming up with American Short Fiction and Dalton Publishing to host a lively evening of reading and music this Friday, March 6th, at Cafe Caffeine in Austin. The program includes ASF contributors Smith Henderson and Amelia Gray, Dalton’s Ric Williams, and BCR contributors Josh Morison and [...]
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Calling All Aspiring Literary Journal Editors!
Bat City hosts a writing workshop for sixth to eighth graders in the Austin area
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Bat City Review/Black Warrior Review/Mare Nostrum Reading February 12th (AWP Chicago)
Mark your calendars! On Thursday, February 12th, BCR will join forces with the Black Warrior Review and Mare Nostrum to feature contributors from our respective magazines. Matthew Zapruder, John Gallaher, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Betsy Wheeler, Elisabeth Benjamin, Jamey Bradbury, Rebecca Hoogs, Brandon Krieg, Zach Savich, and Adam Atkinson will read in [...]
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D.A. Powell makes us blush
In a recent blog entry for the Poetry Foundation’s website, D.A. Powell has the following to say about Bat City: “Edited by graduate students from the UT Austin program, the magazine features beautiful artwork and high-quality fiction. But the reason I bought it, and the reason I recommend it, is the [...]
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Kiersten Essenpreis Has Us Covered
BCR is excited to announce that Kiersten Essenpreis will be painting the cover of our fifth issue. The Chicago-born painter now lives in Brooklyn and has exhibited work in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, and the Philippines. Her clients include New York Times Magazine, Wired, Nylon, Maverick Records, and Bitch. [...]
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BCR Launches New Website
In anticipation of the publication of our fifth issue, we are launching a brand new website, designed by House Mouses. Take a look around. Our site is now equipped with online submission capabilities, a full database of contributors, and a brand new blog updated by our editors here at Bat [...]
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BCR Contributor Nami Mun publishes first novel
Nami Mun, a contributor to the upcoming issue of Bat City Review (#5) published her first novel, Miles from Nowhere, with Riverhead. Miles from nowhere follows a Korean teenage runaway through the streets of New York. The Chicago Tribune called Miles from Nowhere: “A gritty, riveting story… filled with soft [...]
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