News
-
Gift Cards Are a Go!
Hello readers and writers! We’ve been making small (but fun) changes to the website this month and are now able to offer digital gift cards! Seems like small potato stuff, we know, but for us it’s a big leap forward in creating a more full experience for our patrons. So, we thought we’d tell you…
-
“Community Partnerships” Launch
We thought we’d take a few minutes to bring you up to speed, dear readers, about who and what we’ve been up to all year! As you already know, we’ve been working on crafting books all year (duh), but not just our own! We’ve also been working with self-published authors to help them publish and…
-
Watch the Book Launch: Terrain by Gina Hietpas
Did you miss the official launch of Gina Hietpas’ debut poetry book, Terrain,on September 10th? Don’t worry if you did, we recorded the event so those who didn’t get a chance to join us could tune-in later! Watch the video below to hear Gina read from Terrain, and to hear a short Q&A with the…
-
¡Book Giveaway!
We’re crazy about our newest chapbooks, The Bedouin | There Are No False Alarms, by Yousef Allouzi and Samuel Snoek-Brown, respectively, and we think you will be, too, once you get your hands on them! To celebrate these beautifully crafted, memoir chapbooks and the hard work the authors put into writing them, we’re offering a…
-
Publisher Christina Butcher ft. on “We Art Tacoma”
Last week, BCP publisher and poet Christina Butcher recorded a podcast episode with our friends at We Art Tacoma, a podcast about the arts in Tacoma, Washington, and the story of the people behind the art. Listen to the podcast here and enjoy a short conversation between Christina and We Art Tacoma host, Erik Hanberg,…
-
Virtual Book Launch & Reading Is a Go!
We’d like to invite you to join us on Monday, July 20 at 7PM, for a short, digital reading and book launch for Yousef Allouzi and Samuel Snoek-Brown! Both authors will read from and answers questions about their newly published chapbooks, which are launching the same day! REGISTER FOR THE EVENT (registration is required!) by…
-
New Logo!
Did you notice we updated our logo this month?! Doesn’t it look bad-ass AND beautiful??!! Well, we think so! We couldn’t be more delighted with our new logo, which we feel reflects our content and style much more than its (still lovely) predecessor. We made the logo shift earlier this month, after becoming completely obsessed…
-
Now Offering: Poetry Workshop led by avery r. young
We’re pinching ourselves to make sure it’s really happening: avery r. young is headed back to Tacoma, and he’s holding a workshop with Blue Cactus Press, followed by a reading and book signing at King’s Books. Yup, definitely hapening. We’re excited to announce that on April 5th, Blue Cactus Press is welcoming writer, performer, educator…
-
We’re Taking Pre-Orders!
That’s right, it’s officially time to pre-order your copy of our two newest poetry books: What Us Is by Kellie Richardson (Richardson’s debut poetry collection, newly re-published with BCP and sporting a swanky new cover design) Publication Date: March 1, 2020Price: $17.00Pre-order here What Us Is offers readers a glimpse into the head space of one…
-
The Prickly Pear Podcast & Libro.fm are in cahoots!
Guess what, friends?! Libro.fm, our favorite independent audiobook platform, is our new podcast sponsor! Libro.fm is the first and only company which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (we’re looking at you, King’s Books). When you sign up for Libro.fm, you can pick from more than 125,000 audiobooks, including New York…