Bass Clef Books
Cecilia ◊ Kentucky
Launched in 2022, Bass Clef Books is a small, independent press based in the heartland of Kentucky, USA.
BCB’s mission is to promote contemporary works of writing that would be essential to the growth of creative language crafts from a broad aesthetic choir through a general submission platform and the George Drew Chapbook Contest.
Occasionally, we will offer an anthology, which may include, fiction and nonfiction.
We will announce special projects as they emerge.
The publisher welcomes all voices and forms.
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Winner of BCB's 2026 George Drew Chapbook Contest
Sandra Anfang Fin: Death Rap
Judge George Drew remarked
I really love the way [Sandra] handles the character of Death. Seriously, but with a sense of play, too. I also think the poems are varied in their forms---
a pantoum and a villanelle, no less!---and that, overall, they are accessible to both novice and experienced readers.
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The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan recounts the adventures of the mariner monk Saint Brendan (c. AD 484—c. 577), who some scholars believe sailed from his native Ireland to North America. After his death, tales about his travels circulated and were eventually recorded in Latin prose in the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, which dates from the ninth century. It is widely regarded as one of the significant prose epics of medieval Latin. . . . Brendan's story gained great popularity in the later Middle Ages, which saw vernacular versions emerge in prose and in verse, some translating or closely following the Navigatio, others being freer versions of the original materials. It is in the tradition these freer vernacular treatments that I have written The Sea-Crossing.
$25.00
Readers of John Cullen will simply be astounded to see such transformation from his Town Crazy poems of 2013 to these new stunning poems which take us on such a different journey in his The Observation of Basic Matter. These are poems far beyond whatever we might think imagination might be like as his leaps in language are sometimes just astounding. To say these poems are rich and evocative even of our own lives is not enough. They read more like a primer for life on earth, full of science, wonder, sadness, regret and yes, grieving. John helps us to imagine “whatever gives security/ in this world, of which we can’t be sure.”
—DeWitt Clinton author of The Conquistador Dog Texts and The Coyot. Inca Texts (New Rivers Press).
War, Women and Words: An Anthology of Works by Female Ukrainian Veterans
Volume I
As the Ukranian war continues, read of the experiences from actual female Ukranian veterans in their own words. This anthology contains other creative content from the same authors translated from Ukranian and Russian.
