A journal of surprising connections
Four times a year, Hitch publishes a micro-chapbook featuring one author, translated into English by one translator.
FIRST ISSUE COMING LATE FALL 2025.
About Hitch
We’re about range and variety: of styles, perspectives, languages, countries, regions, genres. We curate surprising harmonies.
We’re also about ongoingness. Translation isn’t a one-off: it’s an open-ended, evolving relationship between author, translator, and readers. Hitch publishes chapbooks: short enough to experiment in ways full-length books can’t, long enough to give readers space to settle into that relationship.
We also don’t take ourselves too seriously. We love books. Books are fun.
We’re planning the first issue of Hitch in November 2025. You’ll be able to buy back issues and subscribe to Hitch for $X per year.
We’ll email you six times a year: once when each issue drops, once when submissions open, and once when submissions are about to close.
We’d love to see your work
We want Hitch to be the best of both worlds for authors and translators: the flexibility of a journal with the feel of a book. We want to make room for bodies of work that stand on their own but might not be long or conventional enough to be a full-length manuscript.
Hitch will open for submissions in November 2025.
What we’re looking for
- 18-20 pages
- Submit work in any genre! We publish four issues per year: one fiction, one poetry, one nonfiction, and one wildcard. Every genre is fair game: journalism, memoir, playwriting, cross-genre and genreless experiments.
- Up to 75% of the work can be previously published in English. (Any amount can be previously published in the original language.)
Rights, permissions, compensation
- Just like when a journal publishes a one-off poem or story, Hitch holds U.S. rights for the English translation until the issue is published. After that, rights revert back to the original holder (usually the translator). This means the work can be republished elsewhere later, for instance, as part of a larger book.
- Before you submit, make sure you can provide explicit permission to publish your English translation. If the work is in the public domain, be prepared to provide evidence to confirm that.
- Payment details TBD
Bull City Press
Hitch is a publication of Bull City Press. BCP has published acclaimed authors including Roxanne Gay, Ananda Lima, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and many others, both in standalone books and in Hitch’s chapbook journal sibling, Inch.
Contact
submissions [at] bullcitypress [dot] com
HITCH c/o Bull City Press
1217 Odyssey Dr.
Durham, NC 27713