Blue Cubicle Press is an independent publisher based in Texas. We publish three award-winning, internationally recognized literary journals, The First Line, The Last Line, and Workers Write!, chapbooks in our Overtime series, and books we enjoy reading. For twenty-five years, we’ve given voice to writers who realize their words may never pay the bills but who are too stubborn to stop trying.

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 The First Line and The Last Line

The purpose of The First Line and The Last Line is to jump-start the imagination – to help writers break through the block that is the blank page. Each issue contains short stories and poems that stem from or end with a common line. The First Line and The Last Line are exercises in creativity for writers and a chance for readers to see how many different directions we can take when we start from – or end at – the same place.

Workers Write! and Overtime

In 2005, we published Tales from the Cubicle, a collection of stories and poems from the office worker's point of view. Each year since, we've published works about various occupations. Overtime, a series of one-story chapbooks, was created to showcase longer workplace tales. Workers Write! and Overtime have become important voices in working-class literature. We are collecting the stories and poems about jobs that define who we are as individuals and communities.