One of the older books in our collection, Austin Batcave's 2010 Every Letter is one of their earliest published works. Poetry, advice, and reflections delight in this straightforward and powerful collection of youth writing from across the great city of Austin. Poems on courage, igloos, and flossing await.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “In Every Letter: Austin Anthology of Younger Writers, a plethora of voices emerge collectively. These voices declare their willingness to support and challenge notions of patriotism in the United States, question and raze older ideas of aesthetics, and testify and bear witness to the tribulations and troubles of their lives. Nothing is off limits for these young writers. Essays, poems, short fiction, and meditational pieces that purposely flout boundaries of genre and form lay bare topics that range from love to citizenship, from how to break in a house to a how-to on how to keep your best friend from stealing a girl you're interested in. The body of work is not only formally and topically diverse, but it is also tonally diverse. Several of the pieces are serious meditations upon family and what it means to belong while other pieces employ savage humor and whimsy to strike at truths central to these writers. What is more astonishing than the diversity of the body of work is the diversity of the writers. Austin is truly represented. Students at both public and private institutions, students from both the east and west side of I-35, students who took themselves seriously as writers and those who did not before this opportunity, all these students are published in the anthology. This anthology is a celebration of younger generation's voice. This anthology is a celebration of the hard work these young writers have put into their work. Now, let us listen.”