2025 Highlights

2025 was a very productive and prosperous year for BTP! 

Some of our favorite highlights:

• We will have welcomed about 350 volunteers, donating around 8000hrs

• We grew our successful partnerships with 7 independent bookstores

• We hired a new Program Coordinator

• We caught up from being 5 months behind in Jan to being about a month and a half behind now 

• A fine reading by Board member Anne in Issaquah brought renewed interest to 'Dear Books to Prisoners', a sequel to which we hope to publish in 2026

• We brought together all the prison book programs from the Canadian border to northern Oregon  for the first time, in November. 

• Board member Michelle appeared on the True Crime Tonight podcast (listen on iheartradio or spotify)

• We featured in articles in Publisher's Weekly and WWU's The Front

• Michelle also contributed a piece on prison censorship to Book Riot

• We began training volunteers on sorting and shelving book donations, shout out to our Monday shelving crew!!