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June 4, 2025

Announcing the 2025 Nightboat Prose Reading Period!

We’re thrilled to announce that Nightboat Books is considering prose manuscripts from June 9th-August 1st, 2025. Please familiarize yourself with our editorial affinities by checking out our catalogue. Buy our books! Borrow them from the library! Read them! We’re looking for innovative prose manuscripts of formally experimental fiction and/or nonfiction. We welcome prose translations, international anglophone writing, and multi-lingual texts. We’re most excited about projects that disrupt our expectations of what prose can do. No strict forms. No limits. Your manuscript might include poetry and poetic sections, but we’re not considering full-length poetry collections at this time. We’re looking for…

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