We are thrilled to announce that we have selected Terry Hudson as our 2025 Editorial Fellow!
Nightboat’s Editorial Fellowship is designed to provide an aspiring BIPOC editor with $10,000, along with the resources and mentorship necessary to develop and publish a book project of their choosing over the course of two years.
We are thrilled to work with Terry on their project. Over the course of their Nightboat Editorial Fellowship, Terry will work to bring a long out-of-print work back into the world.
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Terry Hudson (they/them) is a genderqueer poet, writer, and archivist raised on a Dexter cattle farm in Climax, NC. Inspired by a long lineage of radical Black writers, their work deals in recurring themes: Blackness, queerness, chronic illness, and the social power of memory work and the archive. In their free time, you can find them—if you hunt keenly enough—watching old horror movies, reading Claremont X-Men comics, or researching esoteric queer literature. Their writing can be found in publications such as Bloodletter magazine.
We are grateful to our panelists—Jaye Elizabeth Elijah, Gia Gonzales, Naima Yael Tokunow—and the Nightboat staff, who were honored to read the wealth of project proposals received.
We would like to congratulate our finalists:
Destiny Hemphill
Laila Riazi
Egbert Vongmalaithong
To learn more about Nightboat’s Editorial Fellowship and Terry, click here!