Caelan Ernest Nardone
Post: Engaging Black Poetics: Authors & Interns Part 2
As a publisher of experimental and genre-bending works, Nightboat is indebted to Black literary and linguistic innovation. Black authors have often been at the forefront of movements that have allowed […]
Post: Congratulations to Our Four Firecracker Awards Finalists!
We’d like to congratulate our four Firecracker Awards Finalists! In the Creative Nonfiction Category: We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan edited by Ellis Martin & Zach Ozma, & Hatred of […]
Post: Engaging Black Poetics: Authors and Interns
Today is Juneteenth. The Civil War had ended years before enslaved people in Texas were notified. With the Black Lives Matter Movement going strong, we acknowledge how much work there […]
Post: Four Lammy Winners!
Thank you Lambda Literary for honoring four of our titles with 2020 Lambda Literary Awards! We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan edited by Ellis Martin & […]
Post: In Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
The Nightboat staff would like to take a moment to express our solidarity with the Black community & the Black Lives Matter movement. We understand the ways in which neutrality […]
Post: Time is the International Winner of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize!
Congratulations to Etel Adnan & Sarah Riggs! Time is the International winner of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize, receiving $65,000 in prize money. From the Judges’ Citation from the shortlist announcement: “‘I […]
Post: Xandria Phillips wins the Judith A. Markowitz Award from Lambda!
Xandria Phillips wins the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers from Lambda! The award recognizes LGBTQ-identified writers whose work demonstrates their strong potential for promising careers. Two Emerging […]
Post: people in space by Aldrin Valdez
I’ve been making these small works on paper. A simple way to describe what they depict is: people in space. In each drawing/painting, a figure exists in an ambiguous setting—or […]
Post: Brian Teare receives a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship!
Brian Teare, author of Doomstead Days, has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for the year of 2020! From Brian’s fellowship bio: Brian Teare’s most recent book, Doomstead Days, offers a series of […]
Post: 2020 Lambda Literary Awards Finalists!
Nightboat Books is delighted because we have seven finalists for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards, listed by category below: Transgender Nonfiction We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries […]
Post: Visit Nightboat at AWP 2020!
Come visit Nightboat in San Antonio for AWP! We’ll be at Booth #1045 at the Book Fair, with our full lineup of author signings: THURSDAY: 1-2pm: Jared Stanley (author of […]
Post: Announcing Nightboat’s Poetry Prize Winner!
Congratulations to Muriel Leung, Nightboat’s Poetry Prize Winner! Read Kazim Ali’s full editorial citation for Leung’s Imagine Us, The Swarm below: “Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us, The Swarm offers seven powerful texts […]