Contests
Post: Announcing Nightboat’s 2023 Poetry Prize Winners!
Announcing the Winners of the Nightboat Poetry Prize! This year we received over 950 submissions to our annual poetry prize. We are excited to announce that the Nightboat editors have chosen three manuscripts for publication in 2025 […]
Post: Announcing Nightboat’s 2022 Poetry Prize Winners!
This year we received over nine hundred submissions to our annual poetry prize. We are excited to announce that the Nightboat Editors have chosen two manuscripts for publication in 2024! […]
Post: Prose Reading Period
PROSE READING PERIOD We’re thrilled to announce that Nightboat Books is considering prose manuscripts from July 1-Aug 15 2019. Please familiarize yourself with Nightboat Books’s editorial affinities by checking out our […]
Post: Call for Submissions: Radical Trans Poetics Anthology
WHAT: Nightboat Books is excited to invite submissions for an anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, co-edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel. By “radical” we mean to suggest two overlapping aims, […]
Post: Editorial Selection: Vibratory Milieu by Carrie Hunter
Congrats to Carrie Hunter! Vibratory Milieu for publication in Fall 2020 Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, is on the editorial board of Black […]
Post: Editorial Selection: active receptions / sodometers by Noah Ross
Congrats to Noah Ross! active receptions / sodometers for publication in Winter 2021 Noah Ross is an East Bay bookseller, the author of Swell (Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, 2019) and a co-editor […]
Post: 2018 Poetry Prize Winner!
Congratulations to Carlos Lara, 2018 Nightboat Poetry Prize Winner! Here is Kazim Ali’s full editorial citation for Lara’s Like Bismuth When I Enter: Carlos Lara’s Like Bismuth When I Enter enters […]