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Post: Nightboat Books Spring / Summer 2022 Catalog!
We’re thrilled to share our catalog for our upcoming 2022 spring & summer season! Read more about each forthcoming title below. For advance review copy requests, please email: [email protected]
Post: Announcing the 2021 Prose Reading Period Selections! ✨
This year we received hundreds of submissions to our Prose Reading Period. We are excited to announce that we are accepting four manuscripts for publication! Read more about each of […]
Post: The Sunflower Cast a Spell by Jackie Wang a National Book Awards Finalist!
Congratulations Jackie Wang! We are thrilled to announce that Jackie Wang’s The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void is a Finalist for the 2021 National Book Awards in Poetry! […]
Post: Virtual Book Tour for Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam!
Announcing the Virtual Book Tour for Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam! Friday, 9/17 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET hosted by Books Are Magic with NM Esc, Sahar Khraibani, Andrea Lawlor, Eileen Myles […]
Post: An Interview With Nightboat Books in Literary Hub!
“Every book has a backstory: to hold one of Nightboat Books’ publications is to have the sense of a longer, more complex, and ultimately more rewarding backstory than most.”—Corinne Segal […]
Post: Marwa Helal and Xandria Phillips are Whiting Awards Winners! ✨
Marwa Helal (author of Invasive species) and Xandria Phillips (author of Hull) are both 2021 Whiting Awards winners! Since 1985, the Whiting Foundation has supported creative writing through the Whiting Awards, given […]
Post: Toxicon and Arachne by Joyelle McSweeney a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts!
We are thrilled to share that Toxicon and Arachne by Joyelle McSweeney is a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, which presents $100,000 to a mid-career poet! The winner will […]
Post: Two Nightboat Titles Nominated for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards & Publishing Triangle Awards!
We’re thrilled to share that Neotenica by Joon Oluchi Lee and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel both are finalists for two awards: […]
Post: Announcing Our Poetry Prize Winners! ✨
This year we received hundreds of submissions to our annual poetry prize. We are excited to announce that we are accepting four manuscripts for publication! Read more about each of the prize-winning manuscripts […]
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: 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 […]