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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: 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: 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: Time Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize!
Congratulations to Etel Adnan & Sarah Riggs! Time is shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. From the announcement: “Judges Paula Meehan (Ireland), Kei Miller (Jamaica/UK), and Hoa Nguyen (Canada) each […]
Post: An Update from Us
Dear Friends, We hope this finds you with warmth and care. We have a few updates we’d like to share. On Monday, March 30th, we collaborated with The Anchoress Syndicate […]
Post: Nightboat Illuminations: Our New Instagram Series!
We’re excited to announce Nightboat Illuminations: a new series of intimate readings, performances, portraits, correspondences and more from our authors! Don’t miss out! Make sure you’re following our Instagram here. […]
Post: Bhanu Kapil is a Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize!
Congratulations to Bhanu Kapil, who is one of the recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prize! Taken from the Windham Campbell website, they say: “Through transgressive, lyrical language Bhanu Kapil undoes multiple […]
Post: A Message from Us
Dear Friends, We hope you are all supported during this precarious and challenging time. The Nightboat staff and interns live and work in two of the states hit hardest by […]
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 […]