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July 7, 2026

An Interview with Valerie Hsiung, Author of The pedestrian

Valerie Hsiung’s The pedestrian is a hybrid novel, a contaminated lullaby, and a distorted detective story that encircles a mother, a child, a house, a body. Through its maze of uncanny repetitions and ritual…

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June 13, 2026

Congrats To Our Two 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winners!!!

Congrats to our two 2026 Lambda Literary Award winners!!! Bianca Rae Messinger's pleasureis amiracle won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry! & Charlie Porter's Nova Scotia House won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction! Read more here.

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June 11, 2026

Nightboat to reissue ‘Stone Butch Blues’ by Leslie Feinberg in 2027

Nightboat is overjoyed to share that we’re reissuing Leslie Feinberg’s classic of revolutionary queer literature, Stone Butch Blues, in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats in Fall 2027! Leslie Feinberg’s novel, first published by Firebrand Books…

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May 19, 2026

An Interview with Antonio Ochoa, Author of Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo

Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo is Antonio Ochoa’s first bilingual collection, a work that moves in spirals of “oscillation between hemispheres,” between poetry and prose, between Spanish and English, between experience and memory. In this conversation, Ochoa and Dante Silva discuss translation as “transcreation,” Mexico’s colonial and multicultural history, and how the algae species sargassum invokes the interconnected currents of ecology, history, and politics. —Lucia Kan-Sperling Dante Silva: Is this your first translation of your own work? How did working across (and around) languages shape the writing? Antonio Ochoa: Yes, this is the first time that I’ve worked using…

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May 5, 2026

An Interview with imogen smith, Author of raw & zero

imogen smith's evanescent second collection raw & zero enters the world "in an epoch of pandemic, genocide, mass war, poverty, corruption, & environmental destruction," yet “in the center there is / hope," steamy, sexy…

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April 28, 2026

An Interview with Tisa Bryant, Author of Residual

In Residual, Tisa Bryant weaves together memories, scenes from the life of her late mother, and her own research into the lives of other Black women writers and artists into an intimate hybrid memoir. Central to the work is the relation between grief and the archive, and the way the latter can act as “a site of Black life and afterlife, presence being asserted, reframed, affirmed.” In this conversation, we discuss “spiral retelling,” the many definitions of “residue,” and how writing can inhabit a “death-bent sense of time.” —Lucia Kan-Sperling Lucia Kan-Sperling: The title Residual points both to a surplus and a…

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April 21, 2026

An Interview with Yongyu Chen, Author of Perennial Counterpart

In Perennial Counterpart, Yongyu Chen’s debut poetry collection, reading, like friendship, is “a way of life.” With an elliptical, contemplative voice and a scholar’s critical disposition, Chen attends to all things that both connect…

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April 14, 2026

Announcing Nightboat’s 2025 Poetry Prize Winners!

Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Nightboat Poetry Prize! We received over 1000 manuscripts to our Poetry Prize this year, submissions which encompassed a full range of aesthetic approaches, structures, and themes. We need no further proof that literature today is thriving, dynamic, socially engaged, and politically aware. It was thrilling to discover new voices. Nightboat Books has chosen two manuscripts as winners of this year’s Nightboat Poetry Prize. These titles will be published in 2028. The winners of the 2025 Nightboat Poetry Prize are: Painstar, Starline by Michelle Alexander Queen of the Little Stinkers by Izzy Casey Congratulations to our winners! Read more about…

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April 6, 2026

An Interview with Soham Patel, Author of The Daughter Industry

Soham Patel's The Daughter Industry is at once an imagined performance, hauntological confession, and polyvocal chorus. The cast of "players" includes Sasmita ("limber, gender-fluid, jesterlike"), Sajani (a "venerated femme mother"), and Sarah ("likely a…

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March 17, 2026

Anne Boyer on Nothing at All

The following is excerpted from Anne Boyer's introduction to Olivia Tapiero's Nothing at All, translated from the French by Kit Schluter. Translated with a fierce precision by Kit Schluter, Olivia Tapiero’s Nothing at All is an urgent, visceral meditation on dissolution. Tapiero’s nothing is hungry, moody. It gives birth, mutes the stars. It begins as a black hole—a cosmic riddle about claustrophobic emptiness. But the black hole has sisters: the difficult body, the sea, oblivion, the erasures of history. “If every galaxy has a black hole at its center,” writes Tapiero, “it is possible that every black hole contains a universe.”…

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February 23, 2026

Join Nightboat in Baltimore for AWP

We’ll be in Baltimore for the 2026 AWP Conference. Please join us at our offsite and conference events and visit our booth #1068 to get your book signed! All offsite events are free and open…

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February 5, 2026

Announcing the 2025 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 three manuscripts for publication in 2028! Read more about each of the manuscripts below: The First Third by Isis Awad The First Third is written in a sharp-witted, hilarious, sometimes wayward first-person that addresses subjects including abjection, ambiguous intimacies, and its author’s own artistic impulses. From Cairo to the United States, Isis Awad follows shame to find something much brighter, stranger, more revelatory; a “wild, wet, consensual truth” that’s also a riposte to traditional trans narratives, adamant about “unlearning linearity.” Isis…