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March 25, 2022

Nightboat Books Editorial Fellowship

Nightboat Books is delighted to announce our new Editorial Fellowship, a program designed to support an aspiring BIPOC editor in developing a book project of their choosing for publication at Nightboat! Over the course of…

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March 1, 2022

CURB by Divya Victor is the Winner of Two Major Awards!

We;re thrilled to share that CURB by Divya Victor is the winner of the PEN Open Book Award, which confers a $10,000 prize and a fully-funded artist residency at Civitella Ranieri to an author of color! Congratulations to Divya, and all the finalists and winners of the PEN America Literary Awards. You can view the full list of the finalists here. We are also thrilled to share that CURB by Divya Victor has been named the winner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, which presents $100,000 to a mid-career poet! She will receive the award during a ceremony on April…

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February 22, 2022

A Conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum, author of Ultramarine, and Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala

Happy publication day to Wayne Koestenbaum's Ultramarine, the closing title in the acclaimed trance poem trilogy (the previous two collections include The Pink Trance Notebooks and Camp Marmalade). To celebrate this milestone Nightboat Fellow Snigdha Koirala speaks to Wayne about desire, void, dreams, and cultivating a steady kind of pleasure in his new book. Take a look below! 15346

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February 18, 2022

Mónica de la Torre is the recipient of two major awards!

We're excited to share that Mónica de la Torre is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award and the C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts! We're thrilled to be the publisher of her most recent collection, Repetition Nineteen, a genre-defying project that focuses on translation as displacement, mediation, and a form of code-switching. The C.D. Wright Award is given "to a poet over the age of 50 whose work exemplifies Wright's vibrant lyricism, seriousness, and striking originality." —Foundation for Contemporary Arts For her Creative Capital Award, she'll be working on an ambitious "book-length literary hybrid whose…

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December 21, 2021

Announcing Nightboat New Year’s Promotions!

Happy New Year from Nightboat Books! In 2021, we debuted our subscription program–offering subscribers our complete annual catalog at a 25% discount–and were delighted by the response. For 2022, we’re excited to share that we’ll be revamping our subscription program, and introducing a few new other ways to stay up-to-date with the Nightboat catalog!  Meanwhile, if you’re still looking for a last-minute holiday gift, or if you’re not sure where to start exploring the Nightboat catalog, keep reading for our staff-curated reading lists, organized by interest. Nightboat subscriptions are a perfect gift for the lover of provocative and risk-taking literature in your…

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