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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 the two years, the selected Fellow will become familiar with the full life cycle of a book, including developmental and conceptual editing, line editing, copy editing, permissions, design, cataloging, production, publicity, and marketing. The Fellow will receive $10,000 ($5,000 per year of the fellowship or according to the fellow's individual needs) for their work and participation in the program, as well as individualized mentorship and…

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March 8, 2022

Announcing the Nightboat Poetry Prize Winners! ✨

This year we received over nine hundred submissions to the annual Nightboat Poetry Prize. We are excited to announce that the Nightboat Editors have chosen four manuscripts for publication in 2023-2024!   Read more about each of the prize-winning manuscripts below.   Teeter by Kimberly Alidio Listening and sounding a way through Tagalog and Pangasinan, literary cultures, and ambient music, Kimberly Alidio performs a kind of echolocation, indexing the position of one body in relation to others. The record of this practice is Teeter: an evocative, sprawling score singing Filipinx histories and quotidian life. Though not all in diaspora will recognize its lyrics, they will…

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UltramarineNews | Programs |
February 22, 2022

Virtual Book Tour for Ultramarine by Wayne Koestenbaum!

Announcing the Virtual Book Tour for Ultramarine by Wayne Koestenbaum!   Thursday, 2/24 at 3pm PT /  6pm ET hosted by The New School with Angelo Nikolopoulos and Mark Bibbins. RSVP here.   Thursday, 3/3 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET hosted by City Lights with Ronaldo V. Wilson. RSVP here.   Tuesday, 3/15 hosted by 192 Books with Mónica de la Torre. Details TK.   Tuesday,  4/19 to Sunday, 4/24 hosted by Hammer Museum. More details here.

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Interviews |
February 18, 2022

Angel Dominguez on the Process of Writing Letters to Their Worst Enemy in Desgraciado

Today on the Nightboat blog, we're celebrating the publication of Angel Dominguez's Desgraciado (the collected letters)! Desgraciado, a project born as a response to the prompt “write a love letter to your worst enemy," is a collection of letters written to Diego de Landa,  a Spanish friar who attempted to destroy the written Maya language in the Yucatán on July 12, 1562 by burning codices, eight centuries of Mayan literature. Intimate and personal, Angel's letters offer a space beyond the temporal to connect more deeply with their family, community, and kin. Take a look at some of the letters and…

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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…

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red jordan arobateauInterviews |
December 17, 2021

Remembering Red Jordan Arobateau (1943–2021)

Red Jordan Arobateau died on Thursday, November 25, in San Francisco. The painter and literary sensation was seventy-eight years old. He left behind an enormous, unparalleled body of work in fiction, erotica, life writing, poetry, and visual arts. After leaving his home in Chicago as a teenager, Red Jordan Arobateau relocated briefly to New York City before arriving in San Francisco, where he remained for nearly six decades. Arobateau first self-published dyke novels and poetry in the 1970s, and over the years used small presses, gay and lesbian publishers, lesbian bars, and varied forms of self-publishing to share his voluminous…

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