Nightboat Books

Nightboat Books is an American nonprofit literary press founded in 2004 and located in Brooklyn, New York. The press publishes poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and intergenre books.[1]

The press was founded in 2004 by Kazim Ali[2] and Jennifer Chapis.[3] In 2007, Stephen Motika became publisher.[4] Nightboat Books publishes manuscripts accepted through general submission and annually awards a $1,000 prize and publication for a book of poems.[5]

Nightboat Books are distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.[6] The press has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts,[7] the New York State Council on the Arts,[8] the Jerome Foundation,[9] the Fund for Poetry, and the Topanga Fund.[10]

Notable authors published by Nightboat Books include Dawn Lundy Martin,[11] Nathanaël, Joanne Kyger, Cole Swensen,[12] Melissa Buzzeo, Daniel Borzutzky, Bhanu Kapil, Jill Magi, Wayne Koestenbaum,[13] Etel Adnan,[14] and Fanny Howe.[15][16] Brian Blanchfield's book A Several World, published by Nightboat Books, was the 2014 recipient of the James Laughlin Award[17] and was long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award.[18][19][20] Brandon Som's Nightboat Books publication, The Tribute Horse, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for a debut book of poetry[21] and was selected as a finalist for the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for poetry.[22] In 2013, Nightboat published Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, the first comprehensive poetry collection by trans and genderqueer authors,[23] which went on to be a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Award in LGBT Anthologies.[24]