Nightboat Books
| Founded | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Founders | Kazim Ali and Jennifer Chapis |
| Successor | Stephen Motika |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Brooklyn, New York |
| Distribution | Consortium Book Sales and Distribution |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
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]
History
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 Literary Award in LGBT Anthologies.[24]
Notable books
- Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
- Andrew Durbin's Skyland
- Bernadette Mayer's The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters
- Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue
- Bruce Boom's Bruce Boone Dismembered
- Camille Roy's Honey Mine: Collected Stories
- Dawn Lundy Martin's Discipline
- Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian's Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977–1997
- Édouard Glissant's Sun of Consciousness
- Etel Adnan's Shifting the Silence
- Fanny Howe's Radical Love: Five Novels
- Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué's Oil and Candle
- Herve Guibert's My Manservant and Me
- imogen xtian smith's stemmy things
- Jackie Wang's The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void
- Kay Gabriel's A Queen in Bucks County
- Lou Sullivan, Ellis Martin, and Zach Ozm's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
- Mark Hyatt's So Much for Life
- Martine Syms and Rocket Caleshu's The African Desperate
- Nathanaël's Pasolini’s Our
- Paolo Javier's O.B.B.
- Rosie Stockton's Permanent Volta
- Wayne Koestenbaum's Ultramarine, The Pink Trance Notebooks, and Ultramarine
References
- ^ "Browse Catalog | Nightboat Books". www.nightboat.org. Archived from the original on August 28, 2012.
- ^ "Kazim Ali". May 30, 2020.
- ^ "About Nightboat Books". Nightboat Books.
- ^ "Stephen Motika". Nightboat Books.
- ^ "About the Prize | Nightboat Books". www.nightboat.org. Archived from the original on July 3, 2013.
- ^ Consortium Book Sales & Distribution.
- ^ National Endowment for the Arts – 2014 Fall Grant Announcement, November 24, 2014.
- ^ "Nightboat Books, Inc". NYSCA : New York State Council on the Arts.
- ^ "CLMP | the Face Out Program". www.clmp.org. Archived from the original on May 13, 2008.
- ^ "Order FAQ". Nightboat Books.
- ^ Lee, Sueyeun Juliette (November 2, 2014). "Life in a Box is a Pretty Life". Constant Critic.
- ^ "Fiction Book Review: Landscapes on a Train by Cole Swensen. Nightboat (UPNE, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-937658-41-0". Publishers Weekly. October 19, 2015.
- ^ Olidort, Shoshana (December 3, 2015). "Review: Wayne Koestenbaum's 'Pink Trance Notebooks'". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "Galerie Lelong: Etel Adnan, April 2, 2015 – May 8, 2015". NY Arts Magazine. March 29, 2015.
- ^ "Bookslut | the Lives of a Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken by Fanny Howe".
- ^ "Fanny Howe by Kim Jensen". BOMB Magazine. January 1, 2013. Retrieved January 31, 2023.
- ^ "James Laughlin Award | Academy of American Poets". poets.org.
- ^ "2014 National Book Awards Longlist For Poetry" (PDF). September 16, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 23, 2015. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
- ^ Kawler, Kelly (September 17, 2014). "National Book Award longlists announced". USA Today.
- ^ Schmidt, Christopher (October 3, 2014). "Small-Press Poets Recognized by the National Book Awards". JSTOR Daily.
- ^ Kellogg, Carolyn (February 25, 2015). "Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award goes to Angie Estes". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "2015 Literary Award Winners & Finalists | PEN Center USA". Archived from the original on January 16, 2016. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
- ^ "In Conversation with TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson: The Troubled Line". Lambda Literary. May 17, 2013.
- ^ "Lambda Literary". Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2015.