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]

Nightboat Books
Founded2004
FoundersKazim Ali and Jennifer Chapis
SuccessorStephen Motika
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationBrooklyn, New York
DistributionConsortium Book Sales and Distribution
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.nightboat.org

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]

References
  1. http://www.nightboat.org/catalog
  2. "Kazim Ali". 30 May 2020.
  3. "About Nightboat Books".
  4. "Stephen Motika".
  5. http://www.nightboat.org/content/about-prize
  6. http://www.cbsd.com>
  7. https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/Fall_2014_Grant_List_by_State_FINAL.pdf
  8. "NYSCA : New York State Council on the Arts".
  9. https://www.clmp.org/faceout/
  10. http://nightboat.org/order
  11. "Life in a Box is a Pretty Life – Constant Critic".
  12. "Fiction Book Review: Landscapes on a Train by Cole Swensen. Nightboat (UPNE, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-937658-41-0".
  13. "Review: Wayne Koestenbaum's 'Pink Trance Notebooks'".
  14. "NY Arts Magazine - Home".
  15. "Bookslut | the Lives of a Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken by Fanny Howe".
  16. "Fanny Howe by Kim Jensen - BOMB Magazine".
  17. "James Laughlin Award | Academy of American Poets".
  18. http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014_poetry_longlist_pr.pdf
  19. "National Book Award longlists announced".
  20. "Small-Press Poets Recognized by the National Book Awards". 3 October 2014.
  21. "Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award goes to Angie Estes". 25 February 2015.
  22. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2015-12-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  23. "In Conversation with TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson: The Troubled Line | Lambda Literary".
  24. http://www.lambdaliterary.org/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/
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