| 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]
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] Joanne Kyger, Cole Swensen, [12] Daniel Borzutzky, Wayne Koestenbaum, [13] Etel Adnan, [14] and Fanny Howe. [15] [16] Brian Blanchfield's book A Several World 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 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]