Sarabande is such a great indie press & means a lot to me, both for their many poetry titles & also bc EIC @kristenmiller.bsky.social is a college acquaintance. Her leadership is admirable esp as losing NEA funds will hurt. Join me to help them cover the funding gap & continue their vital work.
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"Your project
to publish poetry
unfortunately does not align with our priorities."
βNEA Notice of Termination
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β‘οΈZINE LUNCH!β‘οΈpresents βThe Page as a Visual Fieldβ a free, virtual workshop with Kristina Marie Darling this Friday, November 14, at 12 PM EST.
Link in bio to registerβitβs free!
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π Happy Publication Day to HELD: ESSAYS IN BELONGING by Kathryn Nuernberger π₯³
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Join us at "Revisions and Subversions," a reading of poetry in translation! This reading is collaboratively sponsored by Sarabande Books, Third Coast Translators Collective, and The Louisville Review and features Katrine Γgaard Jensen, Stine An, and other incredible translators. See you at Sky Bar!
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November 9th
THE SARABANDE CHAPBOOK PRIZE
Extended
$1,000 prize
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Did your chapbook submission turn into a pumpkin at midnight? Weβve got you! ππ«Ά Take the week and send your manuscript by 11:59pm on Sunday, Nov. 9th. We canβt wait to read it!
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Itβs a great day to send us your β¨chapbook manuscript!β¨
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Blue ombre background. White text at top reads: New Acquisition, The Friend Seekers by Siamak Vossoughi. Underneath the text is a headshot of the author. To the right of the photo is the following book description: Winner of the Flannery OβConnor Award for Short Fiction, Siamak Vossoughi, in his new book The Friend Seekers, insists on tenderness and careful attunement to the inner worlds of others. An ethos rendered with disarming simplicity, it is nothing less than a radically countercultural call to be a different kind of neighbor, citizen, and friend. βThe Sarabande white logo is in the bottom right corner.
π ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Weβre so excited to have acquired THE FRIEND SEEKERS by author Siamak Vossoughi, scheduled for publication Nov 2026!
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Blue ombre background. White text at top reads: New Acquisition, The Grief Artist by Traci Brimhall. Underneath the text is a headshot of the author. To the right of the photo is the following book description: For fans of SIX FEET UNDER and Caitlin Doughtyβs FROM HERE TO ETERNITY comes a meditation on grief, rituals and art by award-winning author Traci Brimhall. THE GRIEF ARTIST is a collection of essays that reflects on death rituals and the absence thereof in contemporary American culture. Through cultural analysis, historical research and personal story, Brimhall contemplates how we grieve and endure. βThe Sarabande white logo is in the bottom right corner.
π ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Weβre so excited to have acquired THE GRIEF ARTIST by award-winning author Traci Brimall, scheduled for publication Oct 2026!
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β‘οΈZINE LUNCH!β‘οΈpresents βP. S. βI Meant To Tell Youβ: The Postscript Zineβ a free, virtual workshop with @alinaetc.bsky.social this Friday, October 10, at 12 PM EST, sponsored by Zine Machine and streaming live from Set & Setting Bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky!
Link in bio to registerβitβs free!
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Blue ombre background. White text at top reads: New Acquisition, Perfect Italian by Kiki Petrosino. Underneath the text is a headshot of the author. To the right of the photo is the following book description: Through vivid imagery and spare, precise verse, Kiki Petrosinoβs PERFECT ITALIAN examines the complexities of cultural inheritance, the nuances of language, and the emotional weight of diasporic identity as a Black and Italian American. β The collection weaves personal memories with ancestral echoes, reflecting on themes of family, grief, and the search for connection across generations and geographies. βThe Sarabande white logo is in the bottom right corner.
π ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Weβre so excited to have acquired PERFECT ITALIAN by longtime Sarabande author Kiki Petrosino, scheduled for publication Sept 2026!
π Preorder or learn more via the link in our bio!
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Cover by Emily Mahon π₯
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Cover by Sarah Flood-Baumann π₯
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Cover by Arsh Raziuddin π₯
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Cream background. A white Sarabande Books logo is located in the lower right corner. An image of the book jacket to the left. To the right is the text βOn-sale June 2026β and underneath the book jacket is the text: β2024 Sarabande Prize in the Essay, selected by Alexander Cheeβ
β¨COVER REVEAL!β¨ LUCKY CREATURES by Joseph Trinidad is a humorous and endearing debut about migration, queerness and the transnational experience. Selected by Alexander Chee (@alexanderchee.bsky.social) to win the 2024 Sarabande Prize in the Essay Available June 2026. Preorder in bio!
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Cream background. A white Sarabande Books logo is located in the lower right corner. An image of the book jacket to the left. To the right is the text βOn-sale May 2026β and underneath the book jacket is the text: β2024 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Lauren Groffβ
β¨COVER REVEAL!β¨ LAKE EFFECT by Hillary Behrman, is a debut short story collection about the wild and hidden places in nature and the heart. Selected by Lauren Groff (@legroff.bsky.social) to win the 2024 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Available May 2026. Preorder in bio!
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Cream background. A white Sarabande Books logo is located in the lower right corner. An image of the book jacket to the left. To the right is the text βOn-sale April 2026β and underneath the book jacket is the text: β2024 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Hanif Abdurraqibβ
β¨COVER REVEAL!β¨ INTIFADAS by Edward Salem, is a subtly transgressive poetry collection about uprising in its many formsβin art, politics, and our most personal relationships. Selected by Hanif Abdurraqib to win the 2024 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. Available April 2026. Preorder in bio!
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October 1-31
THE SARABANDE CHAPBOOK PRIZE NOW OPEN
$1,000 prize
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π¨π¨ By extremely popular
demand, The Sarabande Chapbook Prize is back! During the month of October, we're reading your poetry and hybrid chapbook submissions. One winner selected by the editors will be awarded publication, $1000, and a standard royalty contract.
Details and past winners in bio!
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Our launch issue is LIVE!! Read zines made by real (paid!) human artists in Zine Machine's Summer '25 Edit, out now.
All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what itβs brought meβan insistence that thereβs so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That itβs never far away.π©·
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Ed Park is a writerly hero of mineβIβm honored that he picked Lore, flattered by his kind words and comps, and fucking tickled that he name-checked the POV.
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π Happy Publication Day to ANCIENT ALGORITHMS by National Translation Award winner, Katrine Γgaard Jensen π₯³
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@roykesey.bsky.social is one of my all-time favorite story writers, and I can't wait to read LORE when it comes out next year. Congratulations, Roy!
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We are so thrilled. LORE is π₯π₯π₯
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Absolutely delighted to be working with @sarabandebooks.bsky.social on this book. Big love to @kristenmiller.bsky.social and everyone else on the Sarabande team, and to Ed Park for picking Lore.
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![Cream background. Text at top reads: Praise for Lore by Roy Kesey. In the center is the quote from judge Ed Park: βOne of the most resolutely interior books I've read in a whileβeverything filtered through a beautifully calibrated close third personβLORE is about loneliness, endurance, and the mercies of language. It reads like Cormac McCarthy had written Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine [by Stanley Crawford].β Bottom right is the white Sarabande logo.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i7liz7xfemog6bcmjr6bpzov/bafkreibejff4poc5tuovs62wvwpykcb23y2dzwcvbqlohqhrwe22jnbsny@jpeg)
Cream background. Text at top reads: Praise for Lore by Roy Kesey. In the center is the quote from judge Ed Park: βOne of the most resolutely interior books I've read in a whileβeverything filtered through a beautifully calibrated close third personβLORE is about loneliness, endurance, and the mercies of language. It reads like Cormac McCarthy had written Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine [by Stanley Crawford].β Bottom right is the white Sarabande logo.
"LORE is about loneliness, endurance and the mercies of language" - Ed Park
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