Sarabande Books

This Friday, a free @sarabandebooks.bsky.social zine workshop for yr lunch hour. My heart in that postscript. 🖤 We will wander through John Berger, little birds, and Rosa Luxembourg to write a p.s. zine. Register below. Come do words with me.

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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 O’Connor 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. ​The Sarabande white logo is in the bottom right corner.

💝 ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re so excited to have acquired THE FRIEND SEEKERS by author Siamak Vossoughi, scheduled for publication Nov 2026!

🔗 Preorder or learn more here: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

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 Doughty’s 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. ​The Sarabande white logo is in the bottom right corner.

💝 ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re so excited to have acquired THE GRIEF ARTIST by award-winning author Traci Brimall, scheduled for publication Oct 2026!

🔗 Preorder or learn more here: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️presents “P. S. ‘I Meant To Tell You’: The Postscript Zine” 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 register—it’s free!

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 Petrosino’s 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. ​ The collection weaves personal memories with ancestral echoes, reflecting on themes of family, grief, and the search for connection across generations and geographies. ​The Sarabande white logo is in the bottom right corner.

💝 ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re so excited to have acquired PERFECT ITALIAN by longtime Sarabande author Kiki Petrosino, scheduled for publication Sept 2026!

🔗 Preorder or learn more via the link in our bio!

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Cover by Arsh Raziuddin 🔥

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 “On-sale June 2026” and underneath the book jacket is the text: “2024 Sarabande Prize in the Essay, selected by Alexander Chee”

✨COVER REVEAL!✨ 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!

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 “On-sale May 2026” and underneath the book jacket is the text: “2024 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Lauren Groff”

✨COVER REVEAL!✨ 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!

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 “On-sale April 2026” and underneath the book jacket is the text: “2024 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Hanif Abdurraqib”

✨COVER REVEAL!✨ INTIFADAS by Edward Salem, is a subtly transgressive poetry collection about uprising in its many forms—in 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!

October 1-31 THE SARABANDE CHAPBOOK PRIZE NOW OPEN $1,000 prize SARABANDEBOOKS.SUBMITTABLE.COM

🚨🚨 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!

Read — Zine Machine 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 it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷
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Ed Park is a writerly hero of mine—I’m 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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Cream background with jacket cover of ANCIENT ALGORITHMS. Lower left corner is the Sarabande's logo in white.

🎉 Happy Publication Day to ANCIENT ALGORITHMS by National Translation Award winner, Katrine Øgaard Jensen 🥳

Buy your copy today! www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

@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!

We are so thrilled. LORE is 🔥🔥🔥

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.

Cream background. Text at top reads: Praise for Lore by Roy Kesey. In the center is the quote from judge Ed Park: “One of the most resolutely interior books I've read in a while—everything filtered through a beautifully calibrated close third person—LORE 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].” Bottom right is the white Sarabande logo.

"LORE is about loneliness, endurance and the mercies of language" - Ed Park

Cream background. Black text at top reads: Winner of the 2025 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. In the center is a headshot of the author. Bottom left in script text is the author’s name: Roy Kesey. Bottom right is the white Sarabande logo.

Congratulations to Roy Kesey (@roykesey.bsky.social)
whose collection LORE was selected by Ed Park as the 2025 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction winner and is scheduled for publication in May 2027!! Learn more here: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

Cream background. Text at top reads: Praise for Swimming Upside Down by Karen Kao. In the center is the quote from judge Ed Park: “[T]his book is utterly, unstoppably alive: embodied and unsentimental, blunt and bare-faced, messy and hungry. [...] It’s a book full of recklessness, desire, and the hard-won succor of seeing others in their full humanity—and then, always, casting that rigorous gaze back at the self. I’m grateful for the pivots and edges of this book, its style and its range—but most of all, for the oxygen of its honesty.” Bottom right is the white Sarabande logo.

It's never too late to preorder a book Leslie Jamison describes as "embodied, unsentimental, blunt and bare-faced, messy and hungry."

Cream background. Text at top reads: Praise for Relief by Victoria Kornick. In the center is the quote from judge Daine Seuss: “Relief is a book of soul mates and shadows, transmutation and loss, sex and scars. I am transfixed by the genre-fluidity of this collection, locating itself at the subterranean nexus between lyric, narrative, and even rhetoric, and drawing on the aesthetic practices of photography and printmaking. Relief, with all of the inflections of that word, builds a myth without precedent, and therefore, a myth anew.” Bottom right is the white Sarabande logo.

Don't miss out on what @dseuss.bsky.social calls "a myth with precedent"

Cream background. Black text at top reads: Winner of the 2025 Sarabande Prize in the Essay. In the center is a headshot of the author. Bottom left in script text is the author’s name: Karen Koa. Bottom right is the white Sarabande logo.

🏆 Congratulations to the late Karen Koa (1959-2025) whose collection SWIMMING UPSIDE DOWN was selected by Leslie Jamison as the 2025 Sarabande Prize in the Essay winner and is scheduled for publication in June 2027!! Learn more here: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

Cream background. Black text at top reads: Winner of the 2025 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. In the center is a headshot of the author. Bottom left in script text is the author’s name: Victoria Kornick. Bottom right is the white Sarabande logo.

🏆 Congratulations to Victoria Kornick whose collection RELIEF was selected by Diane Seuss (@dseuss.bsky.social
) as the 2025 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry winner and is scheduled for publication in April 2027!! Learn more here: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

Creme background. Black text at top reads: Winner of the 2025 Sarabande Spring Chapbook Prize. In the center is a headshot of the author. Bottom left in script text is the author’s name: Triin Paja. Bottom right is the white Sarabande logo.

🏆 2025 SPRING CHAPBOOK PRIZE: Congratulations to Triin Paja whose poetry collection RIVERS, RIVERS, RIVERS won the 2025 Sarabande Spring Chapbook Prize and is scheduled for publication in August 2026!! Learn more here:
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collage-erasure-poem: text blacked out with black crayon, lifted words circled with pen, female figure in the lower right is composed of two incongruous parts (black & white photo and an illustration from a tailoring manual, possibly). She leans over what seems a toy airplane and something undefined in her hands. the words of the poem read: my little purse is a spiritual home to mystery an explosion to go

Cover of Classic Crimes: a collage of collage pieces from individual poems placed on green ground

"an explosion to go"
The poem Delirious in Classic Crimes by @sjane.bsky.social, @sarabandebooks.bsky.social, 2025
A whole book of delightful explosions to go, in fact!
Sarah J. Sloat's work has been and continues to be such an inspiration. 🙏💙!

#vispo #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

I AWOKE ON THE EDGE I awoke on the edge of a field, a snow-covered meadow plated with sunlight, and the sky was bright white and unnatural, and the silence was white, too, a ravenous silence, and the birds had all gone away, and the squirrels were burrowed in the deep, and behind me the trees creaked in their bones, and the snow clung to their limbs, to their limbs down to the needles, the snow was layers thick and smooth, flawless across its surface like something spread by a machine, and sunlight skimmed over the snow as if it were an impenetrable metal, and I stepped onto the field holding my breath because I didn't know how firm the snow was, or how deep, but it wasn't the snow that gave with my every step, it was the silence, how I sank into it up to my knees, the silence crackling around my feet, pulling me down with a sharp gravity, and I slogged through the silence, my breath shrouding my face, and the silence sliced through my lips, through my throat and into my lungs, the silence swallowed up my chest, and how close it seemed, the other side, so I kept going, kept stepping across the snow-covered meadow, across the sunlight, across the glittering silence, which lit me up, me, who'd always bristled in silence, darkly.

Lauren K. Watel 💙

from BOOK OF POTIONS (Sarabande Books)

Day 25 - #SealeyChallenge

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My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu Sarabande Books. 2025. 118 pages.

Grateful beyond words to Candice Daquin for reviewing my heresies for @worldlittoday.bsky.social, and to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for publishing the book itself and to @kristenmiller.bsky.social for everything that holds it together. 🖤

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The cover of An Chang Joon's collection of short stories: a white hand with black fingernails in the center, bisected by red angles

This is a super-cool collection of short stories. GOD-DISEASE by An Chang Joon. Published by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

Recommend.