Send your brilliance my way! 🫶

✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)! Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨

🚨 NEW YEAR'S SALE! All in-stock Sarabande titles are 20% off December 26 through January 2. Sale excludes bundles, merchandise + preorders. Discount applies to in-stock titles only. Shipping begins January 5. Use code NEWYEAR20 at checkout. ✨ 🪩 Shop the sale here: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles

❣ The Sarabande offices are closed December 25 - January 2. Any online orders will be processed when we reopen January 5. Thank you for being a part of the Sarabande community! May you also find rest, stay warm and feel joy always. 🫶 ❄ HAPPY HOLIDAYS & HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉

ICYMI I wrote about this intoxicating project of collaborative poetic translation and mistranslation. @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...

Good morning! Poetry is resistance. 🔥

Good morning! Poetry is resistance. 🔥

Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) @sarabandebooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...

So, the administration that wishes we’d just give up trying ALSO hates essays? How very on brand. Head to the comments to co-sign our EIC @kristenmiller.bsky.social’s ✨holiday message✨ to the NEA. We’re not going anywhere. #literarycommunity #essay

🎁 GIVING THE GIFT OF SARABANDE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON? Please make all purchases by Tuesday, December 16 for on-time holiday delivery. #shopsmall #shopindependent

Co-hosting this charity reading on Thursday! Join us! There will be nine readers, hundreds of books from various presses, wine, tote bags, and much more. 100% of the proceeds benefit immigrant & refugee rights. Please amplify if you can ❤️

⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️presents “Humanizing Medicine,” a free, virtual workshop with Katie Farris this Friday, December 12, at 12 PM EST. Link in bio to register—it’s free!

#booksky @saraband-books.bsky.social @kristenmiller.bsky.social Uncompromising. Support Indy publishing by buying and reading their books.

Excited to see @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and my very talented Spalding MFA student Colleen Alles on this list!

Our EIC, @kristenmiller.bsky.social, in today’s Kentucky Lantern 🔥🔥🔥

The sands of time had no counselor. Two collaged versions of a found aphorism. The one on the left is in my book "Classic Crimes," from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. (The one on the right is in a pile of collages somewhere.)

Having come out as nonbinary only in the past couple of years, I'm sometimes astonished at my bad timing (typed with a wink)--but, like Sarabande Books, I am also "exceedingly proud to be misaligned with this administration's vision for the arts."

When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.

Shop Sarabande Books this holiday season. To help with your gifting, take a peek at Sarabande's mini-holiday catalog of our essential reads and what we are gifting this season. View the full catalog here: simplebooklet.com/sarabandeboo... #shopsmall #shopindependent 🎁

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.

Full context here: www.sarabandebooks.org/donate

Wait till you see what else was in that letter… ☠️

We've never been so proud to be misaligned! Your support keeps us doing the thing this administration sees as a threat and a disruption. We could do this forever. Stay the course with us by making a tax deductible donation at the link in our bio! 🔥

⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️presents “The Page as a Visual Field” a free, virtual workshop with Kristina Marie Darling this Friday, November 14, at 12 PM EST. Link in bio to register—it’s free!

🎉 Happy Publication Day to HELD: ESSAYS IN BELONGING by Kathryn Nuernberger 🥳 Buy your copy today! www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

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 Øgaard Jensen, Stine An, and other incredible translators. See you at Sky Bar!

Did your chapbook submission turn into a pumpkin at midnight? We’ve got you! 🎃🫶 Take the week and send your manuscript by 11:59pm on Sunday, Nov. 9th. We can’t wait to read it!

It’s a great day to send us your ✨chapbook manuscript!✨

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. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

💝 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...

💝 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!

💝 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!

✨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!

✨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!

✨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!

🚨🚨 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!

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.🩷 zinemachine.com/the-mag

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. @sarabandebooks.bsky.social ✒️📓📚

🎉 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.

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...

🏆 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...

🏆 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...

🏆 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: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

"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 📚💙

Lauren K. Watel 💙 from BOOK OF POTIONS (Sarabande Books) Day 25 - #SealeyChallenge @sarabandebooks.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Solarium by Jordan Zandi @sarabandebooks.bsky.social ‬⁩ #poetry