✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Lindsay Lusby is a poet, editor, writing coach, letterpress printer, and graphic designer who loves to experiment with all forms of art at the intersection of text and image. Don’t miss her zine, “A Brief History of Perfect Happiness,” in our Summer ‘25 Edit!

Hi, hello, happy weekend! We’re celebrating with the first ✨zine artist reveal.✨ Kris Kalinowski (they/them) creates original analog artwork under the name artsnfartsnkris. Check out their zine, “To Be Me,” in the Summer ‘25 Edit, dropping next week!

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.

It’s still summer in our hearts! Get excited for the Zine Machine Summer ‘25 Edit, dropping one week from tomorrow, & stay tuned for artist reveals!! 😎☀️⚡️

…now witness the power of this fully operational battle station 🔥

If anyone’s here on a Friday, congrats! You get the first look at my new little project 💖

It’s my birthday! Here’s some photos Alexa Rivera took of me earlier this month at VSC—in uniform, in good light, & all-around in my element. The horrors persist, but so does my determination to keep making things with artists. 💖

🎉 Happy Publication Day to our 2024 Chapbook Prize Winner JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM by Danny Caine (@dannycaine.com) 🥳

🎉 Happy Publication Day to our 2024 Chapbook Prize Winner S_MMER CR_SH by Stine An (@stine.bsky.social) 🥳

get in, we’re making zines 🦄

get in, we’re making zines 🦄

Here's the link, babes. Giving a little means a lot: www.sarabandebooks.org/donate

NOW OPEN!!✨✨ Get your work directly to our editors this July! We’re reading poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid work, and proposals for literature in translation. Link in bio to learn more!

THE LONGEST WAY TO EAT A MELON is featured in the NYT today! Emily Mahon’s design "telegraph(s) gravitas, wit, and cool," and we couldn't put it better ourselves about Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross's debut collection! ✨✨✨

“No one who has ever had a childhood/ wants what is happening.” #poetry @mayacpopa.bsky.social @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

This Friday, ⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️ Presents “Zine of Potions,” a free, virtual workshop with Lauren K. Watel. Laurie writes, “We’ll be writing with urgent unintention, probing our interiors to discover something about ourselves. Buckle up!” Learn more and register at the link in our bio!

hahahahaha (cries)

This is a big day for couples that are one super online person and one normal

…look I won’t tell you how to celebrate the M*sk/Tr*mp breakup, but donating to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social might be the dopamine hit you need today! 🩷

The leopards They are eating each other yes YES The leopards are HUNGRY

I want to say Bluesky hasn’t been this much fun since Kissinger d*ed

…look I won’t tell you how to celebrate the M*sk/Tr*mp breakup, but donating to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social might be the dopamine hit you need today! 🩷

Get in, we’re baring our soft underbellies with a new poem in @ninthletter.bsky.social! 💜

…other people’s 6yos offer to make you a potion of ghost tears, owl blood, and a single eyelash that will make your enemies fall in love with you… right?

“CLASSIC CRIMES is a work of genius.” —Mark Wunderlich Out now, Sarah J. Sloat’s (@sjane.bsky.social) newest collection of visual poetry repurposes William Roughhead’s mid-century true-crime volume with her signature whimsy, wry humor, and cheeky, liberating poetics. Link in bio to get your copy!

Happy #PubDay to A TERRIFYING BRUSH WITH OPTIMISM, new & selected works by Lambda & Asian-American Literary Award winner Brian Leung! “Fascinating… beautiful” —Entertainment Weekly “Engaging and beguiling” —Kirkus Reviews “Stylish and unique” —Out Magazine Get your copy at the link in our bio!

Get in, we’re making zines! 🦄

To everyone who submitted their manuscripts to The Sarabande Chapbook Prize, thank you! Our editors can’t wait to read your work. 🩷 Sign up to be the first to know about new submissions opportunities, contest winners, and deadline extensions—link in bio!

Get those chapbook submissions in, y’all! 🙌

Pink on pink on pink for @alinaetc.bsky.social’s pub day! 🩷🩷🩷

Get in, we’re making zines! 🦄

Dismayed to hear from the health secretary that I’ve never written a poem, but *delighted* to hear I don’t have to pay taxes

wandering black hole, take the wheel

I wake up, I post bangers. You wake up, the splendor of your legacy radiant, evident to all who behold it, shimmering in the new dawn, present to its moment. we are not the same

CONGRATULATIONS to @karismaprice.bsky.social and all the 2025 Whiting Award winners! ✨✨✨

Chapbook series design is here and she’s gorge!! 🤩

[not a joke]

Send me your coolest smartest weirdest dreamiest niche-est chaps! 💕💕

I’m a deal maker you guys! 😎

…yes I did match my manicure to an chang joon’s GOD-DISEASE, out today from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social! I’m a superfan, first and foremost. 🖤

Get in, we’re making zines! 🦄✨✨

Apropos of *gestures wildly*... I'm prouder than ever to be publishing this important work by Lesyk Panasiuk, who is actively deployed in Ukraine. This bilingual edition of Lesyk's poetry is translated by Katie Farris & @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social. 🇺🇦

ANNOUNCING the winners of the 2024 Sarabande Chapbook Prize! We chose two winning chapbooks to celebrate the launch of our new prize. Join us in cheering for them!✨✨ S_MMER CR_SH, by Stine An @stine.bsky.social JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM, by Danny Caine @dannycaine.com

To everyone who submitted their manuscripts to Sarabande’s annual prizes, thank you! If you just couldn’t get your manuscript together in time, fear not; it’s only a short wait until THE JULY OPEN! ✨

*For real* this time! Last day to submit to the @sarabandebooks.bsky.social annual prizes ✨✨✨

…I heard you’ve been feeling stabby so I got you this

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

A wildly timely offering from ⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️ this Friday. Hope you’ll join us!!