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Sarabande Books
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Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY.

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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...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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! 🔥
"Your project to publish poetry unfortunately does not align with our priorities." —NEA Notice of Termination Sarabande is exceedingly proud to be misaligned with this administration's vision for the arts. We refuse to become demoralized, soft-pedal our values, or sell out our authors for federal funding. We know you share our values and determination. Help us bridge the gap left by the NEA with a recurring monthly donation or gift of any size.
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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⚡️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!
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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🎉 Happy Publication Day to HELD: ESSAYS IN BELONGING by Kathryn Nuernberger 🥳

Buy your copy today! www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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 Øgaard Jensen, Stine An, and other incredible translators. See you at Sky Bar!
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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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!
November 9th THE SARABANDE CHAPBOOK PRIZE Extended $1,000 prize SARABANDEBOOKS.SUBMITTABLE.COM
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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💝 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 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.
October 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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💝 ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re so excited to have acquired THE GRIEF ARTIST by award-winning author Traci Brimall, scheduled for publication Oct 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 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.
October 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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⚡️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!
October 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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💝 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!
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.
October 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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✨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 June 2026” and underneath the book jacket is the text: “2024 Sarabande Prize in the Essay, selected by Alexander Chee”
October 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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✨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 May 2026” and underneath the book jacket is the text: “2024 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Lauren Groff”
October 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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✨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!
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”
October 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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🚨🚨 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!
October 1-31 THE SARABANDE CHAPBOOK PRIZE NOW OPEN $1,000 prize SARABANDEBOOKS.SUBMITTABLE.COM
October 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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🎉 Happy Publication Day to ANCIENT ALGORITHMS by National Translation Award winner, Katrine Øgaard Jensen 🥳

Buy your copy today! www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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"LORE is about loneliness, endurance and the mercies of language" - Ed Park
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.
September 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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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. 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.
September 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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 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.
September 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Don't miss out on what @dseuss.bsky.social calls "a myth with precedent"
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.
September 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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🏆 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 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.
September 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🏆 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...
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.
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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🏆 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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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.
September 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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✨COVER REVEAL!✨ Our final book on the Fall list is essay collection HOW TO DISAPPEAR AND WHY by Kyle Minor, available February 2026, that covers a wide scope of cultural, historical, spiritual, and philosophical figures and ideas, centered on the concept of disappearance.

🔗 Preorder in bio!
Cream background. A white Sarabande Books logo is located in the lower right corner. An image of the book jacket is center left. Above the jacket cover it reads, “Essays,” and below it reads, “Available February 2026.” To the right of the jacket is the quote: ““This book will provoke you and challenge you: it will not save you, but it will make you want to save yourself.” —Matt Bell, author of APPLESEED
September 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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✨COVER REVEAL!✨ Poetry in translation collection LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET GO TO WAR by acclaimed Ukrainian writer Lesyk Panasiuk, translated by National Book Award finalist poet Ilya Kaminsky (@ilyakaminsky.bsky.social) and Katie Ferris is available January 2026.

🔗 Preorder link in bio!
Dark navy blue background background. A white Sarabande Books logo is located in the lower right corner. An image of the book jacket is center left. Above the jacket cover it reads, “Poetry,” and below it reads, “Available January 2026.” To the right of the jacket is the quote: “Panasiuk uses language as a living character [...] The poems are full of visceral imagery, evoking the emotional experience of war…” —The Library Journal, starred review
September 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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✨COVER REVEAL!✨ Next up on our Fall/Winter list is HELD: ESSAYS IN BELONGING by Kathryn Nuernberger (@katnuernberger.bsky.social), available November 2025 just in time for the holidays!

🔗 Preorder link in bio!
Pale yellow background. A white Sarabande Books logo is located in the lower right corner. An image of the book jacket is center left. Above the jacket cover it reads, “Essays,” and below it reads, “Available November 2025.” To the right of the jacket is the quote: “Held is a meditation on grief and the tendrils of time, an exploration of how we are connected to all that has been and will be.” – Kao Kalia Yang, author of WHERE RIVERS PART
September 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM