Nightboat looks for

We're looking for innovative prose writing, including inter-genre/hybrid writing, book-length essays, and manuscripts of formally experimental fiction and/or nonfiction. Prose translations, international anglophone writing, and multilingual texts welcome. No strict forms. No limits. Your manuscript might include poetry and poetic sections, but we're not considering full length poetry collections at this time. The kinds of work we are are excited to encounter might include, but isn’t limited to: Writing that illustrates and proliferates complexity in our world Writing that gestures towards or reports back from other worlds Writing that documents past / present / future periods of political uprising & experiment Writing that builds up / writing that tears down Writing that investigates & complicates existing narratives around identity Writing that torques conventional prose forms or genre Writing at the intersection of the material & the metaphysical Writing that borrows from or investigates other mediums e.g. visual art or performance Writing that cannot be easily categorized by any algorithm Honestly the weirder the better—surprise us!