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 Rochester, NY— BOA Editions, Ltd. will publish A Tinderbox in Three Acts by Cynthia Dewi Oka as the next Blessing the Boats Selections title. Oka will receive a $5,000 honorarium, and her manuscript will be published in September 2022 as part of the American Poets Continuum Series. A Tinderbox in Three Acts is the second selection by Blessing the Boats Selections Editor-at-Large Aracelis Girmay. Girmay said of the collection: “I cannot say enough how critical this work is for its history, specificity, and devotion. At its center churn insurmountable, incomprehensible brutalities. These are the facts. But Oka and her fellow organizers, researchers, artists,...

  BOA is thrilled to be back at AWP this year at Booth 1127! Stop by to see us, get an early (and signed) copy of one of our forthcoming spring books and recent backlist, and grab a sticker! As we prepare, we wanted to share our signing schedule and all of our authors' panels here. AWP will be held from March 23–26, 2022 in Philadelphia, PA in the Pennsylvania Convention Center. More details can be found on AWP's website. Author Signings at the BOA Booth Erika Meitner, Useful JunkThursday, March 24, 2022, 10:00 am to 10:45 am  Justin Jannise, How to be Better by Being...

Rochester, N.Y. — The Philosophical Society of Texas announced Monday, February 7, 2022 that Matt Morton’s Improvisation Without Accompaniment (BOA Editions, 2020) is the winner for the annual Philosophical Society of Texas Book Prize in Poetry. The prize, consisting of a $2,500 purse, honors a book of poetry that must either be about Texas or have been written by an author who has resided in or who was born within the boundaries of the Republic of Texas as claimed in 1836. Selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2018 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Matt Morton’s debut poetry collection...

  Rochester, N.Y. — BOA Editions, Ltd. has been approved for a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the publication and promotion of eight new books of contemporary poetry. BOA’s project is among 1,248 projects across America totaling $28,840,000 that were selected to receive this first round of fiscal year 2022 funding in the Grants for Arts Projects category. “The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts projects like this one from BOA that help support the community’s creative economy,” said NEA Acting Chair Ann Eilers. “BOA Editions, Ltd. in Rochester, NY is among the...

As we approach 2022, it’s easy to want to leave 2021 behind. While this past year definitely had its challenges, our team at BOA is proud to step back and recognize all of the amazing things accomplished in 2021, including celebrating our 45th anniversary of publishing vital new voices in poetry and short fiction! In the last year, BOA published eleven incredible titles, including: Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey by Craig Morgan Teicher  I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World by Kendra DeColo  How to be Better by Being Worse by Justin Jannise  The Naomi Letters...