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BOA Editions Receives 2024 Amazon Literary Partnership Poetry Fund Grant
BOA Editions, Ltd. is thrilled to announce that it has been selected as a recipient of the 2024 Amazon Literary Partnership Poetry Fund grant. This prestigious grant will support BOA Editions’ ongoing efforts to foster readership and appreciation of contemporary literature through our Blessing the Boats Selections initiative.
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Danielle Cadena Deulen Wins 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Outstanding Bisexual Poetry
BOA Editions is thrilled to announce that Danielle Cadena Deulen's poetry collection, Desire Museum, has won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award (Lammy) for Outstanding Bisexual Poetry. This prestigious accolade was awarded during the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards ceremony held on June 11, 2024, at Sony Hall.
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Keetje Kuipers Awarded Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for Forthcoming Collection - Press Release
BOA Editions is excited to announce that Keetje Kuipers has been awarded the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for her collection Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, which is forthcoming from BOA in Spring 2025. This prestigious award underscores Kuipers' exceptional contribution to contemporary poetry.
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BOA Editions Announces Call for Submissions for Blessing the Boats Selections - Press Release
BOA Editions, Ltd. is now accepting submissions for Blessing the Boats Selections, spotlighting poetry collections by women of color. The selected poet will receive book publication in Fall 2026 and a $5,000 honorarium.
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BOA Editions Intern Reviews: Exile in Guyville by Amy Lee Lillard
Amy Lee Lillard’s Exile in Guyville, is the perfect read for those who love speculative and dystopian fiction. Lillard achieves a type of storytelling that is simultaneously futuristic and present, that reimagines but holds true to the experiences of women today. To me, her collection of short stories stand as testaments to the deep longing for more which lives in so many women—a longing to be seen, heard, and to achieve more than what is expected or available. In each of their worlds, the characters reach out for more than what they are given, whether for themselves or those they...
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