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Sarabande Books Director & EIC Poet, translator, chaos virgo linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
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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!!

if not hell, why hell-shaped

🚨Good news alert!!🚨 Cc: @erindorney.bsky.social

Inside me are two wolves. One is anxiety. The other is more anxiety.

Mood

sure. the entire timeline has reposted a dumb thing somebody said. the timeline is basically all just that now, sure, I grant you. but wait til it’s me reposting. that’ll learn em

Poetry Advice from Clippy:

Let our EIC Influence™️ you 💕

…my toxic trait is larping as an influencer in order to radicalize you for indie publishing 🥂💕

It appears Leonard Peltier is free!!!

you have to train to get to this level of social media perfection

today is a good day to go unbridled into yourself and write the thing you have been hesitating to write, to invent a new way of getting lost, to discover a different way back

Could the arc of the moral universe be a little shorter please

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Hometown heroes:

Sometimes you can just tell there are *really good* people at the helm:

two top-shelf faves:

Welcome! @interstellarflight.bsky.social & @jacklegpress.bsky.social! May all your super fans find you ✨✨

Absolutely boost your gorgeous selves on here lit mags, publishers, & all the tireless heroes behind yr accounts!!

Meta blackouts, TikTok fake outs… just gonna resurrect this lil thread from awhile ago. Pls boost your faves of indie publishing! It’s hard to be their social media mgrs these days! 💕

One month left to submit!

We are honored to announce that the National Endowment for the Arts has once again extended its generous support to Sarabande and approved a grant in the amount of $25,000. Access the complete list of NEA grant recipients at the link in our bio. Congratulations to all, and many thanks to the NEA!

My 2024 wrapped: it was the best year ever because the feral cat I’ve been feeding for 10 years let me pet her for the first time 💜

✨Sarabande’s Spring & Summer 2025 titles are now available for pre-order!✨ Visit the link in our bio to learn more about each title and to place your pre-order!

DID YOU KNOW Sarabande and Amaz*n are birthday twins?? 👀While we were celebrating 30 years of Sarabande in 2024, another book-world powerhouse hit the 30-year milestone, too. Maybe you've heard of them. Is Amaz*n our evil twin? Who's to say?

If, like me, you want independent publishers like Sarabande defining the next thirty years of literature, I invite you to give generously in support of our mission (hint: it's not to be the first publisher on Mars). To the future, friends! 🥂 www.sarabandebooks.org/donate

What I do know is which of the two of us has spent every moment of the last thirty years building a better future for authors. I know which of us understands that a diverse, thriving field of independent curators-not monopolization-is the best way to cultivate literature. ✨✨

DID YOU KNOW Sarabande and Amaz*n are birthday twins?? 👀While we were celebrating 30 years of Sarabande in 2024, another book-world powerhouse hit the 30-year milestone, too. Maybe you've heard of them. Is Amaz*n our evil twin? Who's to say?

It’s already been one year of coziness ✨✨✨