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Founded in 1974, Graywolf Press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.


Happy pub. day to Maggie Nelson's THE SLICKS, a keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath.

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November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🆕 on Lab Games: Rae Delane's essay "You Start with Three Languages," which explores multilingual and multicultural identity and the invisible games we learn to play.

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November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It's Give to the Max Day! Keep literature alive by making a gift to Graywolf today. The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag. #GTMD25

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November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
3️⃣ days until #GTMD25! The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag 🐺📚 Support Graywolf with a gift:

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November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
🆕 on Lab Games: Katy Whitehead's essay "Escaping the Family," about escape rooms, family vacations, and the "infinite puzzles" of marriage and parenthood. 🖇️ Read it here:

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November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#SneakPeek 👀 chaun webster's WITHOUT TERMINUS—a dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award–winning author—is out June 2, 2026. Preorder:

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November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.

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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Huge congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel FLESH has won the 2025 Booker Prize! 🎉🎉 Did you know Graywolf published Szalay's previous novels ALL THAT MAN IS (a Booker finalist), LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST, and SPRING? Stock up:

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November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Happy pub. day to Karina Pacheco Medrano's THE YEAR OF THE WIND (trans. Mara Faye Lethem), Carlos Manuel Álvarez's FALSE WAR (trans. Natasha Wimmer), and Brandon Kilbourne's NATURAL HISTORY! 🎉🎉🎉
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
See Karina Pacheco Medrano on tour this November for THE YEAR OF THE WIND!

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October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
1️⃣ week from today! Bay area wolves, don't miss this extra-special event with poet Mai Der Vang and artist Tiffany Chung to celebrate the launch of their collaborative broadside with Arion Press. Get your tickets here:

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October 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🆕 on Lab Games: @adrie-rose.bsky.social's "Dear," selected from the open submission call. Read the full poem here:

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October 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#SneakPeek 👀 Aea Varfis-van Warmelo's ATTENTION-SEEKING BEHAVIOR—a confession from a liar that exposes the interrelation of language, control, performance, intimacy, and love—is out May 19, 2026.⁠ @aeavvw.bsky.social

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October 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We are thrilled to announce that Tracy K. Smith is returning to Graywolf with THE FOREST, which we expect to publish in March 2027.

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October 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Happy pub. day to @maxdelsohn.bsky.social's
CRAWL, a darkly comic, introspective debut story collection that looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s Seattle. Pick up a copy from your local indie bookstore today, and catch Max on tour this fall! 🎉🎉⁠

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October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
📢 Special event announcement! 📢 On Nov. 6th, join @maidervang.bsky.social & Tiffany Chung for a celebration of their collaborative, limited-edition Arion Press broadside. Get tickets:

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October 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We are honored to announce that THIS POOR BOOK—celebrated poet Fanny Howe’s final book, a kaleidoscopic recasting of her twenty-first-century poems—will be out May 5, 2026. Preorder:

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October 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
See Brandon Kilbourne on tour for NATURAL HISTORY, winner of the Cave Canem Prize!

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October 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Happy pub. day to Joshua Wheeler's THE HIGH HEAVEN and Donika Kelly's THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS! 🎉🎉
October 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Catch @donikakelly.bsky.social on tour this fall for THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS! Details:

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October 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#SneakPeek 👀 Karen Tei Yamashita's QUESTIONS 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II—is out April 28, 2026. Preorder:

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October 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
📢 Don't miss @maxdelsohn.bsky.social on tour this fall! Details:

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October 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There's still time to get tickets to this year's literary salon on Thursday! Gather with fellow book lovers and enjoy a special program with authors Chloé Caldwell, Joshua Wheeler, and chaun webster ✨

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September 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🆕 on Lab Games: nine writing exercises from Lucy Ives's forthcoming book "three six five: prompts, acts, divinations," a collection of a year’s worth of these prompts (out from Siglio Press in March 2026, available for preorder now).

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September 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📢 Chicago wolves, join us! 📢 This special fundraising party will feature a social hour, dinner, drinks, and literary program w/ Dobby Gibson & Carmen Giménez. All proceeds benefit the visionary work of Graywolf Press. Tix ⬇️

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September 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM