From Jennifer Grotz's book, Still Falling. Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social. #poem #books #writing

Intriguing autumn harvest of ARCs to consider for VerseCurious. Thanks to @akashicbooks.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social and @tinhouse.bsky.social/ @zandoprojects.bsky.social for sending!

"What I Might Sing," a poem from my new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (pub 10/7), is in the @newyorker.com. Preorder link for a signed copy book is in my pinned post. @graywolfpress.bsky.social

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 ✨ graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/GraywolfLite...

🆕 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). graywolflab.org/2025/09/12/f...

📢 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 ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

Critics are already raving about STEVE, the film adapted from Max Porter’s beloved novel SHY and starring the brilliant Cillian Murphy. In select theaters tomorrow (9/19) and on Netflix October 3, which means there’s still time to read the book before streaming the movie! 🎬 📚

Friends! Tonight’s event with @laurenfsharma and jacindatownsendthewriter is postponed due to a power outage!!! If it ain’t one thing it’s another 🤦🏽‍♀️. But! We will be rescheuling so stay tuned for a new date and we hope to see you soon! 💙

Just lovely to see that Ben Ratliff's thoughtful, generous, sui generis RUN THE SONG: Writing About Running About Listening made the National Book Awards Long List for Nonfiction. Go Ben! @graywolfpress.bsky.social #nationalbookaward #booksky www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

I Interviewed Author and Editor Mark Doten about reddit, Johnny Gosh, and his new book of short stories; Whites. @graywolfpress.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dreamsof...

Writing advice from author & editor Mark Doten from my interview with him about his new book WHITES (out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social Interview here: open.substack.com/pub/dreamsof...

M Lin's THE MEMORY MUSEUM—an expansive debut story collection exploring the complex lives of women in China and the Chinese diaspora—is out April 21, 2026.⁠ #SneakPeek Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

🎉 ALTA is delighted to announce the 2025 shortlists for the following prizes: 🏆ALTA First Translation Prize 🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award 🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize 🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award Congrats to all on these lists! buff.ly/tVFTq3h

ARCs!! Much gratitude to the team at @graywolfpress.bsky.social 🌊🪼🦑🐙💙 www.graywolfpress.org/books/daught...

Daniel Moysaenko's OVERTAKELESSNESS—winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Alberto Ríos—is out April 7, 2026.⁠ @poetsorg.bsky.social Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/over...

Mark your calendars! Joshua Wheeler is taking his debut novel THE HIGH HEAVEN on tour 🌙 Details: www.graywolfpress.org/events?field...

Happy pub. day to Roque Raquel Salas Rivera's ALGARABÍA and the pbk edition of Edwidge Danticat's WE'RE ALONE! Pick up copies from your local indie today 📚

Quote of the Day, from THE HIGH HEAVEN by Joshua Wheeler, forthcoming from @graywolfpress.bsky.social.

Today’s Featured Poem: “We Came Here to Get Away from You” by @donikakelly.bsky.social from The Natural Order of Things published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/we-came...

Read a review of FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, out with @graywolfpress.bsky.social in November (tr. Natasha Wimmer) in @theguardian.com! "A hugely rewarding, polyphonic narrative of migration from Cuba." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Irene Solà’s I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARD DARKNESS (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) is a novel “forged from the deepest and truest stories about the perversity of the body.” Translated by Mara Faye Lethem & featured on our #WITMonth reading list: www.graywolfpress.org/books/i-gave...

Harryette Mullen's "Regaining Unconsciousness" (out with @graywolfpress.bsky.social) does so much, but maybe my favorite thing about the collection is how it resists the "economic argument" in favor of robust engagement. Much thanks to Elizabeth Metzger and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social!

my new story is up at Graywolf Labs! "If Your Grave Is Unmarked, Assume Positive Intent" is about trans motherhood, desperation, and playing PUBG Mobile in a gas station parking lot. Please read and share! graywolflab.org/2025/08/22/i...

#SneakPeek 👀 Maile Chapman's THE SPOIL—her first novel in fifteen years—is out March 17, 2026. Preorder this mesmerizing novel about the perplexities of memory, Las Vegas real estate, DIY projects, and demons: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Today’s Poem-a-Day @poetsorg.bsky.social is by the great @dapowell.bsky.social, who is, let’s be honest, a national treasure @graywolfpress.bsky.social ❤️ 🐅

Happy pub. day to Mark Doten's story collection WHITES! Pick up a copy today from your local indie, and catch Mark on tour in DC, Minneapolis, and Brooklyn. www.graywolfpress.org/books/whites

I'm nearly finished "The art of subtext" by Charles Baxter, published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social It is unbelievably brilliant. I can't remember a better nonfiction book, let alone book on writing craft. I don't want it to end (and yet it is so short)

📢 Mark your calendars! 📢 Jacinda Townsend is taking her novel TRIGGER WARNING on tour. Details: www.graywolfpress.org/events?field... ⁠

Read TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuang-zi, translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King, this #WITMonth! This @graywolfpress.bsky.social novel is a “story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power.” www.graywolfpress.org/books/taiwan...

#SneakPeek 👀 @carolinaebeid.bsky.social's HIDE—a reinvention of visual poetry and personal history charting exile’s impact on memory, identity, and futurity—is out March 3, 2026.⁠ Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/hide...

"Charlottesville: An American Story is not exactly a hopeful story, but it is one that refuses to let hate win. And that’s the version of this country I still want to believe in." @sarabethwest.bsky.social reviews CHARLOTTESVILLE by Deborah Baker. @graywolfpress.bsky.social

"A prominent vein of esoteric knowledge winds through the poems in 'The Rose,' evoking classical mythology, medieval theology, modern astrology, and—maybe—witchcraft." A review of Ariana Reines's new work of poetry (@graywolfpress.bsky.social): lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/poetry-19/

Join us in congratulating Shubha Sunder! 🎉🎉🎉 fallforthebook.org/2025navfinal...

Graywolf's literary salon is on September 25th, and we'd like to take a moment to thank our incredible sponsors 👏 Join them in supporting artistic freedom and visionary literature by attending the salon next month. Get your tix before they're gone! graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/GraywolfLite...

Latest @thestranger.com with Chloe Caldwell about TRYING out of @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I did ask about the mention of the beauty brand Ilia in the book, yes. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

“Caldwell has achieved what many authors dedicate careers to accomplish: her wise and at times audacious snapshots fill holes in the marrow of our bones.” Excerpt from review of Chloe Caldwell’s Trying, new from @graywolfpress.bsky.social Full review below: buff.ly/3DiIGGW #writingcommunity

Well, the Winter 2026 catalogue is up @graywolfpress.bsky.social. My little book of essays, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, is in that catalogue -- in such company! -- and I couldn't be more delighted. 🐌🦑🐙🌊🪸💙 www.graywolfpress.org/winter-2026-...

"Caldwell shows readers how to endure catastrophe with aplomb; there can be no better recommendation for literature." — @kristenmillares.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com TRYING is out today! 🎉🎉 www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

New Marie Mutsuki Mockett on the way!

📢 Mark your calendars! Catch Mark Doten on tour for WHITES, their corrosive story collection about the insatiable logic of whiteness (out 8/19). And stay tuned for additional events to be announced!⁠ www.graywolfpress.org/events?field...

🆕 on Graywolf Lab: An essay with companion "contour drawings" by writer and artist Lena Moses-Schmitt ⛸️⁠ graywolflab.org/2025/08/01/c...

Surprise! We're thrilled to be publishing Maggie Nelson's THE SLICKS: ON SYLVIA PLATH AND TAYLOR SWIFT on 11/25. Originally published by Dopamine Books last year (and continuously selling out their limited edition), we're excited to get THE SLICKS back on the shelves 💜

These new environmental poetry collections from @stelliform.press @univnebpress.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social and others include some of our favorite books of the year so far. therevelator.org/environmenta...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON, a new novel by @criveragarza.bsky.social (trans. by Christina MacSweeney) is out Feb. 3rd 👀 Preorder today! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

📢 We're giving away 20 copies of ALGARABÍA with @thestorygraph.com! Enter to win: app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/b4...

🚨 New on Lab: Games 🚨 An essay by Joseph Earl Thomas on playing the survival game Palworld with his daughter 🎮️⁠ ⁠ 🖇️ And don't forget, 1️⃣ more week to submit your own work in response to the Games issue! graywolflab.org/2025/07/18/p...

🚨 New on Lab: Games 🚨 An essay by Ed Park on Buffalo’s infamous blizzard of ’77 and the board game that resulted ❄️🎲⁠ ⁠ Don't forget that we're open for submissions to the Games issue until July 28! graywolflab.org/2025/07/11/t...

Best reread of the year! …and I’ve got Diamond Stuff on order. Life is good. @graywolfpress.bsky.social @waidner.bsky.social

Lars Horn’s essays explore “the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating back injury.” Read VOICE OF THE FISH (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) this #DisabilityPrideMonth: www.graywolfpress.org/books/voice-...

The Big 5 publishers get a lot of attention...let's give small ones some well-deserved airtime. #20Indiebookchallenge Choose 20 small-press books you've either read or want to read, in no particular order. Just covers and the publisher's name. Publisher: @graywolfpress.bsky.social 9/20 #litfic