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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 1d

See Brandon Kilbourne on tour for NATURAL HISTORY, winner of the Cave Canem Prize!

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Brandon Kilbourne on tour for Natural History:

11/17 @ 3:30 PM | Lawrence, KS
University of Kansas
w/ Carlton Shield Chief Gover

11/18 @ 7 PM | Lawrence, KS
University of Kansas
Location TBA

11/20 @ 6:30 PM | Houston, TX
Brazos Bookstore
w/ Julia Guez

11/29 @ 7 PM | Berlin, Germany
Cave Canem Prize Reading
Haus für Poesie

Brandon Kilbourne on tour for Natural History:

11/12 @ 7 PM | St. Paul, MN
Bell Museum
w/ Sushma Reddy

11/14 @ 4 PM | Chicago, IL
57th Street Bookstore
w/ Eric Elshtain
11/6 @ 7 PM | New York, NY
Cave Canem Prize Reading
The New School
w/ Natasha Trethewey

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub. day to Joshua Wheeler's THE HIGH HEAVEN and Donika Kelly's THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS! 🎉🎉

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 1d

"It should be possible to both write good and live good. Go see your friends. Be with your family. Taste something new." In this week's #TenQuestions, Joshua Wheeler shares a look at the writing process for his new novel, The High Heaven, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. at.pw.org/10qwheeler

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 1d

“This collection offers a halting, cautious, and ultimately mature vision of personal healing.“

Excerpt from review of The Natural Order of Things by @donikakelly.bsky.social , new from @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Read the full review at the link below:

buff.ly/zKgJHRZ

#writingcommunity

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 5d

Catch @donikakelly.bsky.social on tour this fall for THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS! Details:

www.graywolfpress.org/events

Donika Kelly on tour for The Natural Order of Things:

10/7 @ 7 PM | Iowa City, IA
Iowa City Book Festival,
at the Iowa City Public Library

10/10 @ 7 PM | Des Moines, IA
Storyhouse Bookpub
w/ Melissa Febos

10/14 @ 7:30 PM | Atlanta, GA
Charis Books
w/ Jericho Brown

10/23 @ 5:30 PM | Providence, RI
Brown University (McCormack Family Theater, Room 132)

10/25 @ 7:30 PM | Madison, WI
Wisconsin Book Festival,
at the Arts + Literature Laboratory
w/ Elizabeth Bradfield, Keetje Kuipers,
& Sadia Hassan

10/27 @ 7 PM | Los Angeles, CA
Skylight Books
w/ Jennifer Espinoza

Donika Kelly on tour for The Natural Order of Things:

11/1 @ 3 PM | Palm Springs, CA
Pride on the Page Book Festival,
at the Palm Springs Cultural Center
w/ Meredith Maran & Melissa Febos

11/8 @ 10:15 AM | Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival
co-presented by Torch Literary Arts
w/ Tiana Clark

11/8 @ 1:45 PM | Austin, TX
Texas Book Festival
w/ Cecily Parks,
moderated by Jennifer Chang

11/13 @ 7:30 PM | New York, NY
NYU MFA Reading Series,
at Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
w/ Melissa Febos

11/14 @ 5 PM | Bronxville, NY
Sarah Lawrence College
w/ Melissa Febos

11/15 @ 2:30 PM | New York, NY
P&T Knitwear
w/ Ama Codjoe, Marie Howe, & Ladan Osman, hosted by Melissa Febos

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Max Delsohn 🇵🇸 @maxdelsohn.bsky.social · 7d

CRAWL TOUR COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU

Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 7d

📢 Don't miss @maxdelsohn.bsky.social on tour this fall! Details:

www.graywolfpress.org/events?field...

Max Delsohn on tour for Crawl:

10/21 @ 6:30 PM | New York, NY
P&T Knitwear
w/ Dana Spiotta

10/24 @ 6:30 PM | Portland, OR
Always Here Bookstore
w/ Callum Angus

10/25 @ 7 PM | Seattle, WA
Elliott Bay Book Company
w/ Corinne Manning

10/27 @ 7 PM | Los Angeles, CA
North Figueroa Bookshop
co-launch w/ Sara Jaffe

10/29 @ 6 PM | Takoma Park, MD
People’s Book
w/ Luke Sutherland

Max Delsohn on tour for Crawl:

10/30 @ 7 PM | Brookline, MA
Brookline Booksmith
w/ Maria Marchinkoski

11/1 @ 6 PM | Syracuse, NY
Parthenon Books
w/ Jonathan Dee

11/4 @ 6 PM | Austin, TX
Alienated Majesty
w/ Deb Olin Unferth
& DJ set by Olivia Shea

11/5 @ 7 PM | Seattle, WA
Seattle Public Library
co-presented by Third Place Books

11/11 @ 6:30 PM | Ann Arbor, MI
Literati Bookstore
w/ Marne Litfin

Max Delsohn on tour for Crawl:

11/12 @ 6 PM | Madison, WI
A Room of One’s Own Bookstore
w/ Emily Mills

11/13 @ 7 PM | Chicago, IL
Jarvis Square Books
w/ Riley Yaxley

12/6 @ 7 PM | Las Vegas, NV
The Writer’s Block
w/ Maile Chapman

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 5d

"You commit to something, and you just become the incubator for the work."

My conversation with Yuts / @geographyofrobots.bsky.social (maker of the great game NORCO) is up on @graywolfpress.bsky.social's Games Lab today: graywolflab.org/2025/10/03/e...

Electric Geographies

Ander Monson in conversation with Yuts, creator of NORCO I first encountered NORCO last year teaching a course on narrative games. It’s a throwback-style point-and-click video game released in 2022…

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 6d

#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:

bookshop.org/p/books/ques...

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 7d

📢 Don't miss @maxdelsohn.bsky.social on tour this fall! Details:

www.graywolfpress.org/events?field...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 8d

Lucas Rijneveld’s MY HEAVENLY FAVORITE—translated by Michele Hutchison—is “an unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms.”

@graywolfpress.bsky.social fiction from our #TranslationMonth reading list: www.graywolfpress.org/books/my-hea...

My Heavenly Favorite | Graywolf Press

A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It…

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 7d

(61/61) “Say to the animal: heavy is / an apology inside the wind.” — @maidervang.bsky.social, “Death in Captivity, a Surrender” (Primordial) @graywolfpress.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

The cover of Mai Der Vang’s Primordial: a photonegative in dark aqua wash of a bi-horned quadruped standing in the jungle

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 19d

From Jennifer Grotz's book, Still Falling.

Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social.

#poem #books #writing

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 16d

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!

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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · 15d

"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

“What I Might Sing”

“Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, / and, because of you, I was thinking too of America.”

www.newyorker.com

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 16d

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...

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 19d

🆕 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...

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 19d

📢 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...

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 20d

Get your copy here: www.graywolfpress.org/books/shy-0

Shy | Graywolf Press

This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. You mustn’t do that to yourself Shy. You mustn’t hurt yourself like that. He is wandering into the night listening to...

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 20d

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! 🎬 📚

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Loyalty Bookstores @loyaltybooks.bsky.social · 21d

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! 💙

Event graphic with the green cover of Triggered Warning and headshots of Lauren Francis Sharma and Jacinda Townsend and a green stamp that reads “event postponed” across the top.

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B.G. Firmani @bgfirmani.bsky.social · 23d

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...

2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Nonfiction

www.nationalbook.org

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Mrjuliachild666 @sjaffegold.bsky.social · 21d

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...

You can’t beat Reddit

An Interview with Author Mark Doten

open.substack.com

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Mrjuliachild666 @sjaffegold.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 27d

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-...

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 27d

🎉 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

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