Welcome to Wingspress!

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We currently offer over 130 titles. Come on inside to discover the real corazón of American small press publishing.

Wings Press publishes multicultural books, chapbooks, ebooks and broadsides that, we hope, enlighten the human spirit and enliven the mind. Everyone ever associated with Wings has been or is a writer, and we know well that writing is a transformational art form capable of changing the world, primarily by allowing us to glimpse something of each other's souls. Good writing is innovative, insightful, and interesting. But most of all it is honest.

Likewise, Wings Press is committed to treating the planet itself as a partner. Thus the press uses as much recycled material as possible, from the paper on which the books are printed to the boxes in which they are shipped.

Upcoming Events

  • Sudeep Sen at Nobel event

    Delhi-based poet, Sudeep Sen, author of numerous books, including two from Wings Press, Distracted Geographies: An Archipelago of Intent and Prayer Flag, has been invited to address the Nobel Laureate Week being held in St Lucia (home to Nobel prize winning poet and playwright, Derek Walcott) in January 2013. Eminent participants at the week include: Derek Walcott himself, Seamus Heaney, Wole Soyinka, other literature laureates, international writers, critics and publishers. Sudeep is the first Indian and the only one thus far from the Asian, Australasian-Pacific, African, South American region to be selected and given the honor to deliver the keynote lecture and present his own poetry.  Congratulations, Sudeep! 

What's New

  • 2012 News

    • Whitebird Chapbook News — Winner announcement!
    • eBooks
    • Black Like Me 50th Anniversary News
    • New Book Prizes
    • Author News

50th Anniversary of an American Classic

Black Like MeNovember 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of the American classic, Black Like Me, one of the most important documents of the Civil Rights movement. Wings Press is proud to publish the definitive Griffin Estate E-book Editions of almost all of John Howard Griffin's books:

  • Black Like Me — Ebook (December 2010)

  • New 50th Anniversary hardback edition Black Like Me (March 2011), re-edited from the original manuscripts

  • The Devil Rides Outside — Ebook only (December 2010)

  • Nuni — Ebook only (December 2010)

  • Street of the Seven Angels — Ebook and print editions available now.

  • Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Sight —Ebook only (December 2010)

  • Available Light: Exile in Mexico — Ebook and print editions available now.

  • Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton —Ebook only (December 2010)

  • Prison of Culture — Ebook (September 2011) and paperback original (September 2011)

PLUS

  • Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me — Ebook only (December 2010)

  • Uncommon Vision: The Life and Times of John Howard Griffin — DVD, available now.

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