Welcome to Wings Press! We currently offer over 100 titles. Come on inside to discover the real corazón of American small press publishing.
Wings Press attempts to produce multicultural books, chapbooks, CDs, DVDs 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.
Read Anis Shivani's Nov. 17, 2010 feature on Wings Press in the Huffington Post
Whitebird Chapbook News—Winner announcement!
The winner of the 2009-2010 Whitebird Chapbook competition is JoAnn Balingit. Her manuscript, Forage, will be published this coming October both as a hand-bound chapbook and as an ebook. Runners-up were Alison Peligren and Frances Hatfield. Pelegrin's submission has subsequently been enlarged and will be published later this year by the University of Akron Press. Frances Hatfield grew up in east Texas and Louisiana, and studied poetry at the University of Dallas and the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she was a UC Poet Laureate Award winner. Her work has appeared in Quarry West and the Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets.
E-books
Most Wings Press titles are either available now or will be available by the fall of 2010 as eBooks in all formats, including Kindle, iPad, B&N Nook, and Sony Reader. Check the source for your reading device for current availability.
Black Like Me 50th Anniversary News
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
The press is building around the 50th Anniversary edition ofBlack Like Me!
Read Bruce Watson's "Black Like Me, 50 Years Later" in Smithsonian Oct. 2011)
Read "Black Like Me, A book for our time" inHumanities Texas (Oct. 2011)
November 2011 marks 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) and a new 50th Anniversary hardback edition (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.
New Book Prizes and Author News
- Wings author Carmen Tafolla will be featured on HBO Latino in "Habla Texas", part of the critically acclaimed Habla series. Check your listings.
Tamales, Comadres, and the Meaning of Civilization by Ellen Riojas Clark and Carmen Tafolla has been selected as the November 2011 Book of the Month by Las Comadres Book Club
King of the Chicanos by Manuel Ramoss has been selected by the Las Comadres Book Club as a special topic book for July 2010.- Victoria GarcÃa Zapata Klein, author of Another Waterbug Is Murdered While It Rains in Texas and Peace in the Corazón in was featured in a recent San Antonio Current profile.
- SofÃa Starnes's Fully Into Ashes was reviewed on April 23 in the San Antonio Express-News.
- Maria Espinosa's 2009 novel, Dying Unfinished, has won the PEN Oakland's Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence.
- Pamela Uschuk's Crazy Love won the 2010 American Book Award for Poetry. Check out the new video of her reading on the Crazy Love page, and listen to a track from her CD Finding Peaches in the Desert.
- Carmen Tafolla's The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans won the 2009 Tomás Rivera Award for Mexican American young adult literature.
- Carolyn Osborn has a new video of her reading from Uncertain Ground.
- Cecilia Urbina's novel, A Tuesday Like Today, winner of Mexico's Premio Coatlicue, was nominated for the 2010 IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award for works making "a lasting contribution to excellence in world literature"
- Carmen Tafolla's That's Not Fair / No Es Justo has just gone into its 4th printing!
New and Forthcoming Titles
- Margaret Randall: As If The Empty Chair / Como si la silla vacia
- John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me (50th Anniversary Edition)
- Lorna Dee Cervantes: Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems
- Pam Uschuk: Crazy Love
- John Howard Griffin: The Devil Rides Outside
- John Howard Griffin: Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton
- JoAnn Balingit: Forage
- Sofia M. Starnes: Fully Into Ashes
- Paul Christensen: The Human Condition
- Linda Hogan: Indios
- Marjorie Agosín: Inhabiting Memory: Essays on Memory and Human Rights in the Americas
- Dave Oliphant: KD: A Jazz Biography
- Manuel Ramos: King of the Chicanos
- Robert Bonazzi: Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me
- James Hoggard: The Mayor's Daughter
- David Lee: Moments of Delicate Balance
- Mary Margaret Rode: Morning Songs
- John Howard Griffin: Nuni
- John Howard Griffin: Prison of Culture: Beyond Black Like Me
- John Howard Griffin: Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision
- Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson: Stunned Into Being: Essays on the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes
- Ellen Riojas Clark and Carmen Tafolla: Tamales, Comadres, and the Meaning of Civilization
- Morgan Atkinson: Uncommon Vision: The Life and Times of John Howard Griffin
