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.
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 Amazon.com or BN.com for current availability.
News
Pamela Uschuk's Crazy Love has won the 2010 American Book Award for Poetry. Official announcement September 2010. 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!
Winner of the 2010 Whitebird Chapbook Series competition will be announced in September 2010. Submission period for the 2011 prize is October 1 to December 31, 2010.
New and Forthcoming Titles
- Steven and Reefka Schneider: Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives / Fronteras: Dibujando las vidas fronterizas
- Pam Uschuk: Crazy Love
- Manuel Ramos: King of the Chicanos
- Jay Brandon: Milagro Lane
- Margaret Randall: My Town: A Memoir of Albuquerque, New Mexico in Poems, Prose and Photographs
- Kamala Platt: On the Line
- Arnold Johnston: The Witching Voice: A Novel from the Life of Robert Burns
- Bryan Woolley: The Wonderful Room: The Making of a Texas Newspaperman
- Margaret Randall: Their Backs to the Sea: Poems and Photographs
- James Hoggard: Triangles of Light: The Edward Hopper Poems
- Carolyn Osborn: Uncertain Ground
- Morgan Atkinson: Uncommon Vision: The Life and Times of John Howard Griffin