Graywolf Literary Salon:
Writing with our Ghosts

Join us for the 2023 Graywolf Literary Salon

Walk-ins welcome! Tickets will be available at the door. We hope to see you tonight!

The 2023 Graywolf Literary Salon: Writing with our Ghosts will feature Rogers Reeves (Dark Days), Shannon Sanders (Company), and Sally Wen Mao (The Kingdom of Surfaces) with Director and Publisher Carmen Giménez on September 28, 2023, from 6:00 - 9:00 PM at the Minneapolis Event Centers.

All proceeds support Graywolf Press, a nonprofit publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature. Reserve your place today! The generosity of donors like you helps Graywolf flourish as a leading independent publisher.

TICKET OPTIONS: 

• Bookmark Ticket: $50
  • ​Ticket to main program from 7:30 - 8:30 PM (doors open at 7:00 PM)
  • Includes one complimentary drink, sweet treat, and book signing
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• ​Publisher Ticket: $150
  • ​Ticket to VIP reception from 6:00 - 7:30 PM, with delicious appetizers, wines by Knudsen Vineyards, and drinks
  • Ticket to main program from 7:30 - 8:30 PM, with reserved front-section seating
  • Signed books by the featured authors

• Manuscript Sponsor: $1,000
  • ​TWO tickets to VIP reception from 6:00 - 7:30 PM, with delicious appetizers, wines by Knudsen Vineyards, and drinks
  • TWO tickets to main program from 7:30 - 8:30 PM, with reserved front-section seating
  • Signed books by the featured authors
  • Name recognition/logo in the program

• Paperback Sponsor: $2,500
  • ​FOUR tickets to VIP reception from 6:00 - 7:30 PM, with delicious appetizers, wines by Knudsen Vineyards, and drinks
  • FOUR tickets to main program from 7:30 - 8:30 PM, with reserved front-section seating
  • Signed books by the featured authors
  • Name recognition/logo in the program
  • 1/4 page ad

• Hardcover Sponsor: $5,000
  • ​EIGHT tickets to VIP reception from 6:00 - 7:30 PM, with delicious appetizers, wines by Knudsen Vineyards, and drinks
  • EIGHT tickets to main program from 7:30 - 8:30 PM, with reserved front-section seating
  • Signed books by the featured authors
  • Name recognition/logo in the program
  • 1/2 page ad and social media posts
  • Bonus recognition at a Graywolf community event of your choice

ROGER REEVES is the author of two previous poetry collections, King Me and Best Barbarian, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His essays have appeared in Granta, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. Reeves’s Dark Days: Fugitive Essays (August 2023) is a crucial book that calls for community, solidarity, and joy, even in—especially in—these dark days. Vulture recently called it “stunning” and applauded how it “captures the sorrows inherent in the way we live today even while keeping a keen eye toward opportunity for joy.”

SHANNON SANDERS lives and works near Washington, DC. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Electric Literature, Joyland, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere, and was a 2020 winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her story collection Company (October 2023), which Danielle Evans called “brilliant and immaculate,” is a richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut about the lives and lore of one Black family.

SALLY WEN MAO is the author of two previous poetry collections, Mad Honey Symposium and Oculus, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A former fellow at the New York Public Library Cullman Center, she lives in New York City. Morgan Parker calls Mao “a consistently inspiring and exciting voice,” and her new book The Kingdom of Surfaces (August 2023) is a virtuosic collection that examines art and history to frame an important conversation on beauty, empire, commodification, and violence.