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In celebration of Graywolf's fiftieth anniversary, join us for a fundraising gala in our home city of Minneapolis. This event will feature essential Graywolf authors Heid E. Erdrich, Donika Kelly, Layli Long Soldier, Manuel Muñoz, Kevin Young and others. The evening offers a VIP dinner, dessert and cocktail reception, program, and literary-themed auction.
Your tickets and sponsorships support Graywolf's mission to publish risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature. Show your support for the Press during this momentous anniversary year! You'll have a chance to meet Graywolf writers and editors during the evening's festivities.
All attendees will receive a limited-edition custom tote.
Individual tickets are $50 for the dessert reception and program and $500 for the special VIP dinner (beginning at 5:30PM). Sponsorships start at $1,200 and up.
Want more information about sponsoring the Graywolf Literary Gala? See full details here or contact Rachel Fulkerson (fulkerson@graywolfpress.org) with questions.
When?
Thursday, September 19, 2024
7:00 PM CDT - 9:30 PM CDT
Where?
Machine Shop
300 2nd St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Cocktail attire encouraged.
Heid E. Erdrich
Heid E. Erdrich is the current Minneapolis Poet Laureate, and editor of the poetry anthology New Poets of Native Nations, winner of the American Book Award and hailed by the Star Tribune as “distinctly contemporary in its urgency, diversity and vibrancy.” She is the author of six collections of poetry, including Little Big Bully and Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media. She is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain, and lives and teaches in Minneapolis.
Donika Kelly
Donika Kelly is the author of the poetry collection The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, which Oprah.com celebrated as “a lionhearted odyssey through the self.” She is also the author of Bestiary, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Hurston/Wright Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She teaches at the University of Iowa.
Layli Long Soldier
Layli Long Soldier is the author of WHEREAS, which Jesmyn Ward for the New York Times Magazine praised as a poetry collection that makes one “believe again in the power of writing and the truths that it can reveal.” WHEREAS is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Manuel Muñoz
Manuel Muñoz is a MacArthur Fellow and the author of the story collection The Consequences, as well as two previous collections and a novel. The Consequences, called “shining and hypnotic, and suffused with care and tenderness” by Michael Schaub for NPR, is winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and longlisted for the Story Prize. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Kevin Young
Kevin Young is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including Stones, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995–2015, longlisted for the National Book Award; Book of Hours, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Jelly Roll: a blues, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry; Emile and the Field, named one of the New York Times Best Children’s Books of 2022; and The Grey Album, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award, a New York Times Notable Book, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Young is the editor of nine other volumes, most recently the acclaimed anthology African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Society of American Historians, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and a recipient of the Harvard Arts Medal. The poetry editor of The New Yorker, where he hosts the poetry podcast, Young lives and works in Washington, D.C.
Coming in from out of town? Join us at the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel - The Depot for a special group rate of 10% off lowest rate.
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Ed McConaghay & Margaret Telfer
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