National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $25 million in grants as part of the NEA’s first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018. Included in this is an Art Works grant of $60,000 to Milkweed Editions.
In this Big Ideas event, Kevin Young will be in conversation with Marlon James on how reality has been distorted and manipulated throughout America’s history.
Join Milkweed Books and The Riveter for the launch of Sally Franson’s debut novel, A Lady’s Guide to Selling Out (Dial Press). Reading and conversation in the Target Performance Hall, followed by signing and reception downstairs at Milkweed Books.
The Loft Literary Center invites you to join us for short readings by Dessa, Donte Collins, Marcie Rendon, Roy Guzmán, and Mai Neng Moua. Book sales by Milkweed Books.
Drinks, books, and camaraderie at Milkweed Books in celebration of Galentine’s Day.
Poet Ed Bok Lee kicks off this new monthly event series with a screening of Arrival, followed by a conversation with Spanish and Latin American Studies professor Andrea Bell. Hosted by Angela Pelster at Bryant Lake Bowl, with books sales provided by Milkweed Books.
Writer Ada Limón recently said, “Poems have always been a place of questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days.”
We all turn to literature for different reasons, but that act of reaching for a book is one we each know intimately. The appeal of a beautiful cover, the feel of a book’s weight and texture; the anticipation of what joy, comfort, truth, or new curiosity might be waiting inside.
Milkweed Editions publishes some twenty books each year, and a passionate, generous community supports every one of them. You support editorial collaboration to help writers develop their books to their…
Grady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, attended the MFA program at Syracuse University, and has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center and the New York State Summer Writers Institute.
Milkweed Editions, in partnership with Riva Ariella Ritvo-Slifka and the Alan B. Slifka Foundation, is pleased to announce that Grady Chambers is the winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. For his manuscript, North American Stadiums, chosen by acclaimed poet and judge Henri Cole, Chambers will receive $10,000 and publication by Milkweed Editions in June 2018.
Exactly two years ago today, Amy and Dave Freeman were journaling at “home” in their tent, camped in the middle of the Boundary Waters. Now they’re the author of a beautiful, important book and are fighting hard to protect and preserve the land.
