Wolfson Press

07/15/2025

Covers of exciting poetry books coming out this fall: Julia B. Levine's heart-rending collection about an infant grandson's struggle with cancer, and Kenneth Pobo's clear-eyed exploration of a doomed working-class marriage.

07/11/2025

We're happy to announce that Sera Gamble is the winner of our 2025 Poetry Chapbook Prize for her manuscript "Our Lady of the Sick Girls," a collection that judge Nancy Botkin calls "all at once engaging, heartbreaking, and funny. Very funny.”

06/28/2025

Here's the cover of David Dodd Lee's new book:

06/28/2025

David Dodd Lee, director of our sister press, 42 Miles Press, has a beautiful new book out from Broadstone, a poetry collection called THE BAY.

Publication Date: July 15, 2025 Paperback, 102 pages ISBN: 978-1-966677-09-3 David Dodd Lee’s new poetry collection The Bay is a “a hymn made out of spider webs.” Lee creates a pulsing lyrical narrative of our nature, a fragile but enduring ecosystem—animal, bird, fish, and human. “Persona...

06/26/2025

Congratulations to our 2025 poetry chapbook finalists! Our contest judge, Nancy Botkin, has been impressed by the strength of these collections. We hope to announce the winner soon!

06/12/2025

Congratulations to the 20 semifinalists in our 2025 poetry chapbook contest. Great writing is happening out there!

05/26/2025

Wolfson Press is proud to be the purveyor of Nancy Botkin's 2019 book, THE NEXT INFINITY, published by Broadstone Press but recently remaindered. Buy a copy here:

Description The Next InfinityPublisher: Broadstone Books (this volume now distributed by Wolfson Press)by Nancy Botkinpaperback, 88 pages2019 Reviews“If I could just see the inside of my head. // If I could harvest the mind’s flutter,” muses Nancy Botkin in her stunning new collection, The Nex...

05/06/2025

A tragic note from CLMP today:

Publishers Weekly reports that the National Endowment for the Arts has rescinded 2025 grants for at least 40 of the 51 publishers who received them. Four Literary Arts staff members at the NEA, including Literary Arts Director Amy Stolls, have announced that their last day will be May 30. The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration proposed eliminating the NEA, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Library and Museum Services in the national budget for the next fiscal year.

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04/23/2025

Our student awards night, featuring a reading by Dionne Irving.

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02/22/2025

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PROSE PRIZE

Congratulations to Terry Engel, winner of our 2023 prose competition for his novel, ARTIFACTS, a riveting story about a conflict between two brothers who have taken very different paths in life, starting from the same point as anti-government survivalists in the American west. While the younger brother goes off to college to study archaeology, the older brother is radicalized and is ultimately accused of murder. The younger brother searches for him in the Utah wilderness and tries to piece together what has gone wrong.

It was a difficult decision for our judge, Kelcey Ervick, because of the excellence of the competing manuscripts.

01/06/2025

At IU South Bend, our sister press has this major announcement:

Dana Jaye Cadman's wildly inventive Nova is the winner of this year’s 42 Miles Press Poetry Award! Congratulations, Dana!

01/04/2025

One of our best-selling poets, Steve Henn, has three new poems in THE GLACIER: two powerful narrative poems and one contemplative poem that tears at the heart. Steve is a poet you keep going back to, knowing you'll find the voice of a friend.

The Glacier Issue Three Winter 2024 Senior Year I told Coach I’d not be writing JV ballgame storiesfor the local paper anymore, nextI was perpetually driving home stoneda mist over the streets, all…