Graywolf Press (Minneapolis, MN) is a nonprofit literary publisher of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and works in translation. It publishes books by risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.
Launched in 2026, the Stylus Prize is the first prize in the U.S. that honors literary arts nonprofits heralded by writers for making significant and essential contributions to their ability to create new work and engage readers. Each recipient nonprofit receives an unrestricted award of $250,000 from the Literary Arts Fund to fuel its mission and contribute to its continued momentum helping authors write the future.
Stylus Prize winners are nominated by dozens of writers across the U.S. at the invitation of the Literary Arts Fund, which makes final award decisions. Writers serve anonymously and nominations are not otherwise accepted. The Literary Arts Fund plans to award the prize annually in each of the subsequent four years to three literary arts nonprofits per year.
The inaugural recipients of the Stylus Prize are:
Graywolf Press (Minneapolis, MN) is a nonprofit literary publisher of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and works in translation. It publishes books by risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.
One Story (Brooklyn, NY) is an award-winning, independent nonprofit that celebrates contemporary literary short stories by publishing, educating, and mentoring the authors who write them.
The Porch (Nashville, TN) serves to inspire, educate, and connect writers and readers of all ages and stages through creative writing classes, community-building experiences and meetups for writers, retreats and residencies, and a magazine, SWING.
