AA Grapevine Fact File

The Grapevine has been continuously published every month since the first issue appeared in June 1944.
By charter, the Grapevine is entirely self-supporting through the sale of the magazine and related materials. It receives no group contributions sent to the General Service Office.
The 1986 General Service Conference, through an Advisory Action, recognized the AA Grapevine as "The International Monthly Journal of Alcoholics Anonymous."
The Grapevine is produced by a professional staff of editors, writers, and artists, all members of AA, and the charter of the General Service Conference guarantees the editor the right to accept and reject material for publication.
AA co-founder Bill W. introduced the Traditions to the Fellowship in an April 1946 Grapevine article called "Twelve Suggested Points for AA Tradition." Bill W. published more than 150 articles in the Grapevine between1945 and 1970; these were collected in the anthology "The Language of the Heart (1988)."
The Preamble was created by one of the Grapevine's early editors based on the Foreword to the first edition of the Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous) and it first appeared in the June 1947 issue as a way of telling those outside the Fellowship just what AA was all about.
In 1995, at the request of the General Service Conference, the Grapevine began publishing a Spanish-language version called La Viï¿½a.