Tupelo Press
Literary non-profit. Publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers since 1999.
- The Dorset Prize deadline is January 31st! A cash prize and a 2 week-long residency in Port Angeles, WA and publication by Tupelo Press, 25 copies of the winning title, a book launch, and NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION THROUGH U. OF CHICAGO PRESS. tupelopress.subfolios.com/submit
- There are still a couple of places on February’s 30/30 Challenge cohort! Come and write a poem a day for 30 days while raising money for our nonprofit. It’s a wonderful place to chronicle the times in poetry - and more than ever, these times need to be chronicled... tupelopress.org/3030-applica...
- Now accepting registrations for the February Online Manuscript Conference! February 20th - 23rd tupelopress.org/conferences
- You Could Never Take a Car to Greenland, by Maggie Smith (from her third poetry collection, Good Bones) tupelopress.org/bookstore/p/...
- “…a rigorous autopsy of memory…as visually striking as it is textually resonant” Gorgeous review of Ángel García’s award-winning Indifferent Cities in @smilepolitely.com www.smilepolitely.com/arts/angel-g...
- There are still a few places on February’s 30/30 Challenge cohort! Come and write a poem a day for 30 days while raising money for our nonprofit. It’s a wonderful place to chronicle the times in poetry - and more than ever, these times need to be chronicled... tupelopress.org/the-3030-pro...
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- Reposted by Tupelo PressI’d love it if you took a minute to read my @tupelopress.bsky.social 30/30 poem draft for today! If you’d like, you can sponsor my writing and help keep Tupelo printing for another year: tupelopress.networkforgood.com/projects/274...
- You can now preorder The Book of Marys and Glaciers by Carrie Olivia Adams from our brilliant distributor, the University of Chicago Press website. Use the code UCPNEW for 30% off! tupelopress.org/bookstore/p/...
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- “…a beautiful and moving collection of poems that explore the Standing Rock protests over the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.” thepedestalmagazine.com/teresa-dzieg...
- Reposted by Tupelo PressMy poet partner @talkinghyphae.bsky.social is participating in @tupelopress.bsky.social 's 30/30 Project this month! Follow along as they write their way through a "poetry marathon" -- first poem is here: tupelopress.org/the-3030-pro...
- The Dorset Prize deadline has been extended through January 31st! A cash prize and a two-week residency in Port Angeles, WA, publication by Tupelo Press, 25 copies of the winning title, a book launch, and NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION! tupelopress.subfolios.com/submit
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- Lovely to see @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social’s Mycocosmic on @clmporg.bsky.social Most-Celebrated Books of 2025! www.clmp.org/news/clmp-me...
- Lovely to see @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social’s Mycocosmic on @clmporg.bsky.social Most-Celebrated Books of 2025! www.clmp.org/news/clmp-me...
- As we near the end of 2025, it’s so wonderful to see so many of our brilliant authors come out on @clmporg.bsky.social’s Poetry of 2025 like an encore 👏 www.clmp.org/news/poetry-...
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- Deadline this Saturday! The Helena Whitehill Book Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, a book launch, national and international distribution, and a one-week residence at Gentle House on the Olympic Peninsula. tupelopress.org/the-helena-w...
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- Reposted by Tupelo PressShenandoah and intern Ellis Nicholson did a terrific job with this interview about Mycocosmic. Again, I get a little ecstatic about fungal connections, but that has become a professional liability! www.shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/an-i... @tupelopress.bsky.social
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- Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that we have selected for publication five (!) manuscripts out of the nearly 1,400 submissions received during this year’s Summer Open Reading Period. The manuscripts are:
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- “These poems manage to tilt the blinds to reveal the undressed mind, with interior reflections melding with those outside.” Wonderful review of Allyson Paty’s Jalousie in Calyx Press www.calyxpress.org/reviews/jalo...
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- We deeply mourn the loss of Baron Wormser, multi-genre literary master, Guggenheim Fellow and former Poet Laureate of Maine, author of 15 books, including one he graced us with: “Legends of the Slow Explosion-Eleven Modern Lives,” brilliant portraits of Rosa Parks… 1/2
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- Reposted by Tupelo PressWarm thanks to Alexis David, Jenny Grassl, KB Kinkel & Kristina Marie Darling for this critical symposium on Mycocosmic in Tupelo Quarterly. Inspiring reviewers to read about mushrooms while in the bathtub: life goal unlocked. @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...
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- “Indifferent Cities, in inspiring the reader to consider these paradoxes, is anything but indifferent. On the contrary, it is poignant.” Review of Ángel García‘s Indifferent Cities on Compulsive Reader compulsivereader.com/2025/09/18/n...
- Tupelo Quarterly issue 36 is out now! Which means aside from incredible poetry, prose and art, submissions for TQ37 are now OPEN! www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...
- “Teresa Dzieglewicz’s debut… emerges from deep community with the youth- and Indigenous-led movement opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock Reservation.” Review of Teresa Dzieglewicz‘s SOMETHING SMALL OF HOW TO SEE A RIVER in rhinopoetry.org/reviews/tere...
- "riveting... rich, varied, and layered" - review of Lesley Wheeler's Mycocosmic on Action, Spectacle www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
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- “a book of courage and sorrow, of introspection and challenges” - a review of Phantom Number, an Abecedarium for April by Spring Ulmer on Action, Spectacle www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
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- Only three seats left for the September Online Manuscript Conference! www.tupelopress.org/tupelo-press...
- 🚨 Just a FEW SPOTS LEFT for the October 30/30 project and ONE SPOT left in November! 🚨 Write a poem a day for 30 days while raising money for our nonprofit. Maybe you’ll be the 100th participant to go on to get a collection published! www.tupelopress.org/about-30-30-...
- Lovely to see Indifferent Cities by Ángel García and The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez by Iliana Rocha featured on @clmporg.bsky.social’s Reading List for Hispanic Heritage Month 2025! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
- “Important and essential” - a review of Indifferent Cities, by Ángel García www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
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- Justin Gardiner’s Small Altars is “poignant, vulnerably authentic, and subtly humorous” says The Los Angeles Review losangelesreview.org/small-altars...
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- The Helena Whitehill Book Award Now open to poetry manuscripts of any length, and also to creative nonfiction, including essays, memoirs, and hybrid work. Deadline: October 31st Cash Prize: $1,000 Judge: Jane Wong tupelopress.submittable.com/submit
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- Out now: Force Drift: An Essay in the Epic Jeffrey Pethybridge In his extraordinary second collection, poet Jeffrey Pethybridge confronts the ethical disaster of the torture program that the United States used to advance the so-called global war on terror. www.tupelopress.org/book/force-d...
- Accepting registrations for the September Online Manuscript Conference! September 26th – 29th Four days of real-world ideas and suggestions to level up your poetry manuscript. Over 95 of our conference alumni have had their books taken post-conference! www.tupelopress.org/manuscript-c...
- Daphne by Kristen Case was just called “stunning” by @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
- “ridiculously brilliant, a speculative masterpiece” Amazing words from Junot Diaz on Laurie Sheck’s Cyborg Fever. Check out Junot’s Substack! junot.substack.com/p/read-watch...
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- Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that INFINITE SCROLL // INFINITE EYE by Martin Rock of Solana Beach, California is the winner of the 2025 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry. Congratulations @infinite-scroll.bsky.social www.tupelopress.org/tupelo-press...
- The Art of Crafting a Novel: In Conversation with Laurie Sheck. Fabulous interview with CYBORG FEVER author Laurie Sheck on @thenewschool.bsky.social blog writing.newschool.org/the-art-of-c...
- The Art of Crafting a Novel: In Conversation with Laurie Sheck. Fabulous interview with CYBORG FEVER author Laurie Sheck on the The New School blog writing.newschool.org/the-art-of-c...
- The Tupelo Press Summer Open Reading Period - ONE WEEK left to submit! Selected manuscripts will receive publication by Tupelo Press, a $1,000 advance, a book launch, and national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion. tupelopress.subfolios.com/submit
- We’re holding open submissions for book-length (48-90 pages) and chapbook-length (28-47 pages) poetry collections. Selected manuscripts will receive publication, a $1,000 advance, a book launch, and national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion. tupelopress.subfolios.com/submit
- A review of Open House: Conversations With Writers About Community edited by Kristina Marie Darling compulsivereader.com
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- Kate Bowers wrote a fabulous review of the Tupelo Press Manuscript Conference experience. The next one is September 26th – 29th and registrations are open! www.tupelopress.org/manuscript-c...
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- On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other - Laurie Sheck for @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/on-the-dehum...
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- Fantastic review of Cate Peebles’s The Haunting on The Compulsive Reader. "The Haunting by Cate Peebles is a genre-bending, intertextual piece that seeks to explore the intersection of horror and feminism.” compulsivereader.com/2025/08/02/a...
- TP author Jennifer Militello, Poet Laureate Fellow of New Hampshire, has been selected as one of the American Academy 2025 Poet Laureate Fellows! Congratulations Jennifer! poets.org/academy-amer...
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- Something Small of How to See a River by Teresa Dzieglewicz (out October 1) was included in @debutiful.bsky.social’s list of 10 poetry collections you should pre-order right now - wise advice! debutiful.net/2025/07/01/1...
- We are seeking applications for an open volunteer position: Education coordinator. Fully remote, less than five hours a week. Interested applicants should send a letter of interest and a current C.V. to the Editor-in-Chief, Kristina Marie Darling, who can be reached on KDarling@tupelopress.org
- “The byzantine density and idiosyncratic beauty of G. C. Waldrep” - superb review of The Opening Ritual in the Times Literary Supplement @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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- How marvellous to see Christopher Merrill, author of many books — including Boat, published by Tupelo Press in 2013 — described by Words Without Borders ‘A latter-day Herodotus.’ wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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- Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Deborah Landau, has selected Before the Flood & After by Stephen Tuttle of Provo, Utah as the winner of the 2025 Snowbound Chapbook Prize! Congratulations Stephen! www.tupelopress.org/tupelo-press...
