Tupelo Press

July Open-Submissions Guidelines

During the month of July, submissions are accepted from anyone writing in the English language (whether in the United States or abroad).

Make sure that your cover page includes the title, your name and contact information, including address, phone number and email address.

There is a reading fee of $25 for each manuscript submitted. Why a reading fee? We are an independent, nonprofit literary press. Reading fees help defray, but do not by any means cover, the significant cost of publishing the many books we select outside of our competitions. Multiple submissions are accepted, so long as each submission is accompanied by a separate $25 reading fee. Manuscripts that have been submitted during this open reading period (July 2009) may not be revised and submitted again unless they are accompanied by an additional $25 reading fee.

Online Submission

In 2009, Tupelo Press is accepting online manuscript submissions. Click here to submit electronically. The online submission system will be accepting poetry manuscripts between July 1 and July 31, 2009.

Submission via Postal Mail

We also accept manuscripts via postal mail. Please include the $25 reading fee, payable to Tupelo Press. Also include a self-addressed postcard for acknowledgment of receipt of your manuscript and SASE for notification. Manuscripts will not be returned. You may include an acknowledgments page, listing previously published poems.

Please Note New Address

Your manuscript must be postmarked between July 1 and July 31, 2009 and sent to:

Open Submissions
Tupelo Press
PO Box 1767
North Adams MA 01247