Announcing the Semi-Finalists for the 2021 Dorset Prize

Rachel Abramowitz of Santa Monica, California, The Birthday of the Dead  Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Oxford. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Wave Composition, an intern at the Paris Review, a stock analyst (for three months), and has taught English Literature at The … Read more

Tupelo Press Proudly Names Our 2021 Sunken Garden Chapbook Award Winner, Runners-Up, Finalists and Semifinalists

Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Mark Bibbins, has selected Bed by Elizabeth Metzger of Los Angeles, California as winner of the 2021 Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Award!  Elizabeth Metzger is the author of The Spirit Papers (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook The Nutshell … Read more

Announcing the Results of the 2020 July Open Reading Period

This year, the editors at Tupelo Press are grateful to have had the chance to read and reread your manuscripts that came to us in record numbers and record quality. We read over 1,400 manuscripts that came to us from across the United States and around the world.   Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that … Read more

Tupelo Press Announces the Results of the 2020 Dorset Prize

Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Meredith Stricker of Carmel, California has been selected by Maggie Smith from among a field of seventeen finalists for her manuscript “re-wilding” to win the 2020 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize. Meredith Stricker will receive a $3,000 cash prize, a writing residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, publication … Read more

AWP 2020 Panels Featuring Tupelo Press Authors

Thursday 10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.  R175. Love Poems in Place: Ecotone Poets in Fourteen Lines. (Kathryn M. Barber, Anna Maria Hong, Maryann Corbett, V. Penelope Pelizzon, Chad Abushanab) Room 305, Henry B. González Convention Center, Ballroom Level Ecotone’s Fall 2019 Love Issue features poems in 14-line forms, including sonnets, rondels prime, and brefs double. In this … Read more

Announcing the Results of the 2020 Sunken Garden Chapbook Award

Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Cornelius Eady, has selected Salat by Dujie Tahat of Seattle, Washington as winner of the 2020 Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Award.   Dujie Tahat is a Filipino-Jordanian immigrant living in Washington State. The author of Here I Am O My God, selected by Fady Joudah for … Read more

Announcing the Results of the 2019 July Open Reading Period

This year, the editors at Tupelo Press are grateful to have had the chance to read and reread your manuscripts that came to us in record numbers — and record quality. This year we received over eight hundred manuscript submissions from across the United States and around the world.   We would like to extend our sincerest … Read more

Tupelo Press Announces the 2019 Berkshire Prize Results

Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that our judge, Oliver de la Paz, has selected Iliana Rocha of Edmond, Oklahoma from an extraordinary field of finalists as winner of the 2019 Berkshire Prize for her manuscript, The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez. [Photo credit: Vernon Ng] Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing … Read more