Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Lightboxes by Rochelle Hurt of Orlando, Floridahas been selected by Eleanor Wilner to win the 2025 Dorset Prize. Hurt receives a $3,000 cash prize, a writing residency, publication by Tupelo Press, and national distribution. Rochelle Hurt is the author of the poetry collections The J Girls: A Reality Show (Indiana … Read more
Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Ilya Kaminsky, has selected Conjugations of Mothering by Mónica Gomery of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as winner of the 2024 Helena Whitehill Book Award. Mónica Gomery is the author of Might Kindred, winner of the Prairie Schooner/Raz-Shumaker Book Prize (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), and Here … Read more
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that we will publish three manuscripts submitted to us throughout this year’s Summer Open Reading Period. The editors are grateful to have read (and reread) more than 1,100 Summer Open manuscripts that came to us, not only in record numbers, but in record quality—arriving at our doorstep from throughout … Read more
Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Matthew Rohrer, has selected Slipstream by Diana Cao of Cambridge, Massachusetts as the winner of the 2024 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry. The editors of Tupelo Press also had the honor and pleasure of selecting an international winner, Avia Tadmor, … Read more
Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Monica Ferrell, has selected Extinction Song by John James of Louisville, Kentucky as the winner of the 2024 Snowbound Chapbook Prize! John will receive a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 25 copies of the winning title, a book launch, … Read more
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles by Janée J. Baugher of Seattle, Washington has been selected by Shane McCrae to win the 2023 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize. Baugher receives a $3,000 cash prize, a writing residency, publication by Tupelo Press, and national distribution though University of Chicago Press. Janée J. … Read more
Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Jane Wong, has selected Indifferent Cities by Ángel García of Champaign, Illinois as winner of the inaugural Helena Whitehill Book Award. Ángel García, the proud son of Mexican immigrants, is the author of Teeth Never Sleep (University of Arkansas Press), recipient of a CantoMundo Poetry … Read more
Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Diana Khoi Nguyen, has selected Jalousie by Allyson Paty of Brooklyn, New York as the winner of the 2023 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry! Allyson Paty will receive a $3,000 cash prize, in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 20 … Read more
Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Traci Brimhall, has selected Revenge Bodies by Cate Peebles of Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania, as the winner of the 2023 Snowbound Chapbook Prize! Cate will receive a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 25 copies of the winning title, a book … Read more
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Phantom Number: An Abecedarium for April by Spring Ulmer of Essex, New York has been selected by Diane Seuss to win the 2022 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize. Ulmer receives an $8,500 cash prize, a writing residency, publication by Tupelo Press, and national distribution. Spring Ulmer is the author … Read more