We’re pleased to announce the preliminary readers for our 2018 Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize. These talented writers will help choose which manuscripts should be honored as finalists and forward on to our final judge.
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The results of the 2017 July Open Reading Period
Tupelo Press and the selection panel are delighted to announce our decisions for the 2017 July Open Submission Period. We congratulate the following poets, whose books will be published and distributed by Tupelo Press: Amy Beeder of Albuquerque, New Mexico, And So Wax Was Made & Also Honey and Noah Falck of Buffalo, New York, … Read more
The results of the 2017 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Aimee Nezhukumatathil has selected Anna Maria Hong of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as winner of the 2017 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second book of Poetry. Her manuscript Fablesque will be published by Tupelo Press in 2019. Anna Maria Hong is the Visiting Creative Writer … Read more
The results of the 2017 Snowbound Chapbook Award
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Meg Wade has won the 2017 Snowbound Chapbook Award for her manuscript, Slick Like Dark. Her chapbook, selected by Kristina Marie Darling, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2019. Meg Wade is a former Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Creative Writing … Read more
The results of the 2017 Kundiman Poetry Prize
Kundiman and Tupelo Press are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2017 Kundiman Poetry Prize is Adeeba Shahid Talukder. Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet and translator. She translates Urdu and Persian poetry, and cannot help but bring elements from these worlds to her own work in English. A Best of … Read more
Announcing the preliminary readers for the July Open Reading Period
We’re pleased to announce the poets who will serve as preliminary readers for Tupelo’s July Open Reading Period: Angela Narciso Torres, Jeffrey Pethybridge, and Andrea Witzke Slot. Angela Narciso Torres’s poetry collection. Blood Orange, won the Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry. Her work appears in Spoon River Poetry Review, Nimrod, Colorado Review, Cimarron Review, Drunken Boat, and … Read more
Announcing the First Annual Tupelo Broadside Prize!
Submission period: June 1 – June 30 (online submission-date) Prize: Three winners receive $350 each and broadside publication * The First Annual Tupelo Broadside Prize is an open poetry competition. The editors of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly will choose three winners who will each receive $350 in addition to broadside publication by Tupelo Press, 20 … Read more
Introducing Our Preliminary Readers for the Snowbound Chapbook Award
As we begin to evaluate submissions for the 2017 Snowbound Chapbook Award, we are pleased to welcome several preliminary readers to our editorial staff. This accomplished group of writers will assist with selecting the manuscripts that will be honored as finalists and forwarded on to our final judge, Lawrence Raab. ______________________________ A writer and visual artist, … Read more
Introducing Our New Fiction Editor and Nonfiction Editor
The editors of Tupelo Press are delighted and honored to announce that Xu Xi will be joining our staff as Fiction Editor, and Elizabeth J. Colen will serve as our Nonfiction Editor. Xu Xi’s transnational novel, That Man In Our Lives, was released in 2016 by C&R Press. Publishers Weekly describes this hybrid work as … Read more
Introducing Our Preliminary Readers for the Berkshire Prize
As we begin to evaluate submissions for the 2017 Berkshire Prize, we are pleased to welcome several preliminary readers to our editorial staff. This accomplished group of writers will assist with selecting the manuscripts that will be honored as finalists and forwarded on to our final judge, Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Preliminary Readers for the 2017 … Read more