Deadline: March 15, 2016 (postmark or online submission date) Prize: $1,000 Now in its 7th year, The Kundiman Poetry Prize is dedicated to publishing exceptional work by Asian American poets at any stage of their career. Winner receives $1,000 and book publication with Tupelo Press. Kundiman is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation … Read more
Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award is Now Open for Submissions! Guidelines Submission period: December 1, 2015 — February 29, 2016 (postmark or online submission-date) Final Judge: Brenda Shaughnessy Prize: $1,000 Prize The Snowbound Chapbook Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 25 copies of the winning title, a … Read more
Tupelo Quarterly, a literary journal, extends and expands upon the vision of Tupelo Press, publishing work by emerging and established writers and artists of many sensibilities and styles. Tupelo Quarterly cultivates generous artistic community, celebrates intellectual curiosity and creative risk, and presumes abundance. We hold the gate open, not closed. Please send us one, single, … Read more
Enter to Win the 2015 Dorset Prize, Judged by Former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky Submission period: September 1 — December 31, 2015 Final Judge: Robert Pinsky Prize: $4,500 A $3,000 cash prize and a week-long residency at MASS MoCA worth $1,500 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 20 copies of the winning title, … Read more
Submission period: August 1 — October 31, 2015 (postmark or online submission-date) Final Judge: C.D. Wright Prize: $1,000 Guidelines The Sunken Garden Poetry Prize is a prestigious national poetry prize for adult writers. Established in 2002, the Prize has drawn submissions from around the country that have been judged by renowned poets such as Martha … Read more
This year, Tupelo Press is grateful to the editors and publisher of 3:A Taos Press for joining us in a six-months process of reading and evaluating each of the submissions, which came to us in record numbers — and record quality. Tupelo Press will publish two of the submitted manuscripts, and 3:A Taos Press, which … Read more
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Peter Stitt has selected Hadara Bar-Nadav of Kansas City, Missouri as winner of the 2015 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize for her chapbook manuscript, Fountain and Furnace. The Sunken Garden Poetry Prize is a prestigious national poetry prize for adult writers. Established in 2002, the Prize has drawn submissions … Read more
Submission period: July 1 – July 31, 2016 (postmark or online-submission date) New in 2015, we’re celebrating our joint venture with 3: A Taos Press, with the July Open submissions to be read and selected by Andrea Watson, Publisher, and Veronica Golos, Director of Acquisitions, for 3: A Taos Press. Throughout the month of July, Tupelo … Read more
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that our judge Carol Frost has selected Patrick Coleman of Ramona, California from an extraordinary field of finalists as winner of the 2015 Berkshire Prize for his manuscript, Fire Season. The winner receives a $3,000 cash prize, publication by Tupelo Press, and national distribution. Patrick Coleman earned a BA … Read more
2022 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry Submission period: January 1 — April 31st (postmark or online submission-date)Final Judge: Julie CarrPrize: $3,000 The Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry includes a cash award of $3,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 20 copies of the winning title, a … Read more