Award winner

ANNOUNCING THE RESULTS OF THE 2024 HELENA WHITEHILL BOOK AWARD

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

The results of the 2018 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry

Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that Carl Phillips has selected as winner of the 2018 Berkshire Prize: Ashore, by Laurel Nakanishi From the Judge’s Citation by Carl Phillips: Ashore is an elegant, incisive, and formally restive meditation, a meditation-born of juxtaposition-on life’s incongruencies: the myth of O’ahu as an “island/that sleeps on the ocean floor, … Read more