Tupelo Press
@tupelopress.bsky.social
Literary non-profit. Publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers since 1999.
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“I’ve had my nervous breakdown. I’ve had electric shock. // I’ve had my figurative lobotomy, courtesy of patriarchy / and the cops.” —Lise Goett, “Flame-Shirt Rag” @tupelopress.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“I’ve had my nervous breakdown. I’ve had electric shock. // I’ve had my figurative lobotomy, courtesy of patriarchy / and the cops.” —Lise Goett, “Flame-Shirt Rag” @tupelopress.bsky.social
Deadline this Saturday!
The Helena Whitehill Book Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, a book launch, national and international distribution, and a one-week residence at Gentle House on the Olympic Peninsula.
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The Helena Whitehill Book Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, a book launch, national and international distribution, and a one-week residence at Gentle House on the Olympic Peninsula.
tupelopress.org/the-helena-w...
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Deadline this Saturday!
The Helena Whitehill Book Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, a book launch, national and international distribution, and a one-week residence at Gentle House on the Olympic Peninsula.
tupelopress.org/the-helena-w...
The Helena Whitehill Book Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, a book launch, national and international distribution, and a one-week residence at Gentle House on the Olympic Peninsula.
tupelopress.org/the-helena-w...
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I’m delighted to be included in the “Best Spiritual Literature” anthology. Thank you to editor @luke-hankins.bsky.social and to The Inflectionist Review, who first published the poem. “Inversions.” is from “Deś,” forthcoming from @tupelopress.bsky.social … My cup overflows. 🙏🏽
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I’m delighted to be included in the “Best Spiritual Literature” anthology. Thank you to editor @luke-hankins.bsky.social and to The Inflectionist Review, who first published the poem. “Inversions.” is from “Deś,” forthcoming from @tupelopress.bsky.social … My cup overflows. 🙏🏽
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I will watch / as you blink in and out of recognition. / I will watch your leaves yellow and learn / a new name for you.
— Wheeler Light in @tupelopress.bsky.social
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— Wheeler Light in @tupelopress.bsky.social
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Wheeler Light — “Itinerary”
Later, we will be friends/and after that, we will be strangers./Do you want to be strangers,/smiling at each other for the first time?
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November 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I will watch / as you blink in and out of recognition. / I will watch your leaves yellow and learn / a new name for you.
— Wheeler Light in @tupelopress.bsky.social
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— Wheeler Light in @tupelopress.bsky.social
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Shenandoah and intern Ellis Nicholson did a terrific job with this interview about Mycocosmic. Again, I get a little ecstatic about fungal connections, but that has become a professional liability! www.shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/an-i... @tupelopress.bsky.social
An Interview With Lesley Wheeler on Mycocosmic
Shenandoah intern Ellis Nicholson sat down with poetry editor Lesley Wheeler to talk about her sixth poetry collection, Mycocosmic, and her writing process.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Shenandoah and intern Ellis Nicholson did a terrific job with this interview about Mycocosmic. Again, I get a little ecstatic about fungal connections, but that has become a professional liability! www.shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/an-i... @tupelopress.bsky.social
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🙏🏽Thank you @tupelopress.bsky.social for offering “deś” such a beautiful home. And congratulations to Alison Granucci, Valerie Martínez, @mdsnediker.bsky.social and Mathew Weitman!
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that we have selected for publication five (!) manuscripts out of the nearly 1,400 submissions received during this year’s Summer Open Reading Period.
The manuscripts are:
The manuscripts are:
October 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
🙏🏽Thank you @tupelopress.bsky.social for offering “deś” such a beautiful home. And congratulations to Alison Granucci, Valerie Martínez, @mdsnediker.bsky.social and Mathew Weitman!
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that we have selected for publication five (!) manuscripts out of the nearly 1,400 submissions received during this year’s Summer Open Reading Period.
The manuscripts are:
The manuscripts are:
October 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that we have selected for publication five (!) manuscripts out of the nearly 1,400 submissions received during this year’s Summer Open Reading Period.
The manuscripts are:
The manuscripts are:
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October 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“These poems manage to tilt the blinds to reveal the undressed mind, with interior reflections melding with those outside.”
Wonderful review of Allyson Paty’s Jalousie in Calyx Press
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Wonderful review of Allyson Paty’s Jalousie in Calyx Press
www.calyxpress.org/reviews/jalo...
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“These poems manage to tilt the blinds to reveal the undressed mind, with interior reflections melding with those outside.”
Wonderful review of Allyson Paty’s Jalousie in Calyx Press
www.calyxpress.org/reviews/jalo...
Wonderful review of Allyson Paty’s Jalousie in Calyx Press
www.calyxpress.org/reviews/jalo...
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THE MANY DEATHS OF INOCENCIO RODRIGUEZ by Iliana Rocha is on our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list!
This @tupelopress.bsky.social collection “chronicles an obsession with the 1971 unsolved murder of Rocha’s grandfather while interrogating the true crime genre.” www.tupelopress.org/product/the-...
This @tupelopress.bsky.social collection “chronicles an obsession with the 1971 unsolved murder of Rocha’s grandfather while interrogating the true crime genre.” www.tupelopress.org/product/the-...
THE MANY DEATHS OF INOCENCIO RODRIGUEZ
Iliana Rocha
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October 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
THE MANY DEATHS OF INOCENCIO RODRIGUEZ by Iliana Rocha is on our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list!
This @tupelopress.bsky.social collection “chronicles an obsession with the 1971 unsolved murder of Rocha’s grandfather while interrogating the true crime genre.” www.tupelopress.org/product/the-...
This @tupelopress.bsky.social collection “chronicles an obsession with the 1971 unsolved murder of Rocha’s grandfather while interrogating the true crime genre.” www.tupelopress.org/product/the-...
We deeply mourn the loss of Baron Wormser, multi-genre literary master, Guggenheim Fellow and former Poet Laureate of Maine, author of 15 books, including one he graced us with: “Legends of the Slow Explosion-Eleven Modern Lives,” brilliant portraits of Rosa Parks… 1/2
October 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
We deeply mourn the loss of Baron Wormser, multi-genre literary master, Guggenheim Fellow and former Poet Laureate of Maine, author of 15 books, including one he graced us with: “Legends of the Slow Explosion-Eleven Modern Lives,” brilliant portraits of Rosa Parks… 1/2
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What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!
October 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!
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October 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Warm thanks to Alexis David, Jenny Grassl, KB Kinkel & Kristina Marie Darling for this critical symposium on Mycocosmic in Tupelo Quarterly. Inspiring reviewers to read about mushrooms while in the bathtub: life goal unlocked. @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Warm thanks to Alexis David, Jenny Grassl, KB Kinkel & Kristina Marie Darling for this critical symposium on Mycocosmic in Tupelo Quarterly. Inspiring reviewers to read about mushrooms while in the bathtub: life goal unlocked. @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...
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Thanks for an excellent issue, and we're especially delighted by @tiffanytroy.bsky.social's interview with James Shea and Dorothy Tse about translating "Moving a Stone," by Hong Kong poet Yam Gong.
October 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thanks for an excellent issue, and we're especially delighted by @tiffanytroy.bsky.social's interview with James Shea and Dorothy Tse about translating "Moving a Stone," by Hong Kong poet Yam Gong.
“Indifferent Cities, in inspiring the reader to consider these paradoxes, is anything but indifferent. On the contrary, it is poignant.” Review of Ángel García‘s Indifferent Cities on Compulsive Reader
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October 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“Indifferent Cities, in inspiring the reader to consider these paradoxes, is anything but indifferent. On the contrary, it is poignant.” Review of Ángel García‘s Indifferent Cities on Compulsive Reader
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Tupelo Quarterly issue 36 is out now!
Which means aside from incredible poetry, prose and art, submissions for TQ37 are now OPEN!
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Which means aside from incredible poetry, prose and art, submissions for TQ37 are now OPEN!
www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...
October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Tupelo Quarterly issue 36 is out now!
Which means aside from incredible poetry, prose and art, submissions for TQ37 are now OPEN!
www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...
Which means aside from incredible poetry, prose and art, submissions for TQ37 are now OPEN!
www.tupeloquarterly.com/tq36-table-o...
“Teresa Dzieglewicz’s debut… emerges from deep community with the youth- and Indigenous-led movement opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock Reservation.”
Review of Teresa Dzieglewicz‘s SOMETHING
SMALL OF HOW TO SEE A RIVER in
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Review of Teresa Dzieglewicz‘s SOMETHING
SMALL OF HOW TO SEE A RIVER in
rhinopoetry.org/reviews/tere...
September 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“Teresa Dzieglewicz’s debut… emerges from deep community with the youth- and Indigenous-led movement opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock Reservation.”
Review of Teresa Dzieglewicz‘s SOMETHING
SMALL OF HOW TO SEE A RIVER in
rhinopoetry.org/reviews/tere...
Review of Teresa Dzieglewicz‘s SOMETHING
SMALL OF HOW TO SEE A RIVER in
rhinopoetry.org/reviews/tere...
"riveting... rich, varied, and layered" - review of Lesley Wheeler's Mycocosmic on Action, Spectacle
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September 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"riveting... rich, varied, and layered" - review of Lesley Wheeler's Mycocosmic on Action, Spectacle
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Arts, books, words and freedom of expression are all under attack. Of course they are. Because silence is complicity, and authoritarians need complicity to function.
Share your experience in the open air and chronicle these times in the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project.
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Share your experience in the open air and chronicle these times in the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project.
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April 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Arts, books, words and freedom of expression are all under attack. Of course they are. Because silence is complicity, and authoritarians need complicity to function.
Share your experience in the open air and chronicle these times in the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project.
www.tupelopress.org/about-the-30...
Share your experience in the open air and chronicle these times in the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project.
www.tupelopress.org/about-the-30...
“a book of courage and sorrow, of introspection and challenges” - a review of Phantom Number, an Abecedarium for April by Spring Ulmer on Action, Spectacle
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Marina Burana - book review of Spring Ulmer — Action, Spectacle
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September 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“a book of courage and sorrow, of introspection and challenges” - a review of Phantom Number, an Abecedarium for April by Spring Ulmer on Action, Spectacle
www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
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Deadline Oct 31: The Helena Whitehill Book Award
Submit an unpublished, full or chapbook-length poetry manuscript or creative non-fiction manuscript. Win $1,000 & pub. Fee: $30.
https://www.tupelopress.org/helena-whitehill-book-award/
via @tupelopress.bsky.social
Submit an unpublished, full or chapbook-length poetry manuscript or creative non-fiction manuscript. Win $1,000 & pub. Fee: $30.
https://www.tupelopress.org/helena-whitehill-book-award/
via @tupelopress.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Deadline Oct 31: The Helena Whitehill Book Award
Submit an unpublished, full or chapbook-length poetry manuscript or creative non-fiction manuscript. Win $1,000 & pub. Fee: $30.
https://www.tupelopress.org/helena-whitehill-book-award/
via @tupelopress.bsky.social
Submit an unpublished, full or chapbook-length poetry manuscript or creative non-fiction manuscript. Win $1,000 & pub. Fee: $30.
https://www.tupelopress.org/helena-whitehill-book-award/
via @tupelopress.bsky.social
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A poem for the first day of autumn. From Good Bones by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social.
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/goodbonesBK
#poem #books #writing
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/goodbonesBK
#poem #books #writing
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A poem for the first day of autumn. From Good Bones by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social.
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/goodbonesBK
#poem #books #writing
Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/goodbonesBK
#poem #books #writing
Only three seats left for the September Online Manuscript Conference!
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September 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Only three seats left for the September Online Manuscript Conference!
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🚨 Just a FEW SPOTS LEFT for the October 30/30 project and ONE SPOT left in November! 🚨
Write a poem a day for 30 days while raising money for our nonprofit. Maybe you’ll be the 100th participant to go on to get a collection published!
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Write a poem a day for 30 days while raising money for our nonprofit. Maybe you’ll be the 100th participant to go on to get a collection published!
www.tupelopress.org/about-30-30-...
September 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🚨 Just a FEW SPOTS LEFT for the October 30/30 project and ONE SPOT left in November! 🚨
Write a poem a day for 30 days while raising money for our nonprofit. Maybe you’ll be the 100th participant to go on to get a collection published!
www.tupelopress.org/about-30-30-...
Write a poem a day for 30 days while raising money for our nonprofit. Maybe you’ll be the 100th participant to go on to get a collection published!
www.tupelopress.org/about-30-30-...