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Literary non-profit. Publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers since 1999.
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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Jalousie by Allyson Paty @tupelopress.bsky.social
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KB Kinkel review of MYCOCOSMIC
Alexis David review of Mycocosmic
Jenny Grassl review of Mycocosmic
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...
06.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Thanks 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.
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Compulsive Reader Reviews of books by some of the hottest writers working today, exclusive author interviews, literary news and criticism. BOOK REVIEWS, POETRY REVIEWS En Busca del Tiempo Perdido, a review of Indifferent Cities by Ángel García
A purple flower with a faint face in the middle: the cover of Indifferent Cities by Ángel García
“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!
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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Action, Spectacle Laurel Kallen "riveting... rich, varied, and layered" - review of Lesley Wheeler's Mycocosmic Summer 2025 | Prose Mycocosmic, by Lesley Wheeler. (Tupelo Press). 2025
"riveting... rich, varied, and layered" - review of Lesley Wheeler's Mycocosmic on Action, Spectacle
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When government defunds the humanities, it is up to all of us to keep small, independent voices alive. Write a poem a day with us. Refuse to be silenced with us. Keep the humanities alive, shoulder to shoulder, word by word. Chronicle these times in the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project.
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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“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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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
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
Only three seats left for the September Online Manuscript Conference!
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30/30 Project Benefits: • A "virtual" residency for a month • Weekly mini-craft talks • International visibility for you and your work • Thirty new drafts for your writing folder • Learn to build your readership • Explore hybrid and experimental forms • Stretch your literary "muscles" • Write with support and companionship • Daily supportive emails • International visibility for you and your work • Support through the process
🚨 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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Lovely to see Indifferent Cities by Ángel
García and The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez by Iliana Rocha featured on @clmporg.bsky.social’s Reading List for Hispanic Heritage Month 2025!
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A review of Indifferent Cities, by Ángel García in Action, Spectacle with the caption “Important and essential” - a review of Indifferent Cities, by Ángel García
“Important and essential” - a review of Indifferent Cities, by Ángel García
www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-...
Just had to write about Belly in my 30-30 fundraiser poem today for @tupelopress.bsky.social Title is “When was the summer I turned pretty?” #thesummeriturnedpretty
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Justin Gardiner’s Small Altars is “poignant, vulnerably authentic, and subtly humorous” says The Los Angeles Review
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From @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's book, Good Bones.
#poem #books #writing
The Helena Whitehill Book Award
Now open to poetry manuscripts of any length, and also to creative nonfiction, including essays, memoirs, and hybrid work.
Deadline: October 31st
Cash Prize: $1,000
Judge: Jane Wong
tupelopress.submittable.com/submit
Day 8 of @tupelopress.bsky.social’s 30/30 fundraiser. Right—a new poem posted each day. I’ve written about Thai Soaps, Bob Ross, Fanny Price, Missionaries, golf, ex profs, Luigi Mangione, & Titanic.
Read: www.tupelopress.org/30-30-projec...
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Cover of THE VITAL SYSTEM by CM Burroughs (2012) Tupelo Press Cover art a photo by Elaine Duigenan entitled "Equus Caballus III" Black and white beautiful abstracted juxtapositions of fabric, glass, a window and mysterious night.
Excerpt from "THINK AWAY THE BLOOD" the tumble of presence had I turned sooner had I bone kissing my precise destination asked the correct question the undercarriage your grave in Virginia taste of blood in my throat absence visible before it goes under was it your face my precise pain driving as into sludge then breaking in the earth'sface against the head of a doe as into sludge then breaking please
ON IMPACT We watched the bird begin -- at the veranda's edge and taking off with mission into the French/doors five feet ahead. A red bird reddening . Sexed in vermeil. Damaged. Days, this continued -- / you saw it. The bird dying for the bird: how to love the self. A week at least, at last. The elongated click/ of its mouth a tension, repetition. The work of watching its attempts to die. / The words please and / don't mined from every throat in that house. As much as we were witnesses, we did not see its beak/ gag, did not see it die. But gently noticed no refrain, no rhythm at the glass -- its body or betrothal/ gone.
For Day22 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social CM Burroughs 1st collection (2012) from @tupelopress.bsky.social The Vital System correlates mechanisms of body presence & self/other explorations w/a highly personal syntax experimental prosody /new forms performative expressions on identity, sex & grieving.
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Out now: Force Drift: An Essay in the Epic
Jeffrey Pethybridge
In his extraordinary second collection, poet Jeffrey Pethybridge confronts the ethical disaster of the torture program that the United States used to advance the so-called global war on terror.
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Accepting registrations for the September Online Manuscript Conference!
September 26th – 29th
Four days of real-world ideas and suggestions to level up your poetry manuscript. Over 95 of our conference alumni have had their books taken post-conference!
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Los Angeles Review of Books RB Ungatherable Being Martha Ronk thinks about Kristen Case's "Daphne." By Martha Ronk • September 2, 2025
Daphne by Kristen Case was just called “stunning” by @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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Substack post by Junot Diaz. A picture of the cover of the book Cyborg Fever by Laurie Sheck with the caption “Laurie Sheck was my professor at Rutgers and her novel is ridiculously brilliant, a speculative masterpiece.”
“ridiculously brilliant, a speculative masterpiece”
Amazing words from Junot Diaz on Laurie Sheck’s Cyborg Fever. Check out Junot’s Substack!
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Huge congrats to Co-Director and Series Co-Editor, Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social for being selected by Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social for the Tupelo Berkshire Prize! @tupelopress.bsky.social
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Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that INFINITE SCROLL // INFINITE EYE by Martin Rock of Solana Beach, California is the winner of the 2025 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry.
Congratulations @infinite-scroll.bsky.social
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THE NEW SCHOOL The Art of Crafting a Novel: In Conversation with Laurie Sheck The cover of the book CYBORG FEVER by LAURIE SHECK
THE NEV SCHOOL Q E Laurie Sheck's latest novel, Cyborg Fever (Tupelo Press, 2025), is a lyrical exploration of loneliness, identity, and the self in an age of hyper-exposure to technology and information. Divided into three parts, the novel follows an orphaned boy, Erwin, who, in a fever-dream state of consciousness, witnesses another man, Funes, and his compulsive web searches as he attempts to escape his own reality. The second part shifts to a cyborg who tells Erwin the story of his escape from a lab and the life he once lived inside it. Blending fictional narrative with scientific fact and archival fragments, Cyborg Fever reveals how the characters' identities are shaped-and at times destabilized-by their interactions with knowledge. A powerful and formally innovative novel, it questions how we perceive truth, memory, and selfhood in a technologized world. Sheck sat down with Camilla Marchese Gonzalez to share the writing process and inspiration behind her latest novel.
The Art of Crafting a Novel: In Conversation with Laurie Sheck. Fabulous interview with CYBORG FEVER author Laurie Sheck on @thenewschool.bsky.social blog
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The Art of Crafting a Novel: In Conversation with Laurie Sheck. Fabulous interview with CYBORG FEVER author Laurie Sheck on the The New School blog
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