Carnegie Mellon University Press

Introducing our Fall 2025 titles, a full slate of poetry, fiction, and even our first academic title 🍁

Learn more about them here: www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

from Tamiami Trail, publishing in just a few weeks ✨

link: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

My take on Jonathan Aaron’s wonderful “Just About Anything” @cmupress.bsky.social in @ronslate.bsky.social’s “On the Seawall”: “Aaron’s poetry, for the length of a few lines, a handful of pages, persuades us that things or people that are gone aren’t, in fact, lost.” www.ronslate.com/on-just-abou...

It's that time of year again! Submissions are open for poetry and fiction manuscripts.

➡️ Learn more: bit.ly/cmupress

Our friends at @upittpress.bsky.social are hosting a very cool event and it's less than a month away!

See you there ✨

No notes*

*says our editorial director, who's from over there

To Be Marquette In this compelling campus novel, a college freshman exposes hidden secrets as she fights for environmental justice in Marquette. Arriving in Marquette for her freshman year at Northern Michigan Univer...

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“Timelessness of Trestles: An Appreciation of Sharon Dilworth’s Novel, ‘To Be Marquette’” “I was miles away from Marquette.” — Sharon Dilworth There is a timelessness to Sharon Dilworth’s novel “To Be Marquette.” Her characters probably resemble many of us who questioned the Cold War and t...

CMUP author + fiction editor Sharon Dilworth was featured in the local Marquette, MI paper for her novel, To Be Marquette, which we published in Spring 2024 🏞

A wonderful (and well-deserved) article. Congrats Sharon!

The second, by Hollywood director, producer, and writer (and @cmu.edu alum) John Wells, is "The Value of Narrative Storytelling in Polarized Times" dx.doi.org/10.1184/R1/2...

We are proud to have published two distinguished recent @cmu.edu lectures under our Tartan Editions imprint.

The first is "With Eyes No Longer Blind: Vision and Visibility in Engineering" by Dr Gilda Barabino, 2024 recipient of the Dickson Prize in Science: dx.doi.org/10.1184/R1/2...

Sulky Achilles That's him over there— alone, on his haunches next to the campfire, playing with a stick, stirring sparks into the hateful sky. "Fuck Agamemnon," he mutters, relicking his paw. He's withdrawn and mopey, grumpy over a girl— he stole her first, gods dammit. Behind him, his buddies, faces fear filled and green, clank swords with the enemy on the wine-colored fields of Troy. He shrugs. He's just not feeling the fury, though wrath has always been his gift, his thing. And he'll unfurl it without mercy on Hector, and Andromache, and Priam, and so on, he will, but that's later. Right now, he's promising himself, he'll never be dumb enough to drop his armor again. Go big or go home, amirite?

Here's one of our favorites from her latest collection. This is "Sulky Achilles" from Goat-Footed Gods.
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Did you hear that @kathdriskell.bsky.social, one of our fantastic Spring 25 poets, has been named Kentucky's poet laureate? Congratulations, Kathleen—so well deserved!

The Scientist’s Dilemma “If I want people to listen, I need a Y chromosome,” says Barbara in Claudia Barnett’s short play I Knew She Was Right. Inspired by geneticist Barbara Mc…

"Each piece here has its particular power and poignancy," writes Linda Parsons of Claudia Barnett's volume of six one-act plays about women in science. "And, most importantly, they leave you hungry for more." chapter16.org/the-scientis...

It's publication day for @kathdriskell.bsky.social, Jonathan Aaron, Virginia Conchan, Michael McGriff, and Claudia Barnett!

We're so excited about this one!

So pleased to see the brilliant @kathdriskell.bsky.social's Goat-Footed Gods on this list (Out now! Get your copy at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...)

The Poetry of Grief | Los Angeles Review of Books Eileen G’Sell reviews two new poetry collections, Virginia Konchan’s “Requiem” and Cass Donish’s “Your Dazzling Death.”

What a lovely @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social review of Virginia Konchan's Requiem lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
(It's out now!) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...)

paging @cmupress-ca.bsky.social !!

Just ten more days to enter our literary translation and new play contests! www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Award-winning poet to deliver reading Thursday at CMU - The Fayette Advertiser Central Methodist University will welcome American poet Allison Joseph for a reading on Thursday, February 20. A question and answer session will take place following the reading, which begins at &he...

Hey, look at that! A CMU Press alum reading at another CMU! (Not you, @cmichpress.bsky.social!) It's beginning to feel very Spiderman in here. www.fayettenewspapers.com/stories/awar...

Just about Anything: New and Selected Poems New and Selected Poems

"Poised at the threshold of surprise, Aaron's poems relax into a kind of domestic surrealism that's both insightful and humorous, yet immediately recognizable, "asking / questions no one can answer / but asking anyway."" Fred Muratori in Library Journal

Coming March 22
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Our open submission period (for new plays and literary translation) is now live! Read more about it:

www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Our open submission period (for new plays and literary translation) is now live! Read more about it:

www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Dzvinia Orlowsky's Those Absences Now Closest named a Most Brilliant Book of 2024! www.brilliant-books.net/most-brillia...

We are really excited to announce that Carnegie Mellon University Press is holding two concurrent literary contests in 2025: a Literary Translation Contest and a New Play Contest. Both will be accepting submissions from January 21 to February 28, 2025. Find out more: www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Hey, fellow #Pittsburgh lovers of words—think we can convince @pghdistrict8.bsky.social, @pghdistrict5.bsky.social and others on city council to take inspiration from
the Scots and name our plows?

Book Review | 31 Outstanding Poetry Books from 2024: Alcalá to Zarin Here are 31 single author volumes of poetry that our reviewer recommends.

Delighted to see one of our fall releases, @andimuse.bsky.social’s Museum of
the Soon to
Depart, on this end-of-year list! www.independent.com/2024/12/19/b...

In this week's New Yorker: a new #poem by Assistant Professor of English Camille Rankine.

Dilworth Explores Coming-of-Age Themes in To Be Marquette - Pittsburgh Quarterly Set mainly in the 1970s, Sharon Dilworth’s recent book, To Be Marquette, sometimes makes small moments feel symbolic by utilizing music from the era — think Bob Dylan and Peter Frampton — to help esta...

We love a good campus novel -- so much, in fact, that we published one this fall! Here's a new Pittsburgh Quarterly piece about Sharon Dilworth's To Be Marquette.

pittsburghquarterly.com/articles/dil...

Check out @andimuse.bsky.social's new book and our other fall releases at cmu.edu/universitypress