Thank you for visiting our submissions portal. Tupelo Quarterly accepts submissions of
poetry, fiction, nonfiction, lyric essay, hybrid work and visual art during
open reading periods. Please read the guidelines for each category carefully. If no categories appear, that means the reading period is closed. Simultaneous submissions are welcome as long as you notify us immediately at the contactTQ@tupelopress.org if the work is placed elsewhere. Submissions may not be changed after entry. We do not accept previously published material.
Tupelo Quarterly seeks to cultivate a diverse and expansive vision of what poetry can be. With that in mind, submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems of any style or sensibility. Simultaneous submissions are welcome as long as you notify us immediately at contactTQ (at) tupelopress (dot) org if a poem is placed elsewhere. Attach all poems in your submission as a single document in .doc, .docx or .pdf form.
We look forward to reading your work!
Tupelo Quarterly is currently accepting submissions of creative nonfiction, lyric essays, short stories, hybrid texts, flash fiction, and excerpts of longer prose manuscripts. Send us work that surprises us, that expands our sense of what is possible within a literary text. Submissions should be previously unpublished and may contain only one prose work, double-spaced, no more than fifteen pages. Simultaneous submissions are welcome as long as you notify us immediately at contactTQ (at) tupelopress (dot) org if the piece is placed elsewhere.
We look forward to reading your work!
Use this category to submit works of translation. We prefer longer excerpts, ranging from approximately 5-10 poems, or for prose works, up to 20 pages. Whenever possible, please include the original language piece along with your translation submission.
Tupelo Quarterly seeks to cultivate dialogue between the literary arts and the fine arts. With that in mind, we would love to consider text and image projects, collaborations between writers and artists, and other works that exist at the boundaries of genres and disciplines. Please send up to 15 pages of cross-disciplinary material in PDF, .doc, or .docx format.
As always, we look forward to reading your work!
Submit up to 5 images, videos or mixed media works. If you are sending images, please send them in a small format for initial review (.jpg, etc.). If we need a larger file size or format for best reproduction, we will ask for that at a later date.
We look forward to seeing your work!
Close Encounters in the More-than-Human World with Mary Newell
March 1st, 1-3pm EST via Zoom
This workshop will introduce you to the vibrant field of ecopoetics: a poetry practice that engages with the lively life-worlds of plants and other animals, as well as incorporating issues of climate change and environmental justice. We will close-read a few poems by contemporary writers including Brenda Hillman, Ed Roberson, and Forrest Gander as a springboard in generating and workshopping your own poems. We will explore elements of poetics such as voice, variations in meter to represent varied life forms or energies, and the range of perspectives from close encounters to news of distant disasters.
Meet Your Instructor
Mary Newell authored the poetry chapbooks TILT/ HOVER/ VEER (Codhill Press) and Re-SURGE (Trainwreck Press, now from the author), poems in numerous journals and anthologies, and essays including “When Poetry Rivers” (Interim journal 38.3). Her poetry book, ENTWINE, is forthcoming from BlazeVox Press. She is co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary and the Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics.
Newell (MA Columbia, BA Berkeley) received a doctorate from Fordham University with a focus on environment and embodiment in contemporary women’s writing. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Connecticut, Stamford and intermittent online classes.
Tupelo Quarterly is thrilled to announce the launch of a series of zoom-based workshops, which will focus on topics related to writing and professional development. We are currently accepting proposals for workshops in the following areas:
Poetry
Close Reading in All Genres
Hybrid Texts
Multimedia Texts
Poetry Films, Video Poems, & Cinepoetry
Collaborative Texts
Cross-Genre Projects
All instructors will be compensated with a percentage of the proceeds from their workshop. To submit, please include a current C.V. and a 250-word workshop description as a PDF or Word Doc.