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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.



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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  With that in mind, submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems of any style or sensibility.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!  

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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  Submissions should be previously unpublished and may contain only one prose work, double-spaced, no more than fifteen pages.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!  

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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.  

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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! 

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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!

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.  

This category may be used to submit poetry that has been invited by our editors for possible inclusion in our "Editors' Selections" section.

If you have been encouraged to submit to our general poetry category, please send your work using the appropriate submission link, and be sure mention the name of the referring editor in your cover letter.  

As always, we look forward to reading your submission!

This category may be used to submit prose that has been invited by our editors for possible inclusion in our "Editors' Selections" section. 


If you have been encouraged to submit to our general prose category, please send your work using the appropriate submission link, and be sure mention the name of the referring editor in your cover letter.  


As always, we look forward to reading your submission!

We are looking for reviews of books that change the way we think about language, literary tradition, and inherited forms of writing, books that are deserving of a wider audience and a more varied response from the literary community at large. Submit reviews, between 900 and 1,200 words in length, as .doc, .docx or .rtf files. Include a bio in the space provided for cover letters. 
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