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July Open Submission Guidelines

Throughout July, Tupelo Press will hold open submissions for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages) and chapbook-length poetry collections (30-47 pages). Submissions are accepted from anyone writing in the English language (whether in the United States or abroad). 

Make sure that your cover page includes the title, your name and contact information, including address, phone number and email address. 

There is a reading fee of $25 for each manuscript submitted. Why a reading fee? We are an independent, nonprofit literary press. Reading fees help defray, but do not by any means cover, the significant cost of publishing the many books we select outside of our competitions. Multiple submissions are accepted, so long as each submission is accompanied by a separate $25 reading fee. Manuscripts that have been submitted during this open reading period (July 2010) may not be revised and submitted again unless they are accompanied by an additional $25 reading fee.

Online Submission

In 2010, Tupelo Press is accepting online manuscript submissions. Click here to submit electronically. The online submission system will be accepting poetry manuscripts between July 1 and July 31, 2010.

Online PayPal Payment

Click below to pay the reading fee for online or postal mail submissions: 

Submission via Postal Mail

We also accept manuscripts via postal mail. Please include the $25 reading fee, payable to Tupelo Press, or utilize our online PayPal option and enclose a copy of the receipt with your printed submission. 

You may also include a self-addressed postcard for acknowledgment of receipt of your manuscript and SASE for notification. Manuscripts will not be returned. You may include an acknowledgments page, listing previously published poems. 

Your manuscript must be postmarked between July 1 and July 31, 2010 and sent (along with a check or PayPal receipt) to: 

Open Submissions 
Tupelo Press 
PO Box 1767 
North Adams MA 01247