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General Guidelines:

Tupelo Quarterly accepts poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual and mixed-media art.

How to send work

All submissions must come through our submission email account: submissions@tupeloquarterly.com. We do not accept any hardcopy submissions. Please include your name and the submission opportunity for which you’d like to be considered in the subject line of your email. For example: Johnny Appleseed/Prose Open Prize Submission. Simultaneous submissions are welcome as long as you notify us immediately in the original email thread if the work is placed elsewhere. Submissions may not be changed after entry. We do not accept previously published material.

Notifications

We will respond to all submissions after the October 31st submission deadline. Beyond these notifications, kindly refrain from requesting an individual response to confirm receipt of your submission or status in a contest. Our turnaround for submissions is approximately three months for any given issue of the journal.

Ethical Guidelines

Tupelo Quarterly endorses and abides by the Ethical Guidelines of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), which can be reviewed here.

Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Content:

We generally do not accept writing or translations generated with AI software because Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly are venues for intentional and thoughtful human creativity. If your work quotes lines generated by AI software (for example, with a reference to another text or published work), you must clearly acknowledge any intellectual borrowing. We understand and appreciate that some interesting creative work is being done that explores and exploits these technologies, but we will only consider such work if it explicitly acknowledges the means by which it was generated.

Acceptances

If Tupelo Quarterly publishes your work, we ask for 1st serial rights and acknowledgement if the work later appears elsewhere. We also ask to retain the option to include the work in a print anthology, The Best of Tupelo Quarterly, if the editors select it for the book. Authors/artists retain copyright.

Reviews:

Each month, Tupelo Quarterly will update its Reviews page with criticism that explores compelling, innovative and diverse works of new poetry, fiction and nonfiction. If you would like to submit a review, please email submissions@tupeloquarterly.com.

General Contest Guidelines:

Tupelo Quarterly invites submissions every year for our Poetry Open Prize, Prose Open Prize, Prize for Cross-Disciplinary Work, and Prize for Innovation in Scholarly Writing. Tupelo Quarterly‘s editors seek to cultivate a diverse and expansive vision of what literature can be. With that in mind, our contests are open to all forms and styles of writing. Please submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems of any sensibility, up to 20 pages of prose, or up to five cross-disciplinary pieces.

Finalists and Semifinalists will be selected by Tupelo Quarterly‘s editorial team, and all work will be considered for publication. Simultaneous submissions are welcome as long as you notify us immediately if a poem is placed elsewhere. Attach all poems in your submission as a single document in .doc, .docx or .pdf form. Vimeo and Youtube links are preferred for film and multimedia works.

The winners will each receive a cash prize of $250.

Thank you for your participation and your support of Tupelo Quarterly.

We look forward to reading your work!