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Publishing books since 1972, with a particular focus on poetry and literature. Here's what we're up to: linktr.ee/cmupress

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We're open for submissions! This time around, we're looking for poetry, fiction, and — for the first time — creative nonfiction. ➡️ Learn more: cmupress.submittable.com/submit
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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
PREPOSITION reviews KONBIT (@cmupress.bsky.social, 2026) by @sonytonaime.bsky.social. "Relatively unheralded in contemporary poetry, Ton-Aime is an important new interlocutor in a movement that I have elsewhere described as a 'new historical poetics.'" www.prepositionmag.com/ton-aime-kon...
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BOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Writer and director of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures Sony Ton-Aime discusses his poetry collection, “Konbit” ( @cmupress.bsky.social, 2026), that reimagines the communal solidarity of the Haitian revolution with writer Z. L. Nickels.
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BOMB Magazine | Sony Ton-Aime by Z. L. Nickels
A debut poetry collection that reimagines the communal solidarity of the Haitian revolution.
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We're thrilled to announce the first ever winner of the Tayur Poetry Prize: Hussain Ahmed! ➡️ Learn more about Ahmed and Sing, Sky, his award-winning collection, here: www.cmu.edu/university-p...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Our spring season of books is here!
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Our winter open reading period for literary translations and new plays runs through Jan 12. We welcome volumes of poetry, collections of short fiction, and completed novels in translation and submissions of finished full-length plays (60-120 min. running time). www.cmu.edu/universitypr...
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Submission Guidelines
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"This bilingual edition preserves Vilariño’s rhythmic precision and existential intensity, giving readers a rare glimpse into a body of work that continues to resonate far beyond its origins." No in @literaryhub.bsky.social's new round-up of UP translations ❤️ lithub.com/reading-arou...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Amazing to see No featured here - thanks so much @wwborders.bsky.social and @tobiascarroll.bsky.social!
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We're pleased to announce the creation of two new CMUP poetry prizes, made possible by the generosity of @teppercmu.bsky.social professor Sridhar R. Tayur! Learn more: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
from Tamiami Trail, publishing in just a few weeks ✨ link: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Tamiami Trail
Eighteen unforgettable stories of women navigating the beauty and chaos of Miami. The Tamiami Trail cuts through the contradictions of Miami: a city shaped by swamps and skyscrapers, violence and desi...
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Christoph Irmscher @chrisirmscher.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It's that time of year again! Submissions are open for poetry and fiction manuscripts. ➡️ Learn more: bit.ly/cmupress
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Our friends at @upittpress.bsky.social are hosting a very cool event and it's less than a month away! See you there ✨
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
No notes* *says our editorial director, who's from over there
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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!
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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...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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...
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With Eyes No Longer Blind: Vision and Visibility in Engineering
This lecture was first presented on February 19, 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, as part of the University Lecture Series, by Dr. Gilda A. Barabino, recipient of the 2024 Dickson P...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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!
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"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...
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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…
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It's publication day for @kathdriskell.bsky.social, Jonathan Aaron, Virginia Conchan, Michael McGriff, and Claudia Barnett!
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We're so excited about this one!
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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...)
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Goat-Footed Gods
Poems that center on the sinister American cryptid, the Goatman of Pope Lick. In her sixth collection Goat-Footed Gods, award-winning poet, essayist, and teacher Kathleen Driskell seeks to rehabilitat...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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...)
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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.”
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Just ten more days to enter our literary translation and new play contests! www.cmu.edu/universitypr...
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Calls and Contests - Carnegie Mellon University Press - Carnegie Mellon University
Submit your work now! Carnegie Mellon University Press announces two concurrent literary contests for 2025: a Literary Translation Contest and a New Play Contest, both accepting submissions from Janua...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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...
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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...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"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 bookshop.org/p/books/just...
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Just about Anything: New and Selected Poems
New and Selected Poems
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Our open submission period (for new plays and literary translation) is now live! Read more about it: www.cmu.edu/universitypr...
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Calls and Contests - Carnegie Mellon University Press - Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University Press announces two concurrent literary contests for 2025: a Literary Translation Contest and a New Play Contest, both accepting submissions from January 21 to February 28, ...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Our open submission period (for new plays and literary translation) is now live! Read more about it: www.cmu.edu/universitypr...
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Calls and Contests - Carnegie Mellon University Press - Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University Press announces two concurrent literary contests for 2025: a Literary Translation Contest and a New Play Contest, both accepting submissions from January 21 to February 28, ...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Dzvinia Orlowsky's Those Absences Now Closest named a Most Brilliant Book of 2024! www.brilliant-books.net/most-brillia...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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...
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Open Contests - Carnegie Mellon University Press - Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University Press announces two concurrent literary contests for 2025: a Literary Translation Contest and a New Play Contest, both accepting submissions from January 21 to February 28, ...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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?
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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...
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Book Review | 31 Outstanding Poetry Books from 2024: Alcalá to Zarin
Here are 31 single author volumes of poetry that our reviewer recommends.
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Carnegie Mellon University Department of English @cmuenglish.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In this week's New Yorker: a new #poem by Assistant Professor of English Camille Rankine.
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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...
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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...
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Check out @andimuse.bsky.social's new book and our other fall releases at cmu.edu/universitypress
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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A gift for the naughty *and* the nice!
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