Joel Lee, an author and current writing student at The University of Tampa, conducted an interview with Lorraine Monteagut, author of the Waterman Fund Essay Winner, “The Wild Self: What Is Wild to One is Home to Another,” (Appalachia: Vol. 72: No. 1, Article 15) and the book Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color (Chicago Review Press, 2021). Monteagut… Continue reading The University of Tampa Press Interviews: A Conversation with Lorraine Monteagut
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Forthcoming June 2023: Fool in a Blue House by Katherine Gaffney
Available for preorder now! Reviews “Katherine Gaffney’s Fool in a Blue House swings with honesty between the ideal life imagined in a model kitchen and the more true place where we find ourselves. Dwelling in the space where these two worlds intersect, Gaffney’s poems masterfully capture “a life / of waiting and counting” though they ultimately arrive at… Continue reading Forthcoming June 2023: Fool in a Blue House by Katherine Gaffney
April 2023 News
New Release Alert! The Inextinguishable, Poems by Michael Lavers “The Inextinguishable is a book of the biggest, oldest, questions: Why are we here? What are we for? What is enough? To make the old resonate in a way that is bruising, clarifying, stunning—this is poetry’s greatest task. And Michael Lavers seems made for it, writing poems that… Continue reading April 2023 News
University of Tampa Press Interviews: A Conversation with Katherine Gaffney
By: Daleyna Abril Katherine Gaffney is the recipient of the 2022 Tampa Review Prize for her collection of poems, Fool in a Blue House, forthcoming in 2023. The following interview was conducted via email. DALEYNA ABRIL: The Tampa Review judges described Fool in a Blue House as “much a collection of poems as it is a process of intimate discovery—intimacy in relation… Continue reading University of Tampa Press Interviews: A Conversation with Katherine Gaffney
Forthcoming April 2023: The Inextinguishable, poems by Michael Lavers
“I’d have thought these the lost poems of Alyosha Karamazov, come to light when so much poetry seems to have been written by Ivan. The relentless lovingness of Michael Lavers’ poems at first tempted me to draw back, as an implicit judgement on whatever in me is unloving or petty or merely clever. But I couldn’t… Continue reading Forthcoming April 2023: The Inextinguishable, poems by Michael Lavers
Announcing the UT Press Newsletter
February News New Issue Alert Tales of the Fantastic, a special issue of Studies in the Fantastic will be released in April 2023. This issue is features short stories and interviews with Daryl Gregory and Paul Tremblay. Available for preorder now! Forthcoming in April 2023 The Inextinguishable, poems by Michael Lavers Michael Lavers is the author of After… Continue reading Announcing the UT Press Newsletter
The University of Tampa Press Announces Pith: A Series of Short Academic Books
What the novella is to fiction, the short book is to academic publishing. Increasingly, academic publishers are thinking small. We have seen academic presses launch book series like University of Minnesota Press’s Forerunners, “Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead,” Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons, “a series of concise, collectable,… Continue reading The University of Tampa Press Announces Pith: A Series of Short Academic Books
The University of Tampa Press Announces Pomme: A Novella Series
The University of Tampa Press is committed to offering publication opportunities for genres and modes of writing that have been overlooked in traditional publishing. Many university presses have imprints and series dedicated to publishing long-form works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as collections of poetry, but the novella continues to be passed over as… Continue reading The University of Tampa Press Announces Pomme: A Novella Series
University of Tampa Press Interviews: A Conversation with Paul Tremblay
Our editorial board member and regular contributor Christina Connor sat down (virtually!) for an interview with Paul Tremblay (author of A Head Full of Ghosts, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, and The Cabin at the End of the World, now a major motion picture soon to be released, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, called Knock at the Cabin). They discussed… Continue reading University of Tampa Press Interviews: A Conversation with Paul Tremblay
University of Tampa Press Interviews: A Conversation with Daryl Gregory
Our editorial board member and regular contributor Christina Connor sat down (virtually!) with Daryl Gregory (author of Spoonbenders, Raising Stony MayHall, Pandemonium, We Are All Completely Fine) for an interview on his writing practice and tips for new writers. The full interview will be published in our forthcoming special issue devoted to fiction, “Tales of… Continue reading University of Tampa Press Interviews: A Conversation with Daryl Gregory