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February News


New Issue Alert

Image of the front cover of Studies in the Fantastic No. 14: Tales of the Fantastic.

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 Earth, published by the University of Tampa Press. His poems have appeared in PloughsharesAGNISouthwest ReviewBest New Poets 2015TriQuarterlyThe Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He has been awarded the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize, the Moth Poetry Prize, and the Bridport Poetry Prize. Together with his wife, the writer and artist Claire Åkebrand, and their two children, he lives in Provo, Utah, and teaches at Brigham Young University.


New Submission Opportunity

Pith & Pomme

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, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things,” and New York University Press’s Avidly Reads, “short books about how culture makes us feel.” The success of such series indicates a demand for the short form academic work, but we wish to open the field, calling for submissions beyond these themes.

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 a form on its own, often being attached to short-story collections. Our new series, Pomme, seeks to fill that void in the literary landscape.


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