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.

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...

Our spring season of books is here!

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...

"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...

Amazing to see No featured here - thanks so much @wwborders.bsky.social and @tobiascarroll.bsky.social!

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...

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...

from Tamiami Trail, publishing in just a few weeks ✨ link: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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...

It's that time of year again! Submissions are open for poetry and fiction manuscripts. ➡️ Learn more: bit.ly/cmupress

Our friends at @upittpress.bsky.social are hosting a very cool event and it's less than a month away! See you there ✨

No notes* *says our editorial director, who's from over there

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!

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...

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!

"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...

It's publication day for @kathdriskell.bsky.social, Jonathan Aaron, Virginia Conchan, Michael McGriff, and Claudia Barnett!

We're so excited about this one!

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...)

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...)

Just ten more days to enter our literary translation and new play contests! www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

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...

"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...

Our open submission period (for new plays and literary translation) is now live! Read more about it: www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Our open submission period (for new plays and literary translation) is now live! Read more about it: www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Dzvinia Orlowsky's Those Absences Now Closest named a Most Brilliant Book of 2024! www.brilliant-books.net/most-brillia...

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...

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?

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...

In this week's New Yorker: a new #poem by Assistant Professor of English Camille Rankine.

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...

Check out @andimuse.bsky.social's new book and our other fall releases at cmu.edu/universitypress

A gift for the naughty *and* the nice!