Fresh off the press 📚✨

Explore fresh and recent releases from the University of Tampa Press, featuring poetry, fiction, critique, and the extraordinary. Which will you choose first?

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Step into the whimsical world of The Elf Poem ✨

Written by Florida’s Poet Laureate Peter Meinke and illustrated by Jeanne Clark Meinke, this delightful book invites readers of all ages to discover the joy of writing and reading poems.

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📚 Studies in the Fantastic #19 is here!
This latest issue of the journal “devoted to the speculative, fantastic, and weird in literature and other arts” explores new frontiers of imagination and scholarship. Don’t miss it! ✨🖋️

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🩸 Something powerful is coming...
The Voice of Blood arrives this October 31, 2025 from University of Tampa Press.

In today’s post, learn more about this unforgettable work — and meet the author and translators behind it.

📖 Pre-order today!

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🩸 Sneak peek alert! Catch a glimpse of an excerpt from The Voice of Blood featured in Studies in the Fantastic #18! 👉 Swipe to uncover what awaits within…

Now available for pre-order!

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Zoodikers: A Bestiary is already turning heads — and it hasn’t even hit shelves yet! 💥 With early praise from many literary voices, this debut is a wild ride through language, myth, and creaturely imagination.

📖 Official release: September 8, 2025
🛒 Now available for pre-order

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#ThrowbackThursday to "The Last Rites Never Came" by David M. Delo. This book "presents a vivid picture of the scope of problems and issues that a successful university president must address".

Grab your copy now!

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Richard Chess’s Tekiah explores the weight and clarity of memory, faith, and history—bringing lyric beauty to the complexities of contemporary life. As Alan Shapiro writes, it’s a book that will “amaze, challenge, and console.”

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Take a closer look at What the Body Knows by Lance Larsen and discover the depth of his poetry. This lyrical collection reflects on memory, longing, and the quiet beauty woven into everyday life.

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