About 1 — Tyler Hurula

Publications

Awards and Honorable Mentions:

2025 Best of the Net nomination for my poem “Ars Poetica From My Grandparents’ Dinner Table” - nominated by Fiery Scribe Review

Finalist for the 2024 Parallel Award for Poetry for my poem “the one about the girl and the closet” through Bellingham Review

2024 Jack McCarthy Poetry Book Prize contest finalist with an honorable mention for my manuscript “Too Pretty for Plain Coffee” through Write Bloody Publishing"

2024 Best of the Net nomination for my poem “I AM TOO MUCH FOR MOST” - nominated by Gnashing Teeth Publishing

2024 Pushcart Prize nomination for my poem “Glass Angel Obituary” (after Victoria Chang) - nominated by Moss Puppy Magazine

Finalist for the Joy Bale Boone Poetry prize for my poem “Cannibal, or My Boyfriend Broke Up with Me Before I Finished Writing this Poem” - through The Heartland Review

Selected Publications:

“Albert Ellis and I Explore His Theories on Catastrophic Thinking,” Twenty Bellows, April 2024

“I’ve Gotten Good at Writing Breakup Poems,” Twenty Bellows, April 2024

“My Dating Situation Has Gotten So Disappointing that My Wife is Trying to Give Me Dating Advice,” Twenty Bellows, April 2024

“The Ugly, the Snot, and the Woman,” Gnashing Teeth Publishing, April 2024

“Ars Poetica From My Grandparents’ Dinner Table,” Fiery Scribe Review, April 2024

“Another Period Poem” & “What’s Left,” South Broadway Ghost Society Press, June 2023

“I’d Like to Bare My Testimony” & “Humane,” Moss Puppy Magazine, May 2023

“Polyamory from the Perspective of an Anniversary Card,” Quartz Literary, March 2023

“Holy Me,” Resurrection Mag, December 2022

“If I Hadn’t Left (the Mormon Church),” Olney Magazine, October 2022

“Hands,” Boats Against the Current, October 2022