Tucker’s first collection of stories, MAYBE THIS IS WHAT I DESERVE, will be released in June 2023 through Split/Lip Press. You can read some of his work below.

SELECTED WRITING:

Groceries, at Moon City Review (July 2022) (print only)
The Rumpelstiltskin Understudies (play), at BOOTH (May 2022)
Mr. Boggins and Every Good Boy Does Fine at The Journal (April 2022)
Small Talk, at HAD (February 2022)
My Good Omens Keep Eating Each Other, at Adroit Journal (August 2021)
The Fable of Algorithm Father, at The Forge (July 2021)
Down the Tunnel, Up the Slide, at HAD (May 2021)
Another Story, at elsewhere (May 2021)
Three Shorts, at Wigleaf (April 2021)
Gavin and Merle Are Engaged in a Turf War, at Fractured Lit (April 2021)
THIRD PLACE, Fractured Micro Fiction Prize
Tick’s Hair House, Catfish Wishing Well, Midge woke to discover she’d become a lightning bug at Passages North (February 2021)
Three Shorts, at Threadcount (November 2020)
NOMINATED for Best Microfiction 2021 Anthology
In Sickness And In, at Sporklet (October 2020)
Mother’s Blessing, at HAD (September 2020)
The Toddlers Are Playing Airport Again, at X-R-A-Y (July 2020)
The Street Performer, at Tiny Molecules (June 2020)
NOMINATED for Best of the Net 2020
Togethering, at Pithead Chapel (June 2020)
The Hollister Store, at Pidgeonholes (February 2020)
Two Stories, at Sundog Lit (February 2020)
NOMINATED for Best Small Fictions 2021
LONGLISTED for Wigleaf Top 50 2021
The Bog-Ridden Boy, at Longleaf Review (October 2019)
Toddy’s Got Lice Again, at Cheap Pop (September 2019)
SELECTED for Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology
LONGLISTED for Wigleaf Top 50 2020
My Party Trick, at Cutbank Online (May 2019)
Fable of the Everyman, at Hobart (March 2019)
What Wasn’t Swallowed Was Exhaled, at Smokelong Quarterly (January 2019)
The Contract, at Whiskeypaper (September 2017)

REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS:

Tucker Leighty-Phillips Interviews Joseph Scapellato, at Hayden’s Ferry Review (August 2019)

Tucker Leighty-Phillips Interviews Hanif Abdurraqib, at Hayden’s Ferry Review (June 2019)

Tucker Leighty-Phillips Interviews Ursula Vernon, at Hayden’s Ferry Review (January 2019)

An Interview with Nathan Oates, at West Branch Wired (May 2018) (Co-authored with Madison Weaver)

NONFICTION/JOURNALISM:

So You Wanna Book a Book Tour: What Writers Can Learn From DIY Musicians

American Movie: An Essay, at Wig-Wag (October 2022)

The Concept Becomes the Story: On Meredith Alling’s “Other Babies”, at The Offing (July 2021)

This Kid I Knew (An Essay on Collective Soul’s Shine), at March Plaidness (March 2021)

A Giant Ball Isn’t the Only Thing Being Dropped on New Years Eve at Atlas Obscura, (December 2016)

Soccer’s Ultimate Con Man Was a Superstar Who Couldn’t Play The Game at Atlas Obscura, (August 2016)
NOTABLE MENTION in Best American Sports Writing 2017

Mark Twain Had a Lifelong Feud with the United States Postal Service at Atlas Obscura, (August 2016)

How a Portuguese-to-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Comedy Sensation at Atlas Obscura, (June 2016)

OTHER:

Wrestling With Demons (Comic Book), Self published, September 2015 (Co-authored with Travis Geoghegan) OUT OF PRINT