diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
index 65370b886..0b394487a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
@@ -583,7 +583,29 @@ jobs:
     - name: Login
       run: |
         echo "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" | gh auth login --with-token
+    - name: Check whether the GitHub Release already exists
+      # Allows re-running the deploy job after a partial failure (e.g. PyPI
+      # upload error) without the Make Release step failing with HTTP 422
+      # because the tag/release was created on a prior attempt. Treat
+      # only the literal `release not found` reply as "does not exist";
+      # other failures (auth, rate-limit, network) re-raise so the job
+      # fails loudly instead of falling through to Make Release.
+      id: gh-release
+      env:
+        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        TAG: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+      run: |
+        if gh release view "${TAG}" --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" \
+            >/dev/null 2>err; then
+          echo 'exists=true' >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+        elif grep -qx 'release not found' err; then
+          echo 'exists=false' >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+        else
+          cat err >&2
+          exit 1
+        fi
     - name: Make Release
+      if: steps.gh-release.outputs.exists != 'true'
       uses: aio-libs/create-release@v1.6.6
       with:
         changes_file: CHANGES.rst
@@ -602,6 +624,10 @@ jobs:
     - name: >-
         Publish 🐍📦 to PyPI
       uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+      with:
+        # Allow re-running the deploy job after a partial PyPI upload
+        # without failing on dists that were already published.
+        skip-existing: true
 
     - name: Sign the dists with Sigstore
       uses: sigstore/gh-action-sigstore-python@v3.3.0
diff --git a/CHANGES/1353.contrib.rst b/CHANGES/1353.contrib.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3a5e34b20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/1353.contrib.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Allowed re-running the deploy job after a partial release failure: the
+``Make Release`` step now skips when the GitHub Release already exists,
+and the PyPI publish step uses ``skip-existing`` so dists that were
+already uploaded on a prior attempt do not break the retry
+-- by :user:`bdraco`.
diff --git a/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt b/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt
index 7b20d5413..ef515d3ca 100644
--- a/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt
+++ b/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ deallocation
 decrementation
 dev
 dict
+dists
 docstrings
 downstreams
 eof