The Tusculum Review

08/11/2025

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Jaime Cortez announces the winner of the 2025 Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize and discusses the story with student editor Bob Schaff. See more at the ...

07/16/2025

The Tusculum Review is pleased to announce thirteen finalists for our 2025 Fiction Chapbook Prize. This is a list of exceptional stories. Final judge Jaime Cortez's choice will be announced in late July. In November, the winning story will be published in our 2025 issue and launched as a stand-alone chapbook with original art. View past chapbooks here: https://ttr.tusculum.edu/tr-back-issues-gallery/ -Chapbooks

“The Whale in the Channel” Edward Boyle
“Basic Training” Janet Burroway
“Football Lessons for Life at the End of the World” G. Currier
“Friendship” Amina Gautier
“Chinatown” Claudia Gottridge
“Nutcracker” Andrea Huelsenbeck
“Intemperance” Kathryn Kulpa
“A Tiny Glint of Savagery” Debbie Labedz
“Good Luck” Lisa Lenzo
“Snakebite” Robin Lovelace
“The Angel Tape” Will Lyman
“Dead, Dead, Dead” Vincent Perrone
“Sweet Love Circles” Willam Polf

06/13/2025

The Tusculum Review's fiction chapbook prizewinner ($1,500) will be chosen by Jaime Cortez, author of the beloved 2021 story collection Gordo, about a community of Mexican American farmworkers in 1970's Watsonville, California.

Enter your story on Submittable by Sunday, June 15. https://tusculumreview.submittable.com/submit/315470/the-tusculum-review-2025-fiction-chapbook-prize-1-500-jaime-cortez

05/01/2025

04/22/2025

New poems and essays by Mubanga Kalimamukwento, winner of The Tusculum Review 2022 Poetry Chapbook Prize. This Zambian writer, lawyer, editor, and scholar is indispensible. Read her NOW.

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11/18/2024

This Wednesday!!!!!!!!!

by Jim Wozniak GREENEVILLE – Now enjoying its 20th anniversary, Tusculum University’s international literary journal is back with a new edition that presents more high-quality work from globally acclaimed authors who have collaborated with Tusculum students to produce another can’t-miss read. ...

11/11/2024

With fall in full swing in East TN, we are overjoyed to announce the launch of our 20th Anniversary Issue on Wednesday, Nov. 20th at 7 PM in the Behan Arena!

The launch will feature a reading from Mirela Musić, the winner of the 2024 Nonfiction Prize, as well a Q and A and reception.

08/14/2024

In 2022, Zambian novelist and lawyer Mubanga Kalimamukwento was selected by Carmen Giménez as the winner of The Tusculum Review's Poetry Chapbook Prize. We published "unmarked graves," Kalimamukwento's remarkable first book of poems about the loss of her sister and parents during the Zambian AIDS crisis, with arresting illustrations by Amiah Brown. https://ttr.tusculum.edu/contest/
Now she has a full collection of poems and essays due next year from Wayfarer Books (" . . . poetry is the language of the earth"): https://homeboundpublications.square.site/product/another-mother-does-not-come-when-yours-dies-by-mubanga-kalimamukwento/201?cs=true&cst=custom "Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies" will be unmissable.

07/29/2024

Mary Cappello announces the The Tusculum Review's 2024 Nonfiction Chapbook Prize winner In conversation with Assistant Nonfiction Editor Z.T. Mitchell. See our Contest page for her written commendations of three remarkable essays: https://ttr.tusculum.edu/contest/

Assistant Nonfiction Editor of The Tusculum Review, Zachary Mitchell, chats with the Nonfiction Chapbook Prize judge, Mary Cappello. They discuss Cappello's ...

07/27/2024

Guest judge Mary Cappello will announce and celebrate the winner and two honorable mentions of The Tusculum Review's 2024 Nonfiction Chapbook Prize on Monday, July 29 at 11 a.m. EST. The recorded interview between Mary and Assistant Nonfiction Editor Z.T. Mitchell will be viewable here and on our website (ttr.tusculum.edu) thereafter. We hope you enjoy this backstage look at the judging process, three striking essays, and Mary's works-in-progress.

06/27/2024

The Tusculum Review is pleased to recognize fifteen finalists for the 2024 Nonfiction Chapbook Prize. Guest judge Mary Cappello's choice will be announced in late July. In November, the winning essay will be published in our 2024 issue and as a stand-alone chapbook with original art. See our website for the longlist of finalists.

2024 Nonfiction Chapbook Prize | Mary Cappello judges A prize of $1,000, publication of the essay in The Tusculum Review’s 20th Anniversary Issue (2024), and creation of a limited edition stand-alone chapbook of the essay with original art is awarded. Read More   Final judge Mary Cappello’s sev...

06/20/2024

Kelly Gray, chosen by guest judge Justin Phillip Reed as the winner of the 2023 Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize, talks to Shilo Niziolek about her prizewinning chapbook "The Mating Calls // of a // Specter."

Shilo Niziolek: Hi Kelly! I am so excited to get to talk to you about this potent and biting chapbook, the winner of the Tusculum Review 2023 Poetry Chapbook Prize, The Mating Calls // of a // Specter!