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Our Nonfiction Workshop, Intro to Creative Writing, and Literature of Sexuality students have been reading and marvellin...
10/09/2025

Our Nonfiction Workshop, Intro to Creative Writing, and Literature of Sexuality students have been reading and marvelling at Rachel M. Hanson's "The End of Tennessee." We're all looking forward to meeting this astounding writer next week. For more info: https://ttr.tusculum.edu/

The 2026 Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize, judged by Nate Marshall. $1,500 + journal publication + chapbook with or...
09/03/2025

The 2026 Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize, judged by Nate Marshall. $1,500 + journal publication + chapbook with original illustrations. https://ttr.tusculum.edu/8085-2/

Congratulations to Robin Lee Lovelace, winner of the 2025 Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize. The illustrated chapbo...
08/30/2025

Congratulations to Robin Lee Lovelace, winner of the 2025 Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize. The illustrated chapbook of her winning story, "Snakebite," will launch on November 20 at Tusculum University's Behan Theater. We're thrilled that Lovelace will join us to read from her winning story and take questions about her work. Reception to follow.

From Blackbird: Mary Cappello's 2025 NonfictioNow keynote, delivered June 13, 2025, as both recording and illustrated tr...
08/30/2025

From Blackbird: Mary Cappello's 2025 NonfictioNow keynote, delivered June 13, 2025, as both recording and illustrated transcript.
https://blackbird.vcu.edu/nonfictions-underground/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMV3xpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsTRcw6odiBrEhgW8gv3WaEancPCMec7n-wpuM_07kfhTUnnKFFGpqw_rrQm_aem_ag5SSZpK9LfZgcl0FSlsaA

Nonfiction’s Underground: A (High)Keynote Delivered at NonfictioNow, 2025 Mary Cappello Editor’s Note: The following keynote was delivered on June 13, 2025, at the NonfictioNow conference convening in South Bend, Indiana, and hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s creative writing faculty...

https://youtu.be/FrsJ0YAgqOA
08/11/2025

https://youtu.be/FrsJ0YAgqOA

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 ...

The Tusculum Review is pleased to announce thirteen finalists for our 2025 Fiction Chapbook Prize. This is a list of exc...
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

05/01/2025
New poems and essays by Mubanga Kalimamukwento, winner of The Tusculum Review 2022 Poetry Chapbook Prize. This Zambian w...
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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This Wednesday!!!!!!!!!
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. ...

With fall in full swing in East TN, we are overjoyed to announce the launch of our 20th Anniversary Issue on Wednesday, ...
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.

In 2022, Zambian novelist and lawyer Mubanga Kalimamukwento was selected by Carmen Giménez as the winner of The Tusculum...
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.

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The Tusculum Review is an international literary journal published in the English Department at Tusculum University, a civic, liberal, and medical arts school in East Tennessee. We’ve published an annual issue since 2006.

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