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Follow us on Facebook Home Buy Volumes and Chapbooks Contest Book Reviews Published Authors Artists Profiles Writing at Tusculum University Tusculum Writing Student & Alumni News 2024 Curtis Owens Awards Editorial Staff Submit Home Buy - Volumes and Chapbooks Contest Book Reviews Published Authors - Artists Profiles Writing at Tusculum University - Tusculum Writing Student & Alumni News - 2024 Curtis Owens Awards Editorial Staff Submit 2024 Nonfiction Prize Mary Cappello judges Read More 2023 Poetry Prize Winner Kelly Gray - The Mating Calls of a Specter Read More 2024 Curtis Owens Awards for Students Monic Ductan judges Read More Monic Ductan reads at Tusculum April 11 Monic Ductan, author of a Garden & Gun magazine Best New Book for Southerners,” Daughters of Muscadine , and the 2024 Curtis (’28) and Billie Owens Literary Prizes judge, reads from her work, signs books, and announces student prizewinners April 11 at 7 pm in the Meen Center Brotherton Boardroom. Free and open to the public. Now Available | 2023 Chapbook & Volume 19 Fiber art by Sarah Castellon Cover art by Jay Crilley Katrin Arefy recognized for Blowing Dandelions” Congratulations to Katrin Arefy, whose essay in Volume 18 of , Blowing Dandelions,” was honored as a Notable Essay of 2022 in Best American Essays 202 3 by Series Editor Robert Atwan. Her latest theatre work, The Portrait of an Angel, a Lion, a Monster , premiered in Manhattan in January 2022 and was well received by the audience and NY critics in a review on The Theatre Times . Katrin’s play A Massacre” was included in the 2023 season of Golden Thread Production’s ReOrient Festival in San Francisco. See her website for more about Katrin’s work as a playwright and essayist. 2024 Nonfiction Chapbook Prize | Mary Cappello judges A prize of $1,000, publication of the essay in ’s 20th Anniversary Issue (2024), and creation of a limited edition stand-alone chapbook with original art is awarded. Read More Final judge Mary Cappello ’s seven books of literary nonfiction include a Los Angeles Times bestselling detour on awkwardness; a lyric biography; the mood fantasia, Life Breaks In ; and a speculative manifesto, Lecture . 2023 Poetry Chapbook Prizewinner | Kelly Gray Final judge Justin Phillip Reed has selected Kelly Gray’s The Mating Calls of a Specter as the winner of 2023 Poetry Chapbook Prize. Reed praises Gray’s work: . . . It’s really the sensual that gets me—some restoration of faith in the body-poem union comes terrifically alive here, not the least due to the presence of damp animals, sharp instruments, bare stomachs, wafts of beer breath, truck exhaust, ‘thin femurs// jagged alps of possum teeth.’ An anxious Frankenwork. I frequently delight in feeling frightened; is that alright? I’m made to ask. Is delight an appropriate response to these images? Should one feel ‘appropriate’ when reading poetry? In a contemporary fog of content over-saturation, I can’t not advocate for cultivating this sort of self-checking trouble as a beacon of worthwhile writing.” Reed chose Timmy Chong’s East Coast Love Poems for honorable mention: ” . . . I’m more present at than privy to a conversation that is delicious to listen to, like a death metal opera in unfamiliar idiom, a fast bike ride through a district lined by buskers playing sweet somethings. ‘I want to be known like: No, / no… I’ll try again tomorrow’ goes the deceptively straightforward (and agreeable) intro to a poem that then slides into a particle party of my favorite sounds, buzzing like a packet of Nerds candy. The experience leaves me convinced not only of ‘love language’ as more of a literal phenomenon than just a self-help phrase or meme trope, but also of the act of love as a force that transforms and expands how we can speak and, subsequently, how we can think and imagine and conspire.” 2023 Poetry Chapbook Prize submissions end Thursday, June 15 Chosen poet wins $1,000, creation of a limited edition stand-alone chapbook with original artwork, and publication in Volume 19 of . Justin Phillip Reed , author of Indecency , The Malevolent Volume , and the forthcoming With Bloom Upon Them and Also With Blood , judges. Mubanga Kalimamukwento publishes Pretend” in The Ex-Puritan Kalimamukwento, winner of the 2022 Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize for unmarked graves , publishes her first nonfiction, to her sister. Pretend” is as arresting as her poems. Our publication of her chapbook, with original illustrations by Amiah Brown, has been read across the world. Hannah Ibibo, Nigerian Student in Minneapolis Dr Patience Phiri in Solwezi, Zambia Dorica Banda in Lusaka, Zambia Vince Gatton, Winner of The Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for 10-Minute Plays (2023) Gatton’s The Oktavist” won first place in The Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for 10-Minute Plays. His play will be performed at Tusculum University for The 5×10 Plays event in the Behan Theatre. (Read more about Vince under Contest .) Tusculum University Theatre Presents The 5×10 Plays Five 10-Minute plays will be performed at Tusculum University in the Behan Theatre. Winner of The Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for 10-Minute Plays Vince Gatton will have his play The Oktavist” performed along with runner-up Hank Kimmel’s The End of Summer”. Hank Kimmel, Runner-Up of The Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for 10-Minute Plays (2023) Kimmel’s play The End of Summer” won as runner up in The Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for 10-Minute Plays. His play will be performed at Tusculum University for The 5×10 Plays event in the Behan Theatre. (Read more about Hank under Contest .) Music & Memory hosts the winner of our 2022 Poetry Chapbook Prize, Zambian poet Mubanga Kalimamukwento, for a reading, Q&A, and reception celebrating the publication of her chapbook, unmarked graves . She describes the collection as conversations with ghosts,” and she contemplates the loss of her closest family members to the AIDS epidemic in Zambia. Copies of the limited edition chapbook will be sold and signed. Original illustrations by artist Amiah Brown. 2022 Poetry Chapbook Prize winner Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s Chapbook Launch Thursday, November 17 | 7 pm | Behan Theater | Tusculum University | Free and open to the public (Illustration by Amiah Brown.) Suphil Lee Park’s essay An Escape Clause,” published in Volume 17 of , was recognized on the list of Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2021 in Best American Essays 2022 . Priscilla Long’s essay After Long Silence,” published in Volume 17 of , was recognized on the list of Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2021 in Best American Essays 2022 . 2022 Poetry Chapbook Prizewinner unmarked graves Mubanga Kalimamukwento Read More 2022 Poetry Chapbook Prize Finalist Puebla Brent Amenyro Read More 2022 Poetry Chapbook Prize Judge Carmen Giménez Read More 2022 Issue | Volume 18 Submission Guidelines Recent Posts Meredith Barton | Book Review March 13, 2022 Charlie Finger | Book Review June 27, 2020 PJ Green | Book Review February 21, 2020 Contact Us Email: review@tusculum.edu Phone: (423) 636-7300 ext. 5420 . Theme by Think Up Themes Ltd . Powered by WordPress . Home Buy Contest Book Reviews Published Authors Writing at Tusculum University Editorial Staff...