The Tusculum Review

 

 

The 2010 Tusculum Review Poetry Prize offers a $1,000 (U. S.) purse and publication.  There is a $15 (U. S.) entry fee, which includes one copy of the vol. 6/2010 edition of the The Tusculum Review and consideration for publication.  We consider all works submitted for publication, but only works with entry fees are considered for the contest.

 

Submissions must be postmarked by March 15, 2010 for consideration.

 

Each submission is restricted to 1-5 poems, no more than 10 PAGES per submission.  All entries must be typed.  Poets may submit more than one submission, but each submission must include the required $15 (U. S.) entry fee.

 

Previously published poems, including web publications, are not allowed.  Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if our editors are notified immediately that the work has been accepted elsewhere.

 

Please send a cover letter with your name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and the title(s) of your work. Please do NOT include your name on your actual submission.  For those entering more than one submission, you may designate a gift copy of The Tusculum Review vol. 6/2010.  Please provide the name(s) and address(es) for where you want the journal(s) mailed.

 

Manuscripts will be numbered and all names on the manuscripts will be removed before they are presented to the judges.  In the event that judges do not deem any submissions worthy of the prize, The Tusculum Review reserves the right to extend the call for manuscripts or to cancel the award.

 

The final judge this year will be Allison Joseph.  Family, friends, and previous students of the judge, or those with a reciprocal professional relationship with the judge, will be disqualified from the contest.  Submissions will be screened by the staff of The Tusculum Review, and finalists will be forwarded for judging.

 

All contestants will receive a letter announcing the winner and finalists with their copy of The Tusculum Review vol. 6/2010.  The winner and finalists will be listed on The Tusculum Review website in April 2010.  The new issue will be mailed in May 2010.

 

Manuscripts will not be returned.

 

Mark all envelopes, “Poetry Contest.”

 

Send all work to:

The Tusculum Review

60 Shiloh Road

P.O. Box 5113

Greeneville, Tennessee 37743.

 

We accept checks and money orders payable to The Tusculum Review.

 

For more information, contact the editors at review@tusculum.edu or 423.636.7300 ext. 5285.

 

 

 

 

Allison Joseph is an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where she serves as editor for Crab Orchard Review and director of the Young Writers Workshop, a summer conference for high school-aged writers.

 

Books: Allison Joseph is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand, 1992), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon, 1997), In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon, 2003), and Worldly Pleasures (Word Press, 2004). Her sixth collection, My Father’s Kites, will be published in 2010 by Steel Toe Books. 

 

Awards: What Keeps Us Here won Ampersand Press’s 1992 Women Poets Series Competition. It also received the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares and Emerson College in Boston. In addition, she was awarded Illinois Arts Council Fellowships in Poetry in 1996 and 2007 and a Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council in 1997.