
Gary Garrison Playwriting Award Finalists
Andrea Aptecker “I’m Glad We’re Normal”
Dave Carley “Out Late”
Lisa Erickson “Step on Me”
Vince Gatton “The Oktavist”
Yael Haskal “Blood”
Hank Kimmel “The End of Summer”
Morgan Kinnally “Stories of a Nuer Refugee, or Raven Hansen’s Totally Lit Senior Project”
Jeni Mahoney “Running in Circles Screaming”
Jennifer O’Grady “Sugar”
Michael Pisaturo “Where the Fireworks Come From”
Gary Garrison will announce the winner of the award here and on our Facebook page Monday, January 9 at 11 am ET.
Music & Memory
The Tusculum Review 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 The Tusculum Review, 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 The Tusculum Review, 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


2022 Poetry Chapbook Prize Finalist
Puebla
Brent Amenyro
2022 Poetry Chapbook Prize Judge
Carmen Giménez
