Phillips to judge 2018 poetry chapbook prize

Emilia Phillips, 2018 judge. Photo by Tracy Tanner.

Emilia Phillips, 2018 judge. Photo by Tracy Tanner.

We are delighted to announce that Emilia Phillips will serve as judge for The Tusculum Review‘s 2018 Poetry Chapbook Prize. Phillips is the author of two poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, Signaletics (2013) and Groundspeed (2016), and three chapbooks, most recently Beneath the Ice Fish Like Souls Look Alike (Bull City Press, 2015). Her poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including AgniBoston ReviewPloughsharesPoetry, and elsewhere. She’s an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her third book, Empty Clip, will be published by the University of Akron Press Spring 2018.

WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING MANUSCRIPTS FOR OUR 2018 CONTEST.

The prize is $1,000 and publication in The Tusculum Review.

The deadline is March 1, 2018.

Send contest submissions to:
The Tusculum Review
P.O. Box 5113
60 Shiloh Road
Greeneville, TN 37743.

Mark envelopes: “CHAPBOOK CONTEST.”

The entry fee is $20 per chapbook manuscript. We accept checks and money orders made payable to The Tusculum Review.

For full contest guidelines, look here.