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The Tusculum Review is one of only a few international literary journals that involves undergraduate students in its editorial work. We believe this cultivation of literary community across generations is a crucial tread in their path to becoming important writers and publishers. Justin Phillip Reed (’13) worked on the review as an undergraduate and in 2018 won the National Book Award for Indecency, his second book of poems. Since then, he has published his third poetry collection, The Malevolent Volume, and the essay collection With Bloom Upon Them and Also With Blood: A Horror Miscellany. Reed is currently serving as Clemson University’s writer-in-residence. Nepali student Anup Kaphle (’08) leaped from editing Tusculum’s student newspaper and the first two volumes of The Tusculum Review to studying at the Columbia School of Journalism and working for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Buzzfeed News. He served as editor-in-chief of The Kathmandu Post and is now editor-in-chief of Rest of World. Joseph Borden (’14) began his career in editing & publishing immediately upon graduation from Tusculum and is now Senior Book Editor for Fox Chapel Publishing.
Nathan Jones (’07) is the Curator of Television News Collections at Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. Eliza (Land) Blankenship Boles (’07) is the Head of Research and Instructional Services at the University of Tennessee College of Law. PJ Green (’21) is a television reporter in Kansas City. Malaysian Tusculum soccer player, Communications major, and Tusculum Review Summer Editor Ethan Lau (’22) is a food writer for Malay Mail. Grayson Patterson Jones (’23) studies at Lincoln Memorial University’s Duncan School of Law. Liza Alicia Rodriguez (’22) is pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Fiction) at the University of South Carolina with a fully-funded Teaching Assistantship.
Students graduating from the Writing Program at Tusculum University have been accepted into first-rate graduate programs with excellent financial aid packages, full tuition waivers, fellowships, and teaching assistantships, including (but not limited to): Washington University in St. Louis, Chatham University, Columbia College (Chicago), the University of Mississippi, the University of Central Florida, Florida Atlantic University, the University of Central Arkansas, the California Institute for the Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Southern Illinois University, Florida International University, the University of Memphis, the University of Tampa, East Tennessee State University, Lincoln Memorial University, Milligan College, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and Georgia College.
Other students have followed their undergraduate work with study in other areas of personal interest ranging from mortuary science to massage therapy. Some of our students have taken teaching positions around the world, teaching English in the US, Chile, South Korea, and China.
Students’ work on The Tusculum Review gives them a unique opportunity to develop the writing, collaborative, and entrepreneurial skills necessary to all these endeavors. Students evaluate submissions in four genres, correspond with professional (sometimes Pulitzer Prize-winning) writers, design and layout publications using the Adobe programs, represent The Tusculum Review at conferences, network with visiting writers, edit their own student literary journal (Sit Lux), and refine and publish their own work while undergraduates. Per capita, you would be hard-pressed to find a more productive and influential undergraduate creative writing program than Tusculum University’s: Tusculum English graduates change the shape of literature and the world.
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