The inaugural issue of The Tusculum Review, Tusculum College's new literary magazine is "hot off the press" and in local bookstores.

The 194-page magazine features a diverse collection of short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction and is the result of months of toil by Tusculum students, faculty, and staff.

Included in the Tusculum Review is the winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award for College Writers - an excerpt from the novel, "The Late (Great) Zechariah Olumbayo," by Harvard University student Elinathan Ohiomoba as well as a finalist, an excerpt from the novel, "Luminous Days," by Mitchell Jackson.

This award has been established by novelist Marita Golden to honor excellence in fiction writing by students of African descent enrolled full time as undergraduate or graduate college students in the United States.

The Tusculum Review also features "Unnamed, Early Spring" by Lexa Hillyer, the winner of the inaugural Poetry Prize, and "The Guilt Artist" by Garrett Rowland, winner of the inaugural Fiction Prize.

Articles were collected for the magazine in the summer and fall of 2004, and a combination of faculty, staff, and students worked numerous hours to read through the submitted works and to select and edit those that have been published in the magazine.

Editor of the magazine is Mary Boyes, assistant professor of English at Tusculum. Student staff members include managing editor Nathan Jones, assistant managing editor Landree Brotherton, fiction editor Kirsten Manick, poetry editor Samn Kidd, assistant poetry editor Becca Friddle, nonfiction editor Courtney Holmes, art editor Wanda Rahm, and graphic designer Christopher Shrader, who completed the layout and design of the magazine.

Additional student staff members include Ann Campbell and Melinda Robinson, poetry; Joy Harris and Rob Wyatt, fiction; Andrew Merchant, nonfiction, and proofreaders and copy editors John Cage, Yvonne Daniel, Anup Kaphle, Amanda Kyker, Antoinette Matheson, and Melissa Smith.

The Board of Advisory and Contributing Editors includes well known writers and Tusculum professors Katie Doman, Lou Haney, and Joy Ross, English Department staff member Aurora Pope, and former professors Elizabeth Gordon and Tom Silva.

The magazine is available for $12 at area bookstores and for $5 at the Tusculum College Bookstore, located on campus. Submissions for the next magazine are being accepted through Nov. 15. Please send a hard copy with name, address, phone number and e-mail address on the submission and a self-addressed stamped envelope to Mary Boyes, Editor, The Tusculum Review, Tusculum College Department of English, Greeneville, TN 37743.

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