Deadline: June 15, 2025
Entry fee: $20
About the competition
The Tusculum Review Chapbook Contests | Chapbooks are short books of literature, appealingly packaged: an art and literary form. Although literary presses most often publish chapbooks of poetry, the Tusculum Review publishes essay and short story chapbooks as well. Our annual chapbook contest rotates through the genres on a three-year cycle. We commission a well-matched artist to illustrate the winning work and design a chapbook whose aesthetics augment the text. The chapbook launches live in Greeneville, Tennessee in November.
Contest judge Jaime Cortez is a California writer and artist based in Watsonville and the SF Bay Area.
Competition guideline
- The entry fee is $20 per manuscript. Entry fees include a one-year subscription to the Tusculum Review (an annual publication) and consideration for publication in our 21st volume (2025). We encourage international submissions but must charge an additional $15 fee to mail the journal to locations outside the U.S.
- The deadline for submitting is June 15, 2025. All entries should be sent through Submittable: tusculumreview.submittable.com. We do not accept mailed or emailed submissions, but if Submittable is a hardship, let us know at [email protected].
- Each manuscript should consist of a single story in a standard 12-point font. Stories may be between 2,000 words (about 7 manuscript pages) and 7,000 words (22 pages).
- Read the whole guideline and submit your entry here.
