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Grist

The Journal for Writers

University of Tennessee

English Dept., 301 McClung Tower

Knoxville, TN  37996-0430

Phone: (865) 604-0174

E-mail: cpence1<at>utk<dot>edu

Web: www.gristjournal.com/

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 8/15-4/30 Response time: 1-3 months Payment: 2 contributor copies Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 978-0-9799366-0-9 Founded: 2008 Issues per year: 1 Distributors: University of Tennessee Press Copy price: $11.95 Average pages: 200-250 Sample price (postpaid): $11.95 Subscription 1 year: $11.95

Publisher’s description: The University of Tennessee’s creative writing program is proud to announce it has launched a new national literary journal. Grist: The Journal for Writers features literary fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction along with interviews and essays about craft. Its pages invite questions regarding the author’s choice of genre, form, and point-of-view as well as facilitating discussions on those elusive terms ‘aesthetics’ and ‘voice.’ There are plenty of literary journals, as well as a fair number of magazines devoted to aspects of craft, but no publication blends the two like Grist.

The premiere issue of Grist features work from some of America’s premiere writers including: Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the #1 bestseller Eat, Pray, Love and PEN/Hemingway finalist; Tom Franklin, author of Poachers: Stories and two novels, Hell at the Breech and Smonk; Eric Puchner, recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and NEA grant; Ron Rash, winner of Appalachian Book of the Year; John Canaday, author of The Invisible World and winner of the Walt Whitman Award; and Bret Anthony Johnston, winner of National Book Award for writers under 35.