About Grist

Grist: The Journal for Writers, a new literary journal and website coming out of the University of Tennessee, is a concerted effort of the graduate students in the creative writing program to put together a new kind of literary journal. Above all, we seek to present Grist as a guidebook to writers—a resource for the discussion and demonstration of the strategies of the writer’s craft. Our review will be distinguished by its commitment to the writer's occupation; we endeavor to articulate and frame the process through which innovative literature is conceived and brought to the page.

Grist is currently published once a year. Each issue will feature nearly three hundred pages of quality stories and poems, as well as interviews with writers and creative nonfiction devoted to discussions of craft and the writing process. The print journal will showcase the best-of-the-best of submissions received, while the website will seek to house a consortium of writers’ works in a more fluid and permanent fashion.