- Details
- By Native News Online Staff
TCJ Student is excited to announce that renowned author Linda LeGarde Grover (Bois Forte of Ojibwe), professor emeritus of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth, will serve as guest editor for its 2025 edition. She joins a distinguished group of writers, poets, and artists who have previously contributed as guest editors or essayists for TCJ Student, including N. Scott Momaday, Luci Tapahonso, Daniel H. Wilson, Tommy Orange, Tiffany Midge, Gwen Westerman, Kelli Jo Ford, and Richard Van Camp.
In her acceptance of the guest editorship, Grover expressed her enthusiasm: “Boozhoo aniin, writer relatives! Your work is vital to our shared story, and I look forward to reading your submissions for the 2025 edition of TCJ Student.”
Linda LeGarde Grover is a celebrated author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her latest works include the novel A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids and the mixed-genre memoir Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong. Other notable titles include The Road Back to Sweetgrass, which won the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Fiction Award and the Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award; The Dance Boots, honored with the Flannery O’Connor Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize; The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives, recipient of the Red Mountain Press Editor’s Award and the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Poetry; Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year, which garnered the Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction and the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award; and the novel In the Night of Memory, awarded the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award. Last year, Grover served as the guest editor and curator for The Thunderbird Review, the annual anthology of Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College.
“It is a tremendous honor to have such an esteemed author as Linda LeGarde Grover as our guest editor for TCJ Student,” said Bradley Shreve, editor of Tribal College Journal. “This presents an incredible opportunity for tribal college students from across Indian Country to have their creative works read by one of our foremost writers. Miigwech to Linda for her continued support of tribal college student writing!”
TCJ Student is currently seeking short stories, poetry, memoirs, artwork, and short films from tribal college students for their 2025 contest. Over $1,000 in prizes will be awarded, and the winning entries will be published in the 2025 edition of TCJ Student and online at TCJStudent.org. The deadline for writing submissions is February 7, 2025, and for art and film submissions, it’s March 14, 2025.
More Stories Like This
NTU Launches Fast-Track Construction Trades ProgramNative Forward Scholars Fund Announces 2025 Students of the Year at Empowering Scholars Summit
Navajo Nation Speaker Curley and Council Delegate Dr. Nez Join Education Leaders to Address Federal Budget Cuts
Mackie Moore (Cherokee) Named Interim President of Haskell Indian Nations University
Mohawk Students File Legal Suit Over Changes Impacting Access to Federal Financial Aid
Help us tell the stories that could save Native languages and food traditions
At a critical moment for Indian Country, Native News Online is embarking on our most ambitious reporting project yet: "Cultivating Culture," a three-year investigation into two forces shaping Native community survival—food sovereignty and language revitalization.
The devastating impact of COVID-19 accelerated the loss of Native elders and with them, irreplaceable cultural knowledge. Yet across tribal communities, innovative leaders are fighting back, reclaiming traditional food systems and breathing new life into Native languages. These aren't just cultural preservation efforts—they're powerful pathways to community health, healing, and resilience.
Our dedicated reporting team will spend three years documenting these stories through on-the-ground reporting in 18 tribal communities, producing over 200 in-depth stories, 18 podcast episodes, and multimedia content that amplifies Indigenous voices. We'll show policymakers, funders, and allies how cultural restoration directly impacts physical and mental wellness while celebrating successful models of sovereignty and self-determination.
This isn't corporate media parachuting into Indian Country for a quick story. This is sustained, relationship-based journalism by Native reporters who understand these communities. It's "Warrior Journalism"—fearless reporting that serves the 5.5 million readers who depend on us for news that mainstream media often ignores.
We need your help right now. While we've secured partial funding, we're still $450,000 short of our three-year budget. Our immediate goal is $25,000 this month to keep this critical work moving forward—funding reporter salaries, travel to remote communities, photography, and the deep reporting these stories deserve.
Every dollar directly supports Indigenous journalists telling Indigenous stories. Whether it's $5 or $50, your contribution ensures these vital narratives of resilience, innovation, and hope don't disappear into silence.
The stakes couldn't be higher. Native languages are being lost at an alarming rate. Food insecurity plagues many tribal communities. But solutions are emerging, and these stories need to be told.
Support independent Native journalism. Fund the stories that matter.
Levi Rickert (Potawatomi), Editor & Publisher
