| Non-Credit Courses The Writer's Loft: The Trunk Welcome to the online home for our literary journal, The Trunk: A Creative Companion to The Writer's Loft. The Trunk spotlights our students' literary achievements, as well as contains how-to articles, columns, and much more. The journal contains work from Loft writers, mentors, alumni, and friends. Shakespeare & Company & The Trunk In the past, The Trunk has been made available to the Paris literary crowd via the famed Shakespeare and Company booksellers. Sylvia Beach opened the original Shakespeare and Company at 12 rue de L’Odeon, Paris, in 1919, and she fostered the arts and the writings of such artists as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Shaw, Pound, Stein, Joyce and so many more. Writing Guidelines Ever wonder what to do and what not to do when submitting a piece of your writing to a magazine or journal? Former Trunk editor R. L. Burkhead, M.F.A., wrote a column to help writers navigate these tricky publishing waters. The piece, Carriage Return; Indent, appeared in the Summer 2006 issue of the Trunk, and is also available here. Digital Versions of The Trunk Available The Trunk is available online as an Adobe.PDF file. To view these files, you will need to download and install the free Acrobat Reader. These are large files and we recommend that you use highspeed broadband to download. Notice: The Trunk is a literary journal of The Writer's Loft at MTSU's College of Continuing Education and Distance Learning and is offered either in print or an online version each year. The Trunk reserves the right to make editorial and technical corrections to all submissions. The materials published by the Trunk do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the College or University staff or administrators. No part of this journal may be reproduced. All writers/contributors to the Trunk retain all publishing rights and copyrights to their pieces. | 
