SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Starting September 1, 2009, Tin House will resume reading for our Winter 2009 issue (although we recommend getting your submission in by September 30 to be considered for this issue).

We would also like to announce our theme for Spring 2010: Games People Play

We’re looking for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews revolving around the idea of play and sport. From poker to mind games to soccer, we want unique voices and ideas about games, play, and sport, from the personal to the cultural, from the inside and the outside, positive and negative, from within big-business sports to profiles of privately obsessive participants in willfully obscure games. At this stage (of the game, race, rally, inning, hand, match, set, clash, etc.) we are open to suggestions. The deadline for unsolicited submissions to this theme issue will be November 1.
 

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 CONGRATULATIONS HEATHER!

Knock Knock, by Paris Editor Heather Hartley, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in early 2010.

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 BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2009

The fine folks at Best American have selected three Tin House stories for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2009, guest-edited by Alice Sebold.  The worthy winners are: “A Shadow Table” by Alice Fulton (Issue #36), “Hurricanes Anonymous” by Adam Johnson (Issue #36), and “One Dog Year” by Kevin Moffett (Issue #38).  The anthology publishes in October.

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 NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH 2009

Kevin Wilson's story "No Joke, This Is Going To Be Painful" (from Issue #38) has been selected for inclusion in the 2009 volume of New Stories From the South, guest-edited by Madison Smartt Bell and publishing in August.

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 BEST AMERICAN FANTASY 2

Judy Budnitz's "Abroad" and Kelly Link's "Light," both from Issue #33, have been included in Best American Fantasy 2, out now from Prime Books.  In their introduction, editors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer write of our Fantastic Women issue: "All by itself it represents a kind of 'year's best,' from which we could easily have taken many more stories."

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 IMPORTANT UPDATE

Tin House is now accepting online submissions. We will also continue to accept submissions by mail. Our standard submission guidelines apply to both. We request that you read the guidelines carefully before following the link to our online submission manager.

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TIN HOUSE MAGAZINE WRITERS GUIDELINES ADDITION

Writers' manuscripts must have the page number and the authors' names on each page, starting with the title page, as well as the word “end” on the final page of the submission. Further, on their cover letter, writers must indicate whether the story is fiction or nonfiction.

For more guidelines, check http://www.tinhouse.com/mag/mag_submit.htm.

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