We would 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 24.

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.

Please submit only one story or essay (ten-thousand-word limit), or up to five poems at a time. Multiple submissions will be returned unread. We shall do our best to respond within three months, however, in some cases this period may be longer. If you have not received a response from us within ninety days, we will be happy to respond to your e-mail inquiries. We do ask that you please wait until you hear back from us before submitting new work for consideration.

Tin House does accept simultaneous submissions. In the event that the work is accepted for publication elsewhere, please do us the courtesy of informing us promptly.

Only previously unpublished works will be considered for publication. Our reading period is September 1-May 31; submissions received after this date will be returned unread.

For both poetry and prose submissions, please ensure that the author’s name appears on every page. For prose submissions only, please number each page of your manuscript, starting with the title page. Please also number the last page and indicate by writing “End” that it is the final page.

Cover letters should include a word count and indicate whether the submission is fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Also, please note whether or not you would like your manuscript returned.

Manuscripts transmitted via fax or e-mail will not be accepted for consideration. Only those processed through our online submission manager or sent by regular mail will be considered for publication.

Submissions can be mailed to Tin House, PO Box 10500, Portland, OR 97210. Please enclose an SASE (include an IRC with international submissions), or we cannot guarantee a response to or the return of your work.

For those of you interested in submitting your work electronically, using our dandy online submission manager (we call her Tina), you are invited to do so now. Simply click here to get started.

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All questions/comments about submissions should be addressed to Tonaya at submissions@tinhouse.com

All other magazine queries should be addressed to Cheston at info@tinhouse.com