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Third Coast

English Department

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, MI 49008

Phone: 269-387-2675

E-mail: editors <at> thirdcoastmagazine.com

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: submit online Reading period: 8/1 – 4/30 Response time: Up to four months Payment: copies Contests: yes, see website ISSN: 1520-8206 Founded: 1995 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ingram; Ebsco Copy price: 9 Average pages: 176 Sample price (postpaid): $9 for current issue / $6 for back issue Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $16

Publisher’s description: Third Coast, one of the nation’s premier literary magazines, is published twice a year by the English Department at Western Michigan University. We are one of the few journals that include a short play in every issue.

Past contributors include Jacob M. Appel, Julianna Baggot, Marvin Bell, Porter Fox, Albert Goldbarth, George Looney, Ander Monson, Howard Norman, Mark Halliday, Terrance Hayes, Major Jackson, Richard Jackson, Trudy Lewis, John McNally, Christopher Merrill, Donald Ray Pollack, Lia Purpura, Peter Orner, Tim Seibles, Jean Valentine, and Nance Van Winckel. Poems and stories have been anthologized in the Best American Series, The Pushcart Prizes, and several other anthologies. We pride ourselves in not only publishing established writers, but also in discovering fantastic work by emerging writers.