Guide to Literary Magazines

Tin House

PO Box 10500

Portland, OR 97210

Phone: (503) 219-0622

Email: mag_info <at> tinhouse <dot> com

Simultaneous Submissions: yes Email submissions: now accepting online submissions (see website) Payment: yes Contests: no Founded: 1998 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: PGW Copy Price: $12.95 Subscription (Individuals): $29.90

Publisher’s Description: Tin House is a literary magazine based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. The journal was conceived in the summer of 1998 by Portland publisher Win McCormack. He envisioned a journal that would be graphically appealing and free of the stale substance found in many contemporary journals. With this in mind, he enlisted the help of two experienced New York editors, Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell, which resulted in a magazine that contains the energies of both coasts.

Rather than simply being dedicated to either fiction or poetry, Tin House excels in both, and it also publishes interviews with important literary figures, a "Lost and Found" section dedicated to exceptional public domain and generally overlooked material, and drink recipes. It is also distinguished from many other notable literary magazines by actively seeking work from previously unpublished writers for its "New Voices" section.

Recent issues:

11.3, Spring 2010, features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews revolving around the idea of play and sport. From poker to mind games to soccer, you’ll find 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. Featuring David Mamet, Ron Carlson, Steve Almond, Lord Whimsy, and Karen Russell.

11.1, Fall 2009, subtitled “Hope/Dread,” the first half of the issue (depending on which way you hold it) is “Hope” featuring work by Karen Russell, Michael Byers, Matthea Harvey, and Cory Doctorow. Then flip the book upside down and turn it over to the back to experience “Dread” with work by Nick Cave, Ander Monson, Paul Guest, and Cat Richardson.

10.2, Winter 2008, Snuggle up with a warm blanket and a bright light, because this winter reading issue is taking you down the dark, abandoned corridors of the human condition. With fiction both riveting and darkly humorous come authors Christopher Sorrentino and Benjamin Nugent, while Kate Christensen and Katie Crouch put on readable feasts that will leave you reeling.