Tin House Launches Buy a Book, Save a Bookstore

Tin House Implements New Policy for Fall Reading Period. Unsolicited Submissions must be Accompanied by a Receipt for a Hardcover or Paperback from a Real-Life Bookstore


PORTLAND, OREGON (JUNE 30, 2010) In the spirit of discovering new talent as well as supporting established authors and the bookstores who support them, Tin House Books will accept unsolicited manuscripts dated between August 1 and November 30, 2010, as long as each submission is accompanied by a receipt for a book from a bookstore. Tin House magazine will require the same for unsolicited submissions sent between September 1 and December 30, 2010.
Writers who cannot afford to buy a book or cannot get to an actual bookstore are encouraged to explain why in haiku or one sentence (100 words or fewer). Tin House Books and Tin House magazine will consider the purchase of e-books as a substitute only if the writer explains: why he or she cannot go to his or her neighborhood bookstore, why he or she prefers digital reads, what device, and why.

Writers are invited to videotape, film, paint, photograph, animate, twitter, or memorialize in any way (that is logical and/or decipherable) the process of stepping into a bookstore and buying a book to send along for our possible amusement and/or use on our Web site.

  Tin House Books will not accept electronic submissions. Tin House magazine will accept manuscripts by mail or digitally. The magazine will accept scans of bookstore receipts.

ALL MANUSCRIPTS WITHOUT RECEIPT OR EXPLANATION
WILL BE RETURNED UNREAD IN SASE.
 
 

Please send manuscripts to:

Save a Book
Tin House Books
2617 NW Thurman
Portland, OR 97210

Or
 
Save a Book
Tin House Magazine
PO Box 10500
Portland, OR 97210

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Douglas Bauer's essay, "What We Hunger For," an appreciation of M.F.K. Fisher from Tin House #36, will be included in Best Food Writing 2010, edited by Holly Hughes. Look for it from Da Capo Press in October.

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If you're headed to Book Expo America later this month, be sure to drop by the Tin House booth. We'll be there under the rather unflattering lights of the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan all day Wednesday, May 26th and Thursday, May 27th.

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Three Tin House pieces have won a place in The Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses. Charles Baxter's "The Cousins" and Anthony Doerr's "The River Nemunas" (both from Issue #40) will appear along with Sigrid Nunez's essay "Sontag's Rules" (from Issue #41) in the 2011 edition of the long-running series. Look for the book to hit shelves in November.

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Guest editor Richard Russo has chosen four Tin House stories for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2010. The winners are "Donkey Greedy, Donkey Get Punched" by Steve Almond (from Issue #40); "The Cousins" by Charles Baxter (from Issue #40);"The Ascent" by Ron Rash (from Issue #39); and "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach" by Karen Russell (from Issue #41). Look for the book to hit stores in October from Mariner Books, and in the meantime, congratulations to these four fantastic writers!

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Natalie Bakopoulos's story "Fresco, Byzantine" from Tin House #37 was included in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2010. The anthology -- featuring work chosing by the prize jury of Junot Diaz, Paula Fox, and Yiyun Li -- is out now from Anchor Books. See here for more information.

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 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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