CONGRATULATIONS TO LEE MONTGOMERY

Whose World Is This? a collection of stories by Executive Editor of Tin House Books and Founder of the Tin House Writers Workshop, Lee Montgomery, has been nominated for the Oregon Book Awards' Ken Kesey Prize for Fiction. The winner will be announced November 9th at the awards ceremony.

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SPRING 2009 THEME ISSUE: APPETITES

The Spring 2009 theme of Tin House will be Appetites—for food, sex, drugs, drink, and our collective appetites for resources, entertainment, gratification, humiliation, etc... We're looking for stories, poems, and essays that address the Webster's definitions for Appetite:  "an inherent craving" or "any of the instinctive desires necessary to keep up organic life." Our deadline is December 1, but please submit early as the issue will fill quickly. Appetites will be in stores March 1 through June 1.

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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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PUSHCARTS 2009

All of the folks here at the Tin House would like to congratulate the wicked goodness that is Shannon Cain's "Cultivation" and Bruce Smith's "Devotion: Red Shift" for receiving Pushcart Awards for 2009.  Look for them in the Pushcart Prize Anthology down the road.

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WE HAVE A WINNER!

Literary Arts just announced the winners of the 2007 Oregon Book Awards and Lee Montgomery, Editorial Director of Tin House Books and Executive Editor of Tin House was the winner of the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction for her memoir The Things Between Us (Free Press).

One of the judges, Lee Gutkind, described Montgomery’s work as “vivid and riveting like cinema” and praised her ability to craft “real-life characters with evocative sensitivity.”

Congratulations to Lee!!

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See how Stephen King turned his short story, "Memory" from Tin House #28 into a novel

On the Amazon.com page for Stephen King's new novel, Duma Key Chuck Verrill, King's longtime editor, discusses how the story was expanded from what Tin House subscribers read into what will surely be King's next bestseller. Also, you can read the full text of "Memory" alongside the first chapter of the book. Check it out.

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FANTASTIC FANTASY

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