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Literary Arts Presents A Benefit Event for Writers in the Schools

Tin House Magazine's Tenth Anniversary Celebration!

Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 7:30pm.
Newmark Theatre - 1111 SW Broadway, Portland

Founded in 1999 by longtime Oregon publisher, Win McCormack, Tin House has for the past decade been a quiet force in the literary world, with its headquarters in the distinctive zinc-sided house in NW Portland. In its 40 issues it has been privileged to print some of our nation's finest fiction writers and poets, such as Richard Ford, Denis Johnson, Deborah Eisenberg, Billy Collins, Frank Bidart and Matthea Harvey. From its conception, too, it has been devoted to discovering the next generation of talent, like Portland's own darling poets, Michael and Matthew Dickman.

This event will celebrate Tin House's 10th Anniversary by gathering some of this country's most exciting established and emerging writers who've been published by the magazine in the past decade. With readings, personal anecdotes and short interviews, the night promises to be a snapshot of what the magazine offers in each of its issues, quality fiction and poetry with, most importantly, personality to spare.

Proceeds from this event will benefit WITS (Writers in the Schools), a program of Literary Arts.

Emcee - Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead is the author, most recently, of Sag Harbor, his first "autobiographical" novel. Whitehead is also the author of three previous novels The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, which was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Apex Hides the Hurt, as well as a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York.

He received a 2002 MacArthur "genius grant," and the judges called him "a bold experimental writer whose social and philosophical themes speak to the heart of American society." Whitehead's articles about music and television have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Spin and Village Voice."

Readers/Presenters
Aimee Bender
Matthew Dickman
Michael Dickman
Jim Shepard
Dorothy Allison
Steve Almond
Charles D'Ambrosio
Peter Rock
Ron Hansen
Lee Montgomery
Rob Spillman
Elissa Schappell
Win McCormack.

About WITS (Writers in the Schools)
Established in 1996, WITS is a comprehensive program that cultivates young writers and supports Oregon authors through semester-long writing residencies in the Portland public high schools. WITS employs poets, fiction writers, essayists and playwrights to engage students in reading and writing across the curriculum.

Individual Tickets:
-On sale: Friday, June 8th @ 9:00am.
-Prices: $12-$14
-Order Online at www.ticketmaster.com
-Portland Center for the Performing Arts Box Office, SW Broadway and Main
Street
-Call Ticketmaster at 503-224-4400
-All Ticketmaster outlets, including select Fred Meyer

Visit www.literary-arts.org for additional information.

Literary Arts is a statewide, nonprofit organization that enriches the lives of Oregonians through language and literature. The programs of Literary Arts are Oregon Book Awards, Oregon Literary Fellowships, Portland Arts & Lectures, Poetry in Motion®, Writers in the Schools and Delve: Readers' Seminars. For more information about the programs of Literary Arts, please contact James Rishky at 503.227.2583.

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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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 FALL 2009 THEME: HOPE/FEAR

Tin House is now reading for the Fall 2009 issue, which will have a theme of Hope/Fear. We are looking for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction that addresses the idea of a tipping point—economic, cultural, environmental. What we are particularly interested in are personal visions, either optimistic or pessimistic. Writers can take on global concerns, but are not required to. Primarily, we are after singular voices and vivid stories. Deadline for submissions is June 1, but it will surely be crowded by then, so please submit asap.

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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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