Third Coast Magazine is accepting previously unpublished fiction entries up to 9,000 words and up to three previously unpublished poems for its 2012 Third Coast Fiction and Poetry Contests through the extended deadline of midnight on January 31. Simultaneous submissions are permitted provided an entry is withdrawn from the contest if accepted elsewhere during the judging period.
Winners will be announced in April. A prize of $1,000 will be awarded to the winners of the Jaimy Gordon Prize in Fiction and the Third Coast Poetry Prize, and the winning story and poem will be published in the Fall 2012 issue of Third Coast Magazine. The reading fee is $16 for each entry and includes a one-year subscription to Third Coast. There is no limit on the number of entries per person.
Third Coast is an American literary magazine based at Western Michigan University and founded in 1995 by graduate students in the university’s English department. Work that has appeared in the journal has received The O. Henry Award and The Pushcart Prize and has been reprinted in Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. For more information or to submit, visit the website at http://www.thirdcoastmagazine.com.
