Third Coast

"Founded in 1995 by graduate students of the Western Michigan University English department, Third Coast is one of the nation’s premier literary magazines—and one of only a handful of nationally distributed literary magazines to regularly include four genres. Third Coast consistently publishes excellent, and often award-winning, fiction, poetry, non-fiction and drama.

In the past year, two published stories and one poem have been chosen to appear in the O Henry Award Series, The Pushcart Prize Series, and Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri."

Poetry rejections

Standard

2011

Dear ---:

Thank you for submitting your work for our consideration. We regret that we are unable to accept it for publication in Third Coast. We wish you the best of luck in placing it elsewhere.

--The Editors

Higher Tier

We have read your work with interest, and although it doesn't fit our present needs, we enjoyed reading it.

Please know that your submission received serious consideration from our editors.

Prose Rejections

Standard

Thank you for submitting your work for our consideration. We regret that we are unable to accept it for publication in Third Coast. We wish you the best of luck in placing it elsewhere.

--The Editors

Slightly Higher Tier

Thank you for submitting work for our consideration. We have read your work with interest, and although we have decided not to accept it, we invite you to submit again.

Sincerely,

The Editors of Third Coast

Another Tier

Thank you for sending us "-----."

Unfortunately this particular piece was not a right fit for Third Coast, but we were very impressed by your writing. We hope that you will feel encouraged by this short note and will send us more work in the future.

We look forward to reading more.

Sincerely, The Editors of Third Coast

2018

Dear [Name],

Thank you for sending "[Title]" for our consideration.

We have read your submission with interest, and although it doesn't fit our present needs, we were very impressed by your writing. We hope you're encouraged by this note and will send us more work in the future.

Best of luck in placing the piece elsewhere. We look forward to reading more.

Sincerely, The Nonfiction Editors of Third Coast