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, nonfiction, and drama.
In the past several years, stories published in Third Coast have gone on to appear in the O. Henry Award Series, the Pushcart Prize anthologies, and Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. Poetry first featured in the journal has been selected for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize Series.
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Editor in Chief: Latifa Ayad
Managing Editor: Sophia Khan
Fiction Editors: Daniel Alexander, Emilie Helmbold, and Joseph Niduaza
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Claire Robbins
Poetry Editors: Emily Daniel and Alyssa Start
Drama Editor: Kristen Field
Layout Editor: David Yarnall
Readers: Christopher Colegrove, Lauren Everhart-Deckard, Tristan Heibel, Simon Hopkins, Kat Karolyi, Sofia Méndez Ramírez, Vika Pashby, and Amanda Scott
Interns: Amanda Gatewood, Kayla Lambert, Kat Linkous, Taylor Mroz, Corinne Perry, and Zoe Presnal
Faculty Advisor: Thisbe Nissen