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:  Kai Harris

Managing Editor:  Chris M. Williams-Morales

Drama Editor:  Amber Palmer

Fiction Editors:  Leslee Chan, Tim Conrad

Assistant Fiction Editor: Cody Harrison

Creative Nonfiction Editor:  Claire Robbins

Poetry Editors:  Nicole Mason, Kenny Jakubas

Assistant Poetry Editor: Tim Windy

Faculty Advisor:  Thisbe Nissen

Advisory Editors:  Nancy Eimers, Steve Feffer, Richard Katrovas, William Olsen