Thin Air Online

Open now for fiction, nonfiction, other work, and poetry.

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Thin Air publishes a themed annual print issue and year-round online work across literary genres and experimental forms.

Response time info: 3-5 months

Read the full guidelines at thinairmagazine.org↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: No payment.

Open to: Submissions are open to all; work must be unpublished.

Thin Air Online is open year-round for unpublished fiction up to 5,000 words; the magazine welcomes playful, serious, and unconventional work and aims to respond within 3-5 months.

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirements$3.00 reading fee, waived upon request at the editors’ discretionPays: No payment.

Open to: Must not be affiliated with Northern Arizona University within the last 7 years; work must be unpublished.

Issue 33 is open for fiction on the theme “The Oasis”; submissions may be up to 3,000 words, unpublished, and read blind.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: No payment.

Open to: Submissions are open to all; work must be unpublished.

Thin Air Online is open year-round for unpublished nonfiction up to 5,000 words; the magazine welcomes playful, serious, and unconventional work and aims to respond within 3-5 months.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirements$3.00 reading fee, waived upon request at the editors’ discretionPays: No payment.

Open to: Must not be affiliated with Northern Arizona University within the last 7 years; work must be unpublished.

Issue 33 is open for nonfiction on the theme “The Oasis”; submissions may be up to 3,000 words, unpublished, and read blind.

otherEligibility requirementsPays: No payment.

Open to: Submissions are open to all; work must be unpublished.

Thin Air Online accepts unpublished hybrid or genre-defying written work up to 5,000 words and welcomes unconventional forms; it aims to respond within 3-5 months.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirements$3.00 reading fee, waived upon request at the editors’ discretionPays: No payment.

Open to: Must not be affiliated with Northern Arizona University within the last 7 years; work must be unpublished.

Issue 33 is open for poetry on the theme “The Oasis”; submit up to three poems totaling five or fewer pages, unpublished and read blind.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: No payment.

Open to: Submissions are open to all; work must be unpublished.

Thin Air Online is open year-round for unpublished poetry in batches of up to three poems; the magazine welcomes playful, serious, and unconventional work and aims to respond within 3-5 months.

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