Thin Air Magazine

Thin Air Magazine Thin Air is a non-profit literary and art magazine run by graduate students of Northern Arizona University's English Department.

Thin Air is a non-profit literary publication of the Northern Arizona University English Department. The magazine is run entirely by English graduate students dedicated to the edgiest contemporary writing and art. We accept submissions in Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Art from anyone and everyone not affiliated with NAU. Our reading period will reopen in August 2015 for the 2016 print edition. Online submissions for flash nonfiction & fiction plus art and video essay/cinepoetry are now open!

Thin Air Magazine makes our first appearance at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend. Catch us March 14-15 from 9:3...
03/14/2026

Thin Air Magazine makes our first appearance at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend. Catch us March 14-15 from 9:30-5:30pm at booth #213!

With only two hours left at AWP catch us at booth  #406!! We have our newest issue TAM32, backorder copies, mystery bund...
03/07/2026

With only two hours left at AWP catch us at booth #406!! We have our newest issue TAM32, backorder copies, mystery bundles, stickers and bookmarks, and we are selling out of our new punk goose shirt! You might even catch a glimpse of our goose mascot!

Taking the Skeletons in Your Closet Out for a Walk, hosted by  --Join us this Thursday, May 22 at Beaver Street Theatre ...
05/17/2025

Taking the Skeletons in Your Closet Out for a Walk, hosted by
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Join us this Thursday, May 22 at Beaver Street Theatre (11 South Beaver St.) from 5-6:30pm for a generative, metaphor-driven writing session that will help writers access emotionally resonant material without falling into trauma dump or clichΓ© territory. Participants will generate and share CNF work. Through playful language, personification, and metaphor-mashing, we will reframe hard truths with humor, emotional clarity, and creative weirdness.
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has been published in the Ocotillo Review, Human Obscura, Telepoem Booth, N**e Bruce Review, Tiny Spoon Literary Magazine, Narrow Chimney Reading Series Anthology, Wizards in Space Literary Magazine, Menteur Magazine, Dying Dahlia Press and twice in Thin Air Magazine among others. You can find her micro chapbook Who Will Love Me in series 6 of RinkyDink Press. She also coaches literary readings through ShiverSong LLC. King runs Nightlife, a free weekly zoom editing circle with writers from various cities.

Join us this Friday for Reading, Writing, Editing... Now What? πŸ“šπŸ“πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»This panel + Q&A features Laura Brady, Reece Gritzma...
04/08/2025

Join us this Friday for Reading, Writing, Editing... Now What? πŸ“šπŸ“πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»

This panel + Q&A features Laura Brady, Reece Gritzmacher, Khara House, Clare Magneson, and Tyler Mitchell, who will discuss how to transfer one's literary skills into a variety of professonal contexts.

This event is sponsored and made possible by Lumberjack Thrives. It's also our little part of the , which will feature over 30 other free and public literary events around Flagstaff this weekend. We hope you join us!

To all the readers and writers at  , swing by T312 and say hi!
03/28/2025

To all the readers and writers at , swing by T312 and say hi!

Please join us this coming Tuesday (March 18) for two free community events, both held at  ✍️--Starting at 5pm,  will le...
03/13/2025

Please join us this coming Tuesday (March 18) for two free community events, both held at ✍️
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Starting at 5pm, will lead our fourth Silly Goose Writing Club of the year. Zach's timely workshop is titled, "Political Poetry: Crafting Personal Writing about Public Crises." Writing materials will be provided for all attendees πŸͺΏ
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Zach Semel (he/him) is a poet, essayist, and Pushcart Prize nominee with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Northern Arizona University. Some of his previous work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Salamander, the Brevity Blog, CutBank: All Accounts & Mixture, Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, The Core Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Wordgathering, FreezeRay Poetry, and other places. His hybrid chapbook Let the tides take my body was awarded the 2021 May Day Mountain Prize by Hunger Mountain.
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At 7pm, our staff will guest host , the incredible weekly poetry open mic created by our own EIC from 2020: ! We hope you will join us for this afternoon of generative writing and an evening of community readings πŸ“š

Did you see our recent interview with ? Check it out now on thinairmagazine.org! Link is in the bio!
11/13/2024

Did you see our recent interview with ? Check it out now on thinairmagazine.org! Link is in the bio!

It's your last chance to submit for Issue 31! And all submissions are FREE!! Submit today!---
10/31/2024

It's your last chance to submit for Issue 31! And all submissions are FREE!! Submit today!

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There's only a few days left to submit and until we close on October 31st all submissions are FREE!!! We are seeking wor...
10/29/2024

There's only a few days left to submit and until we close on October 31st all submissions are FREE!!! We are seeking works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art to feature in Issue 31 of Thin Air Magazine.

The theme of this year's issue is Metamorphosis.

Don't miss out! Submit today!

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Submissions close October 31st! All nonfiction submissions are free until then! Submit your fiction, nonfiction, poetry,...
10/26/2024

Submissions close October 31st! All nonfiction submissions are free until then! Submit your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art now!!

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10/24/2024
There's only 16 more days before submissions close for Issue 31 of Thin Air Magazine! We're seeking works of fiction, no...
10/15/2024

There's only 16 more days before submissions close for Issue 31 of Thin Air Magazine! We're seeking works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Visit the link in our bio for more information. Submit now before it's too late!

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Thin Air is a non-profit literary publication of the Northern Arizona University English Department. The magazine is run entirely by English graduate students dedicated to contemporary writing and art. We accept submissions in Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Art from anyone and everyone not affiliated with NAU. We are currently reading for the 2019 Spring Issue! Submit at thinair.submittable.com