Now on sale at area bookstores, the biannual, soft-cover journal is edited by graduate students in WMU's master's and doctoral English programs. The latest issue features 35 poems, five fiction stories and one non-fiction article. Also included is a story by Bonnie Jo Campbell, a recent WMU graduate, whose first collection of short stories won the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in short fiction and will be published next year by the University of Massachusetts Press. Other writers whose work appears in the issue are Jim Daniels, Mark Jarman, Peter Johnson, Malena Morling, Kelly Simon, Charles Harper Webb and Dallas Wiebe. In addition, the issue contains book reviews for the first time, offering comment on 11 books by various authors.
Third Coast continues to receive praise from readers and writers alike.
There's writing in here with teeth, heart, and strength. Graduate students Scott Bade, Darrin Doyle, Janice Robertson, and Tony Spicer edited the magazine with the help of a number of undergraduate and graduate students who volunteered hundreds of hours. Invitations to submit are included in each issue and manuscripts are welcome throughout the year.