Thin Air Magazine is accepting submissions for our 30th issue until October 15th, 2023! This year’s theme is Uprooted! We invite work that reflects on how personal and/ or collective uprooting transforms us. Consider: personal identity, physical locales, relationships, language, life circumstances, and all else. However, all art uproots us so you are welcome to submit your work regardless of how directly it speaks to this year’s theme. We accept fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words, or up to three poems. We are also seeking visual art submissions that might serve as the cover for Issue 30. View submission guidelines and submit via the Thin Air Magazine Submittable.

We charge a $3.00 submission fee for our print issue as well as Thin Air Online. This fee will be waived from October 9th to October 11th in celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day in an effort to minimize barriers and encourage work from marginalized writers.

We are also accepting submissions for the fourth annual Bird In Your Hands Prize. This contest celebrates and centers BIPOC writers. We accept submissions of under 500 words in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The winner will receive $500, be published in Issue 30 of Thin Air, and interviewed for Thin Air Online. The winner and runners-up will also be invited to read their work at the Northern Arizona Book Festival held in April 2024. First and second runners-up will be awarded an honorarium. Entries are limited to BIPOC writers, and will be accepted from September 15th to November 5th on Submittable. This year’s judge is National Poetry Series winner Kinsale Drake.