Tin House

I chose to review this literary magazine because the website was well put-together and aesthetically pleasing. After exploring literary magazines that had confusing websites and off-putting design, the user-friendly presentation of this literary magazine’s website and blog was refreshing and let me know that the publication cares a lot about what they produce. This professionalism extends over to the blog, which is set up in a way that focuses attention on the works published. Along with the posts written by staff, the blog also publishes posts containing essays written by various authors. These pieces seem autobiographical in nature. The staff at Tin House publishes posts containing interviews with writers, brief descriptions of what they are currently reading, and works from past issues.

Third Coast

Like Tin House's website, the layout of Third Coast’s website allows the reader to focus on the content. Each page prominently displays the cover of the current issue. I was interested to learn about the brief history of the magazine and that it is one of the few literary magazines to publish in four different genres. All of the information on their webpage was useful except for the “contests” page, which contained only a contest for which the deadline was January 15^th, more than two months ago. The blog for this literary magazine is not updated frequently and contains much of the same information provided on the main website. I thought that the fact that they posted the list of contributors for the current issue, along with the titles and genres of what each writer or poet had published, was impressive and, along with the easy-to-find submission guidelines, implies that the literary magazine values its contributors.