Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon , and New York City.
6-629: Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called Tin House in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArthur as managing editor and developed the magazine with the help of two experienced New York editors, Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell . In 2005, Tin House expanded into the book division, Tin House Books . They also began to run a by-admission-only summer writers' workshop held at Reed College . Tin House
12-617: Is an American banking heir, political activist, publisher, and editor from Oregon . He is editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine and Tin House Books , the former publisher of Oregon Magazine , founder and treasurer of MediAmerica, Inc., and a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine . He serves on the board of directors of the journal New Perspectives Quarterly . His political and social writings have appeared in Oregon Humanities , Tin House , The Nation , The Oregonian , and Oregon Magazine . McCormack's investigative coverage of
18-781: The Rajneeshee movement was awarded a William Allen White Commendation from the University of Kansas and the City and Regional Magazine Association . As a political activist, McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart 's 1984 presidential campaign. He was chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon 's President's Council and a member of the Obama for President Oregon Finance Committee. Additionally, McCormack sits on
24-537: The Board of Overseers for Emerson College , and is a co-founder of the Los Angeles–based Liberty Hill Foundation . In February 2016, McCormack purchased The New Republic magazine from Chris Hughes . He received an A.B. from Harvard College and an MFA from the University of Oregon . In 2024, McCormack's chauffeurs were arrested for allegedly defrauding him of over $ 34 million over
30-647: Was closed after the release of its June 2019 20th-anniversary issue. Tin House published fiction, essays, and poetry, as well as interviews with important literary figures, a "Lost and Found" section dedicated to exceptional and generally overlooked books, "Readable Feast" food writing features, and "Literary Pilgrimages", about visits to the homes of writing greats. It was also distinguished from many other notable literary magazines by actively seeking work from previously unpublished writers to feature as "New Voices". Win McCormack Win McCormack
36-666: Was honored by major American literary awards and anthologies, particularly for its fiction. A story from the Summer 2003 issue, "Breasts" by Stuart Dybek , was featured in The Best American Short Stories for 2004 , and in 2006, "Window" by Deborah Eisenberg was a "juror favorite" in The O. Henry Prize Stories . In December 2018, Tin House announced that they were shuttering their literary magazine after 20 years, in order to focus on their book releases and workshops. The magazine
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