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Tin House Launches BUY A BOOK, SAVE A BOOKSTORE! Tin House Implements New Policy for Fall Reading Period. Unsolicited Submissions must be Accompanied by a Receipt for a Hardcover or Paperback from a Real-Life Bookstore.
PORTLAND, OREGON (June 30, 2010) In the spirit of discovering new talent as well as supporting established authors and the bookstores who support them, Tin House Books will accept unsolicited manuscripts dated between August 1 and November 30, 2010, as long as each submission MORE Writers who cannot afford to buy a book or cannot get to an actual bookstore are encouraged to explain why in haiku or one sentence (100 words or fewer). Tin House Books and Tin House magazine will consider the purchase of e-books as a substitute only if the writer explains: why he or she cannot go to his or her neighborhood bookstore, why he or she prefers digital reads, what device, and why.
Writers are invited to videotape, film, paint, photograph, animate, twitter, or memorialize in any way (that is logical and/or decipherable) the process of stepping into a bookstore and buying a book to send along for our possible amusement and/or use on our Web site.
Tin House Books will not accept electronic submissions. Tin House magazine will accept manuscripts by mail or digitally. The magazine will accept scans of bookstore receipts.
AL MANUSCRIPTS WITHOUT RECEIPT OR EXPLANATION WILL BE RETURNED UNREAD IN SASE.
Please send manuscripts to: Save a Book Tin House Books 2617 NW Thurman Portland, OR 97209
or
Save a Book Tin House Magazine PO Box 10500 Portland, OR 97210
Reading at San Antonio Barnes & Noble with Tom Grimes, author of Mentor: A Memoir Tom Grimes will be reading from Mentor: A Memoir at Barnes & Noble at 15900 La Cantera Parkway in San Antonio on September 2 at 7:00 pm. 15900 La Cantera Parkway
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