Respected literary journal Tin House will cease publication next year with its 20th anniversary issue in June, but Tin House Books and the Tin House Workshop will continue. In an announcement posted on the company's website, publisher and editor-in-chief Win McCormack wrote: "I'm grateful to Rob Spillman, Elissa Schappell, Holly MacArthur and the entire magazine staff, current, and past, for their part in creating a vital, versatile outlet and hosting important literary and cultural conversations over the past 20 years. It has been a remarkable run."
McCormack cited the current costs of producing a literary magazine as instrumental in his decision to shift resources to the company's other two divisions: Tin House Books and the Tin House Workshop. "This will allow the workshop to create more scholarship opportunities for its participants and expand the scope of what types of classes it offers, while our book division will look to publish more titles in the coming years. We will continue to publish original fiction, nonfiction and poetry online at tinhouse.com, with a focus on new voices, a cause the magazine championed throughout its twenty-year history."
Tin House editor Spillman commented: "As a co-founding editor, with Elissa Schappell, I am proud of the magazine's dedication to promoting new voices and lifting up overlooked ones, for leading the way in gender balance among literary magazines, and for expanding the ethos of inclusivity and genre-bending to our book division and summer workshop. It has been an honor to work with such smart, dedicated colleagues, and to publish the most exciting, vital voices of our time. Twenty years feels like the right time to be stepping away and moving on to new adventures. I look forward to focusing on other opportunities at the intersection of art and activism."