A little more specific about the magazine itself, Coastal Shelf is a quarterly literary journal publishing in March, June, September and November. We’re erring on the side of less is more …

Coastal Shelf acquires first-time North American electronic rights for work published in Coastal Shelf Magazine as well as anthology rights to reprint the work in print for up to five years with …

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We wouldn’t have been able to get through nearly as much feedback without you so, a round of applause for the awesome Coastal Shelf Crew. This June issue is quite the wild ride from start …

All money generated will go towards paying Coastal Shelf authors, and each week in addition to doing generative exercises and prompts we will take a deep-dive on a different literary magazine.

Luanne Castle ‘s Kin Types (Finishing Line), a chapbook of poetry and flash nonfiction, was a finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Award. Her first poetry collection, Doll God (Aldrich), was …

Jason Arias lives on the Oregon coast. His debut short story collection, Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion,was published in 2018 by Black Bomb Books. Jason’s stories and essays …

Poetry “Apricots in the Old Country” by Esther Ra “Hung Up” by Alex Aldred “When Worlds Fall Apart” by J.B. Hill “all over again” by Savannah Williams “I was at the Four Seasons but I Kept …

~ Nothing Personal Is it the wind carousing the birch tree across the street? The reliable creak of the screen door, or the cats sleeping face in sunlight? Maybe it’s last night’s dream of your …

Of course a lot of people had no interest in doing this, even more forgot about it, but a few were kind enough to send us links when their pieces came out to link in this special “Ones That Got …