Welcome to Thin Air, it’s high up here.

Thin Air proudly cultivates a Flagstaff-based, MFA student-led literary community with global reach to publish emerging authors with intriguing ideas. Based at 7,000 feet out of Northern Arizona University, we have no choice but to invite work that takes us to dizzying heights with its innovation and insight. We aspire to foster diversity, authenticity, surprise, and excitement while making the literary world accessible to everyone. Three decades in, we still can’t forget these words from our founders: “All too often, the literary world takes itself too seriously…Thin Air hopes to change that.”

Our projects include:

• Thin Air Magazine, a print lit magazine issued every spring made up of awe-inspiring work authored outside of NAU. This year’s theme is Uprooted (intriguing, right? we know.)
• Thin Air Online, a collection of web-exclusive literary work open to the NAU community and beyond. 
• Thin Air Community Blog, where you’ll find interviews, reviews and other lit community content.

The printing of Issue 30 and support for Thin Air Magazine events in April 2024 was and is made possible by the Creative Flagstaff Innovation & Capacity grant. Thank you to our funders: Bed, Board and Beverage (BBB) Tax Revenues, the City of Flagstaff, and Creative Flagstaff. Visit Flagstaff365.com for a calendar of community events.