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"Herbes de Proveance" by Noah Dunn
"Starfuckers" by Emma Pacchiana
"Aubade for Longing"
by Shelia Black
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Poetry
Fiction
Volume 15 Fall 2024 Collection of Online Exclusives
We’re excited to present the Fall 2024 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Patrick Ramsay, Emma Bolden, and Alex Tretbar, among others; fiction by Emma Pacchiana; CNF by Noah Dunn.
Cover image by Ken Nwadiogbu
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West Trade Review Prize for Poetry Opens January 15th
Submissions are open for our fourth annual poetry contest from January 15-March 15, 2025. Grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2026 print issue.
This year's judge is Rick Barot, author of Moving the Bones (2024) and The Galleons (2020), both from Milkweed Editions.
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Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction Opens January 15th
Submissions are open for our fifth annual fiction contest are open from January 15-March 15, 2025. Grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2026 print issue.
This year's judge is Lucy Ives, author of Life Is Everywhere: A Novel and, most recently, An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays, both published by Graywolf Press.
Rebecca Brock Reads "Geologic Unconformity"
Rebecca Brock reads her poem, "Geologic Unconformity," forthcoming in our Winter 2025 edition (due out in January).
Listen now.
