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"The Appointment" by Catherine Kelley
"Summerache" by Carissa Jean
"La Línea" by Melody Wilson
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Poetry
Fiction
Volume 15 Winter 2024 Collection of Online Exclusives
We’re excited to present the Winter 2024 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by KB Brookins, Dasia Moore,, Taylor Franson Thiel, and Vivian Faith Prescott, among others; fiction by Carissa Jean; CNF by Catherine Kelley.
Cover image by Mofolúṣọ́ Elúdire
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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.
See contest details here.
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The editors of West Trade Review seek creative nonfiction that engages with the ideas of mental health and mental well-being.
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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.
Submissions Open April 1, 2025
West Trade Review invites submissions of your best poetry, fiction, essays, and hybrid work that delves into the concept of borders in all their incarnations: the often invisible boundaries between countries and cultures, the geographically clear line of the forest’s edge or sheer rock wall in a canyon, the internal lines we draw around our personality traits and behaviors.
Details here.
