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"p a l l i a t i v e" by C. "Meaks" Meaker

"[SILENCE]" by Jessie Carver

"Eulogy Never Given" by Jennifer Pons

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Volume 16 Spring 2025 Print Edition

We’re excited to present the Spring 2025 print edition. It features poetry by Jennifer Pons, T.R. Poulson, Andrew Payton, Leila Farjami, and Han VanderHart, among others; fiction by Jessie Carver, Alyson Mosquera Dutemple, and others; CNF by Lilly Dancyger, C. "Meaks" Meaker, and others.

Cover image by Sophia Heymans.

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The 704 Prize for Flash Fiction

Submissions Open June 1st

Area code 704 is our home (the Charlotte Metro area), but our contest is open to anyone.

Send us a flash piece of up to 704 words that will engages the reader intellectually but also packs an emotional punch and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth.

For a model story, see Jessica Denzer's The Silence from our Spring 2022 print edition. It was selected for Best Small Fictions 2023 (Alternating Current Press).

Details here.

Trill: Poems That Resonate

A New Poem Each Week

We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave a reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human. We want powerful imagery and enjoy the juxtaposition of images in interesting and unexpected ways Look for a new theme each month and a new poem published on our website each week.

Click here for details and the list of upcoming themes.

Submissions Open August 1st. August's theme: Bravery

Vincent Perrone selected as Grand Prize Winner of the 2025 Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction

We are thrilled to announce the results of our fourth annual fiction contest. Vincent Perrone’s “A House Built of Color” was selected by Lucy Ives as the winner of the $1,00 prize. Vincent’s story will appear in the Spring 2026 print edition.

Frankie Concepcion's "Migration Patterns" & Hunter A. Allund's "Burial Home" were selected as Honorable Mentions.

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West Trade Review Prize for Poetry 2025

Ezra Fox’s “What the Darkness Render’s on the Question of Passing” was selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the $1,00 prize. Ezra’s poem will appear in the Spring 2026 print edition.

Lindsey Brown's "Thin Places" and Kyle Okeke's "In the Image of God" were selected as honorable mentions.

Details here.