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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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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.
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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.
Themed Call: Borders & Border Crossings
Submissions Open for Fiction, Poetry, CNF, & Hybrid Work
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.
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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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