“Creativity, I am learning, is less a ladder than a season. It does not reward speed. It does not punish dormancy. It asks only that we return.”
Excerpt from "Four Lines at a Time" by Renee Dionne Mies, new on our Substack, Roots & Words.
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Our fifth annual poetry contest is now open. The grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition.
Submit by end of day on 3/8, and we’ll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (no extra charge for expedited response).
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Come visit us at the AWP bookfair in Baltimore March 5th-7th. We are located at table #843. The bookfair is open each day from 9am-5pm.
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Become an annual subscriber to our Substack, Roots & Words, and receive a complimentary copy of our spring print edition of West Trade Review or become a free subscriber for our monthly newsletter.
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Come visit us at the AWP bookfair in Baltimore March 5th-7th. We are located at table #843. The bookfair is open each day from 9am-5pm.
#writingcommunity #writersky #amwriting
Our fifth annual poetry contest is now open. The grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition.
Submit by end of day on 3/8, and we’ll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (no extra charge for expedited response).
Details:
buff.ly/wa9ETRd
#writingcommunity #writersky
“Creativity, I am learning, is less a ladder than a season. It does not reward speed. It does not punish dormancy. It asks only that we return.”
Excerpt from "Four Lines at a Time" by Renee Dionne Mies, new on our Substack, Roots & Words.
Read here:
buff.ly/LESCS2f
#writingcommunity #writersky
Come visit us at the AWP bookfair in Baltimore March 5th-7th. We are located at table #843. The bookfair is open each day from 9am-5pm.
#writingcommunity #amwriting #writersky #litmag #creativewriting #poetry #poetrycommunity
We want essays that explore creative life expansively conceived (broader than only literary).
We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
Details:
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Our 5th annual fiction contest is open. Grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition.
Submit by end of day on 3/8, and we’ll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (no extra charge for expedited response).
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Come visit us at the AWP bookfair in Baltimore March 5th-7th. We are located at table #843. The bookfair is open each day from 9am-5pm.
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“Anna Nygren’s English-language debut, blush / river / fox, bewilders and blurs the boundaries between familiar and unfamiliar language, the human and animal, and the body and the world.”
Excerpt from review of blush/river/fox by Anna Nygren, new from Milkweed Editions.
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Our fifth annual poetry contest is now open. The grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition.
Submit by end of day on 3/8, and we’ll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (no extra charge for expedited response).
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Join Iron Oak Editions at T843 for an in-booth signing with @dankraines.bsky.social at the AWP Bookfair on March 5th from 3:00–4:00 PM, and from 11:00-12:00 on March 6th & 7th. Copies of his new book Strap will be available.
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Come visit us at the AWP bookfair in Baltimore March 5th-7th. We are located at table #843. The bookfair is open each day from 9am-5pm.
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“Static is a herd. We press our faces close,
and the hiss becomes hooves: low, ancestral;”
Excerpt of “When the Bison Speak Static” by D Anson Lee. It appeared in the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
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Our 5th annual fiction contest is open. Grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition.
Submit by end of day on 3/8, and we’ll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (no extra charge for expedited response).
Details:
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We’re excited to present the cover of the upcoming Spring 2026 edition. “Weightless” is by Denis Sarazhin. The issue features fiction by Rebecca Makkai and Vincent Perrone; poetry by Mónica Gomery, Natalie Marino, and Sean Thomas Dougherty; CNF by Madison Ellingsworth.
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The judge for this year’s West Trade Review Prize for Poetry is Jason Schneiderman. He is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (Red Hen, 2024).
Details below. Submissions close March 15th.
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Seeking poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while referring to the things that make us human. We want powerful imagery and the juxtaposition of images in unexpected ways.
Mar.'s theme is movement.
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For those seeking personal narratives that challenge, heal, and inspire, the work within the new CNF anthology from Iron Oak Editions will leave a lasting impact.
It includes writing by @egjames.bsky.social , Athena Dixon, and Cris Mazza among others.
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“Eomma points to a shuttered store Toys StationaryHan
gul fading Remember Uncle bought you toy here.”
Excerpt from “Footprint” by Eric Baker. It appeared in the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
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“Poetry is a moral art, at bottom. Classically. And a sensual bath. You could say that, as a poet, I’m pressing my fingers into a Jaffa orange, eager for a spray that won’t come.“
Excerpt from interview with Dan Kraines, author of Strap, new from Iron Oak Editions
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“In Sunday stories, the hero was more like us:
a “little child,” who was supposed to lead the grown-ups,
if only they would follow.”
Excerpt of “The Dark Art of Hope” by @jameslilliefors.bsky.social, from the Winter 2025 Online Exclusives.
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The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived (broader than only literary).
Details at the link below:
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Our 5th annual fiction contest is open. Grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition.
Submit by EOD on 3/1, and we’ll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (no extra charge for expedited response).
Details: buff.ly/QiIQcSQ
#writingcommunity #writersky #amwriting
We are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived (broader than only literary).
We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
Details:
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“To call our time anything but dark would be a lie”
Excerpt from "Draglesque Prayer for the Gays and Theys Backstage at the Gig" by Rita Mookerjee @ritamookerjee.bksy.social. It appeared in the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
Details:
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