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Submissions are open for our second annual poetry contest, the West Trade Review Prize for Poetry. Grand prize is $1000 and publication in West Trade Review.
Submit by end of day on 5/30, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks.
Submissions are open for our second annual poetry contest, the West Trade Review Prize for Poetry. Grand prize is $1000 and publication in West Trade Review.
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TODAY: Poet Despy Boutris is joining us for a Twitter Q&A. Reply to this tweet with questions, and Despy will respond. Her poem, 'Moonless Pastoral', will be featured in our Spring Edition. See more of Despy at .
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We finally got to meet the talented Despy Boutris today at
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Her poem "Moonless Pastoral" appears in the spring 2021 edition of West Trade Review
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POETRY CONTEST SUBMISSIONS OPEN APRIL 15TH!
We are excited to announce our second annual poetry contest, the West Trade Review Prize for Poetry. The grand prize is $1000 and publication in West Trade Review.
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"I am not a martyr or hero either
only a combination of the rarest qualities"
Excerpt from "Confession" by Jordan Charlton. Listen to the full poem here:
Follow Jordan on Twitter
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We’re excited to present the Winter 2023 collection of Online Exclusives. It features work by @ckflan, @elinorann_poet, @ALampNamedBen, and @LeiaKBradley among others.
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We’re excited to present the fall 2023 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Denise Duhmael, Grant Chemidlin, and
@jasonbcrawford
among others; fiction by Sana Mufti; CNF by Megan Williams and Madeline Peterson.
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Congratulations to
@mistaholgate
and
@Annyball1
. We're immensely proud of both of you! Stephen Holgate's "Delroy and the Boys" can be found in our Fall 2021 edition, and Annabelle Ulaka's "My Grandmother's Feline Soul" can be found in our Summer 2021 edition.
NEW: PEN America announces 12 debut writers—chosen for originality, craft and subject urgency—as winners of the $2000 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
Winners will be published by in our anthology by
@CatapultStory
.
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"Deeply affecting and beautifully written, it is an important meditation on loss, love, belonging, and migration and highlights the convergence of the political and personal."
@rachellayown
on "A Body Across Two Hemispheres" by
@vic_toriawrites
It's really unfortunate when an individual does something like this. This is their message to me (after rejection)
@KenHarmon18
and one of our editor's comments (not visible to the person). We are an all-volunteer organization and take what we do very seriously.
We are happy to announce the results of our second annual fiction contest, The Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction.
Grand Prize Winner:
@ShannonSavvas
Honorable Mention:
@Corley_Longmire
Honorable Mention: Eugene Radice
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Despy Boutris speaks with Editor Ken Harmon in this episode of West Trade Review's PostScript Interview Series. Despy's poem "Moonless Pastoral" is featured in the Spring 2021 issue of West Trade Review.
Watch 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.
Submit before end of day 10/22, and we’ll respond in two weeks.
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WTR is happy to announce the results for our second annual poetry contest.
Grand Prize: Claire Scott ($1,000 and publication in WTR)
Honorable Mentions: Loisa Fenichell and Karan Kapoor
Congratulations to all three poets!
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“While Nuttall is unflinching in her presentations of the traumas suffered by her Indigenous characters, she also attends to the integrity, inventiveness, and grace of their responses.”
Excerpt from review of
@kotukutitihuia
Tauhou
@HouseofAnansi
We are proud to announce our 2021 Pushcart Nominees:
Nancy Woo, "Naysaying the Noise
Luke Johnson, "Larkspur"
Joanna Acevedo, "self portrait if the girl is on fire"
B. Bell Gurwitz, "Fourteen and Thirty-Four"
Seth Clabough, "The Cabin"
Spike Wong, "Glazed"
Our fiction contest opens January 15th. Grand prize is $1000 and publication in the spring 2025 print edition. Get prepared and send us your best work.
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The contest will be judged by
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.
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"It is like, how some experience/time seems
imaginary, like/the plot of folk tales,"
You can find Jordan Charlton's complete poem, "It Seems in America, Loving Yourself Means Forgetting History" here:
@JordanCharlton_
West Trade Review seeks poems that somehow engage with the intersection of social identity and place/environment/nature.
Submit by end of day on 6/25, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks.
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LOVE TO READ?
WTR SEEKS POETRY AND CNF READERS TO JOIN OUR TEAM!
Readers need:
- to be attentive & critical readers
- to be capable of meeting deadlines
- have 5-10 hours per week to devote
This is a volunteer & remote position.
kenny.harmon
@jwu
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West Trade Review seeks poems that somehow engage with the intersection of social identity and nature/environment/place.
Submit by end of day on 10/8, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks.
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The editors of West Trade Review seek creative nonfiction that's raw & vulnerable in their explorations of mental health and its intersection with accessibility.
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"Not all we do or feel is explainable.
On the beautiful open terrace, I spend the night letting my thoughts wander the cosmos."
From "The House in the Math Problem" by Mandira Pattnaik:
@MandiraPattnaik
Image by Gaultier Salles on Unsplash.
"I have lost everything, all I have
is this borrowed mouth, burrowed
bag of wintered bones:
tomorrow I will be gone
& nothing will die again."
Read Ernest Ògúnyẹmí's full poem, "Starry, starry night":
@ogunyemiernest
Image by Tomasz Zaczeniuk
"here the birds for joy are not dead
& their wings patrol the sky"
Excerpt from "Joy i" by Abdulkareem Abdulkareem forthcoming in our Fall 2022 collection of Online Exclusives available in early September.
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Tune in, writers!
We are excited to announce our first annual fiction contest, the Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction. Prize is $1000 & publication in WTR.
The contest will be judged by
@margaretmalone
.
Contest guidelines:
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The summer collection of Online Exclusives is now available and features work from authors such as
@WordpotterSull1
,
@ZacharyKluckman
,
@MandiraPattnaik
among others.
Cover art, "Eden's Garden," by Caitlin Truman Baker (IG: catlin_truman_baker)
"When I'm writing a poem or drafting a poem, there's something I can feel internally that I'm wanting the poem to explore."
Editor Ken Harmon speaks with Dare Williams in this episode of WTR's PostScript Interview series.
@Dare_Williams13
"Mother, you don’t know the sound of a good horn
the way it slices through night with its groan,
how it spills through the city in search of a partner."
Excerpt from "Blue in Green" by Dare Williams. Listen to the full poem here:
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"I too, wondered what costs had flown me to this place if I didn’t belong,
wondered, eyes wet with questions, if I would ever live to tell."
Listen to poet
@karaknick
read her poem "A Study on Descending" forthcoming in the Spring 2022 edition of WTR.
The West Trade Review Prize for Poetry opens Jan 15. The grand prize is $1000 and publication.
Our judge is
@turners_lens
; his poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, & National Geographic.
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"From Melissa’s DIY-resurrection ritual, to a dead celebrity prom and karaoke in hell, Lozada-Oliva has created a feminist, post-modern, pop cultural Divine Comedy."
Read Corrine Watson's full review of Dreaming Of You:
@ellomelissa
@astrahousebooks
“Teach me, what is it to love the unholding center, teach me,
what is it to lay tradition's head gentle in your lap?”
An excerpt from Mihir Bellamkonda’s “The Dinner Party,” available now in our Summer 2023 collection of Online Exclusives.
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