good morning!! we are officially open for submissions for the season!! we’re so thrilled to be back at it and can’t wait to see what beautiful words you have in store for us. submit today!!!
Attention writers! West Branch is currently in search of a new Associate Poetry Editor! Do you love poetry? Do you have literary magazine experience? Apply now! We’d love to have you join us!
Attention writers! West Branch has a call for submissions for a special feature curated by
@caesarah_
! She is looking for work that evokes slow violence. Deadline for submissions is April 1st, we hope you’ll send some work along! Let us know if you have questions!
Attention writers! A reminder that the deadline to submit work for our upcoming issues is at the end of the week! It is free to submit and we pay all our contributors! We hope you’ll submit!
We're so very saddened to hear of the death of the late, great, Mary Oliver. In remembrance, we'd like to share one of our favorite poems of hers:
"They're tired of sleep.
They have a new idea.
They want to swim away
into the world."
Send us your bravest, your best. Submissions are open now through April 1st! You can read WEST BRANCH's digital issues and submit your work at our website
Thank you to everyone who has shared their poems & shown love to other poets recently! For the last week of
#NationalPoetryMonth
, we'd love it if you'd share a poem you can't stop reading. What are the poems you can't get out of your head? The ones you return to again and again?
Our winter issue just dropped!!! Issues are on their way to contributors and subscribers as we speak! Look at this stunning cover!!! We hope you’re on your way to securing your own copies!!
Send us your best! Submissions are open until April 1st. You can check out our online issues and submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation at our website:
our April 1st deadline is approaching!! you have until Monday to send us work!! we are in search of more nonfiction, mid length fiction (around 6,000 words), and translations!!!!
Congrats to all the finalists, including WB contributor Chen Chen (
@chenchenwrites
)! We're big fans of
@glass_poetry
, and wish you all the best of luck!
Final reminder that this themed call for submissions closes on Saturday April 1st! We hope you’ll send your work to
@caesarah_
! Let us know if you have questions!
hello fiction writers!! do we have pieces hitting that 15 page mark? like a sweet 7,000 words or so? we love our longer pieces over here but we’d love to see some medium lengths in the queue
WEST BRANCH wishes former associate editor Shubha Sunder many congratulations for being awarded the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award with her short story collection BOOMTOWN GIRL!
Attention writers! West Branch is also in search of an Associate Fiction Editor! This is a paid and remote editorship, we’d love to have you join our team! Apply today!
"He looks at me like how I did
when I first saw him. Like grease that bids
with the pot’s skin; the boiling over that gambles me
dry."
"The Art of Staying Alive" by
@jasonbcrawford
"a fresh song flares / something is listening / —the moon rises from within the Great River: there"
From "La Route Chante" by Varun Ravindran in WEST BRANCH 87 (2018), print edition.
#tbt
#fromtheWBarchives
It's that time of year again! We're thrilled to announce our nominees for the 2019
@PushcartPrize
: Paige Cooper, Corey Van Landingham, Leslie Harrison, Chen Chen (
@chenchenwrites
), Hayan Charara, & Amy Stuber (
@amy_moss_
). Congratulations!
You asked and we listened! We're separating our West Branch social media presence from the great work we're doing over at our
@StadlerCenter
handle. Help us spread the word, and stay tuned for more content!
“Sh, sh, make your voice a ghost. / make your way through the deep. Re- / member, though, that you’ll have to come / back.”
Read Sumita Chakraborty’s “Image 002” in West Branch 97, in print and online:
Today's a good day to share our news: we have a new Associate Fiction Editor, Lindsey Drager, who just won an
@NEAarts
Fellowship in Creative Writing! Welcome to the team, Lindsey! We're thrilled to have you!
Join us at AWP!!! Look at this all star lineup of readers!! We’ll have free food and drinks for all attendees so it’s a first come first served event! We hope to see you there!
"I wanted to figure out what, if anything, I wanted to keep. I ended up in a place of renunciation, of rejection and refusal..."
Read more of our interview with
@officialdonika
in the WEST BRANCH 98: Digital Issue here:
"one-hand, one single hand | triggers us | conceptualizes our body | defines what is exclusive in ownership | & art of naming | where i come from | one-hand snaps fingers to ward off evil | we say mo tàka òṣì dànù"
-
@aremuadebisi_
Take a mid-day break with one of our favorite stories! Guest Editor Roxane Gay (
@rgay
) curated the fiction for our W'18 Digital Issue, and we can't stop reading Brandon Taylor's (
@brandonlgtaylor
) story! Give "The Larger World" a read, ASAP:
Three. More. Days. to submit your best writing to West Branch! We read everything, we don't prefer one style over another, and we like to be surprised. Submissions close 4/1, and we'd love to read your work🌟
Reminder that the deadline to apply to these positions is tomorrow, May 1st! We hope you’ll apply to join our team! Let us know if you have questions! Workload for both is 2-4 hours weekly during high periods, 1-2 hours during slower months. These are paid positions!
"you want to dig for treasure and maybe / I just want to be buried either way / we need a shovel"
From "Four Snakes Makes Our Flag" by
@CTsalazar_
. Read this and two more poems by Salazar in WEST BRANCH 98, Winter 2022, print issue.
We��re extending our current reading period deadline to April 15th! Don’t miss out on the opportunity to send us your best poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
Submit here:
#poemswelove
"I am afraid of my own chemistry. Ions
moving like insects through my blood.
Salt infused with just enough oxygen
& carbon to make the poison palatable."
"Lithium" by
@tagreathouse
in
@HungerMtn
During this precarious time, we hope you'll keep writing and submitting your work to us at West Branch through 4/1. (That's in ten days!) Thank you for trusting us with your words, brilliant writers!💛
Though we always accept creative nonfiction, now is the time to submit! Our Spring 2022 issue will be exclusively CNF. To be considered for this issue, submit by December 1st. And don't be afraid to send your longform, reported essays. We're ready to delve into your writing!
Thank you for 400+ followers! We’re thankful for all the support we’ve received after separating our social media presence from our sister account,
@StadlerCenter
. There’s more to come from this space so keep an eye out and tell your friends!
dear poets! i’m the new poetry editor for West Branch
@WestBranchMag
this year! send us your poems, and tell me your deepest darkest fears in your cover letter! (just kidding. unless 👀)
Have you gotten your hands on a copy of our 101 issue yet? No? Head on over to our website (linked in our bio) and order a copy today! Look at this lineup!
Check out
@KatNuernberger
's review multi-book review "Building an Archive of Earth and Water
New Poetry That Excavates the Past to Imagine a Future" in our new issue.
Have you checked out the latest from West Branch Wired? Guest Editor Gabrielle Calvocoressi (
@rocketfantastic
) selected a suite of poems by
@mayabphillips
and
@mronda77
.
Give them a read:
Congrats to
@BhsniderBruce
, whose essay "Sestinamerica: Poetic Form in the Age of Trump" was named as a notable nonfiction piece in the 2022 Pushcart Anthology!
Published in WEST BRANCH, you can read Snider's essay here:
Our Managing Editor and Reviews Editor, Andrew Ciotola, is our longest-serving staff member currently. Here's what he's looking for when considering writing to be published. 💫
Could we be any more excited for West Branch Contributing Editor
@GarthGreenwell
? Could we be any prouder to have published some of his early work? Could we recommend CLEANNESS any more highly? The answer is no. No, we could not.
The latest issue of
@adroitjournal
is jam-packed with talent! We're particularly excited to see new work from WB contributors Donika Kelly (
@officialdonika
) and Rachel Mennies (
@rmennies
), and Stadler Associate Editor Leslie Sainz (
@lesannsai
)!
WEST BRANCH 99, Spring/Summer 2022, Digital Issue is here! Poetry, fiction, reviews, and a poetry retrospective on Ellen Bryant Voigt’s KYRIE—all online:
Big congrats to
@MikhailBazharov
, whose poem “Hunger,” originally published in West Branch 86, will appear in THE ECHO CHAMBER this October and has also been made into a short film by Sherng-Lee Huang.
#fromtheWBarchives
#tbt
#Hunger
Here’s a love poem set in Lubbock, TX, where I lived for about 3 years. Also featuring Cheez-Its & shoe shopping.
“The School of Logic” is in the recently released & stunning anthology What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy & Outrage in the Age of Trump, edited by Martín Espada 💛
Come meet next year's interim West Branch editor,
@Joe_Scapellato
at Booth 1745 at
#awp20
! (Bonus points to the first person to recognize him without the 'stache.)
WBWired 96 is live!
Poetry by
@CCitroPoet
& Megan Neville
Features:
-Maurice Carlos Ruffin (
@MauriceRuffin
), Fiction Selections
-Document(s), edited by Laura Villareal (
@earthandstars
)
-Protactile Poetry, translated/edited by John Lee Clarke (
@johnleeclark
)
Our Winter 2021 digital issue is live! ❄️
Check out a guest-edited selection of poetry by
@OrahMark
,
@noahbaldino
's feature At the Gate: Poems of Friendship, an interview with Amy Gustin, and fiction by
@rahkan
.
We try our best to stay on top of our contributors' good news, but we don't always catch everything. If you're a West Branch contributor and have something to promote, let us know! It's important to us that we continue to support our authors long after we've published them.