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"Threads" 
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"IT FELL FROM A TREE." by Tamara Panici
"Surfacing" 
by Annie Bashaw
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Volume 15 Spring 2024 Print Edition

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This issue features fiction by Michael Nath, Annie Bashaw, and Shannon Savvas; poetry by Richard Blanco, Luke Johnson, jason b. crawford, Tamara Panici, Joshua Nguyen, and Nik Moore; CNF by Athena Dixon, Lisa Knopp, and Elizabeth Gonzalez James; visual art by Patrick Dougher; interviews with Richard Blanco, Athena Dixon, and Michael Nath.

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West Trade Review Visual Poetics: Latest Video Poem

"[Take the gravel underneath my feet]" by Alan May


We're excited to present the premiere of the next video poem in our Visual Poetics Series. "[Take the gravel underneath my feet]" is written and read by Alan May. Video edited by Sarah Edmonds. West Trade Review Visual Poetics developed by Ken Harmon.

May's poem appears in the Winter 2023 collection of Online Exclusives


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We want work that make the reader think and feel, work that humbles us with its joy, humor, embarrassment, anger, hope, grief, or all of the above, and gravitate toward writing that has something important to teach us--something that readers really need to know, but might not have understood this was a need until the last word of the work.  Details here.
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Special Themed Section Spring 2025 Print

West Trade Review invites submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and hybrid work for an upcoming issue with a special section on the theme of Ecstasy in all its forms. Send us what sends you.

Submissions open April 1st to August 1st 2024.

See details here.
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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 everyone. Submit a flash fiction piece under 704 words.

Grand Prize $704

Send us something that engages us intellectually that also packs an emotional punch.

See Jessica Denzer's "The Silence" from our Spring 2022 print edition for a model story. 

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Iron Oak Editions seeks full-length poetry, as well as fiction, and creative nonfiction manuscript queries 

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Ecobloomspaces Submissions Open April 15th
Final Opportunity to Submit

West Trade Review seeks poems that somehow engage with the intersection of social identity and nature/environment/place. Specifically, we'd like to read poems that explore the relationship between place/environment/nature and gender, sexual identity, race, ethnicity, disability, and/or social class.  


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