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"A Visit to Prison"
by Diane Gottlieb
"Problems of Living." by Sarah Haufrect
"FOR THE BODY AS CORNERED GAZELLE"
by Ja'Net Danielo
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Poetry
Fiction
Volume 15 Summer 2024 Collection of Online Exclusives
We’re excited to present the Summer 2024 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Jill Kitchen, Ja'Net Danielo, Ben Kline, Claire Scott, Tangie Mitchell, and Satya Dash among others; fiction by Sarah Haufrect; CNF by Diane Gotlieb.
Cover image by Igor Morski
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West Trade Review Visual Poetics: Latest Video Poem
"Oysters" by Robert McDonald
We're excited to present the premiere of the next video poem in our Visual Poetics Series. "Oysters" is written and read by Robert McDonald. Video edited by Sarah Edmonds. West Trade Review Visual Poetics developed by Ken Harmon.
McDonald's poem appears in the Summer 2024 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 Close August 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.
Send us something that engages us intellectually that also packs an emotional punch.
Contest judge is Elizabeth Gonzalez James.
See details here.
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Iron Oak Editions seeks full-length poetry, as well as fiction, and creative nonfiction manuscript queries
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Upcoming Theme: Borders & Border Crossings
Submissions Open August 15th
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 rockwall in a canyon, the internal lines we draw around our personality traits and behaviors.
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We’re thrilled to announce the results of our third annual poetry contest:
Grand Prize: Elizabeth Hickson ($1000 and publication in the Spring 2025 print edition)
Honorable Mentions: Andrew Payton and Marina Greenfield
Congratulations to all three poets!
Special thanks to contest judge Brian Turner.
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Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction 2024
We’re thrilled to announce the results of our annual fiction contest, the Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction:
Grand Prize: Jessie Carver ($1000 and publication in the Spring 2025 print edition)
Honorable Mention: Sarah Haufrect
Congratulations to both writers.
Special thanks to contest judge Margaret Malone.
