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"Notes for Young Composers" by Mikayla Schutt
"Generational Trauma" by Bailey Quinn
"The Pines"
by Jessica Leeder
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Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction
$1000
Submissions Are Open!
Send us your work. We are excited to read your best short fiction.
See submission guidelines here.
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Fiction
Poetry
Volume 13 Winter 2022 Edition
Available Now!
This issue features fiction by Emily Lynch, Jessica Leeder, and Emily Franks; poetry by Robert Wood Lynn, Thea Matthews, Jen Karetnick, Lauren Endicott, Fatima Shahid, Bailey Quinn, and Zaynab Bobi among others; Creative Nonfiction by Mikayla Schutt and Lissa Batista; Cover art by Milena Babić
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West Trade Review Visual Poetics: Latest Video Poem
"Hands Down" by Thea Matthews
We're excited to present the premiere of the next video poem in our Visual Poetics Series, "Hands Down," written and read by Thea Matthews. Video edited by Sarah Edmonds. West Trade Review Visual Poetics developed by Ken Harmon.
Matthews' poem appears in the winter 2022 collection of Online Exclusives available in early December.
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Are You Ready? Submissions Open February 1st!
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.
Poets are encouraged to "go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write," as Rilke urged. Simply creatively explore these ideas and intersectional spaces to find what emerges.
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BOOK REVIEW
"Violence and Domestication in Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates"
by Allisa Cherry
"Judas Goat is symphonic in its weaving of religion, sex, the animal kingdom, gendered expectations, the Deep South, a broken covenant between a mother and daughter, and, ultimately, love and marriage."
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