West Trade Review
@westtradereview.bsky.social
Publishing the best contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry since 2009. Literary magazine based out of Charlotte, NC.
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The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived.
We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
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We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
Details below:
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Looking for writing inspiration?
Check out this week’s poetry generative writing prompt from Claire Jussel at the link below:
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Check out this week’s poetry generative writing prompt from Claire Jussel at the link below:
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November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Looking for writing inspiration?
Check out this week’s poetry generative writing prompt from Claire Jussel at the link below:
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#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetry #writing #writingprompt #essay #creativewriting
Check out this week’s poetry generative writing prompt from Claire Jussel at the link below:
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“the first girl I kiss tastes nothing like my mirror”
Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday, “I always had a thing for the butch ones” by D. Pless. It appeared in the Spring 2022 print edition.
Read the full poem at the link below:
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Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday, “I always had a thing for the butch ones” by D. Pless. It appeared in the Spring 2022 print edition.
Read the full poem at the link below:
buff.ly/UWqgVuB
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“the first girl I kiss tastes nothing like my mirror”
Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday, “I always had a thing for the butch ones” by D. Pless. It appeared in the Spring 2022 print edition.
Read the full poem at the link below:
buff.ly/UWqgVuB
Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday, “I always had a thing for the butch ones” by D. Pless. It appeared in the Spring 2022 print edition.
Read the full poem at the link below:
buff.ly/UWqgVuB
Happy Thanksgiving! We extend our gratitude to our readers and to all of you that submit your work to our journal! Thank you for supporting our mission and for being a part of our literary community. May your Thanksgiving be filled with joy, love, and abundance.
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#HappyThanksgiving #writingcommunity
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! We extend our gratitude to our readers and to all of you that submit your work to our journal! Thank you for supporting our mission and for being a part of our literary community. May your Thanksgiving be filled with joy, love, and abundance.
#HappyThanksgiving #writingcommunity
#HappyThanksgiving #writingcommunity
Need honest, constructive criticism to maximize your manuscript’s potential? Consider working with our editors who can offer detailed developmental feedback. The @ironoakeditions.bsky.social critique team is here to help you refine your work.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Need honest, constructive criticism to maximize your manuscript’s potential? Consider working with our editors who can offer detailed developmental feedback. The @ironoakeditions.bsky.social critique team is here to help you refine your work.
Details below:
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The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived.
We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
Details below:
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#writingcommunity
We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
Details below:
buff.ly/BVsnAdn
#writingcommunity
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived.
We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
Details below:
buff.ly/BVsnAdn
#writingcommunity
We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts.
Details below:
buff.ly/BVsnAdn
#writingcommunity
We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.
Send us work that uniquely explores December’s theme of “letting go.”
Details below:
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Send us work that uniquely explores December’s theme of “letting go.”
Details below:
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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.
Send us work that uniquely explores December’s theme of “letting go.”
Details below:
buff.ly/5xi251l
#writingcommunity
Send us work that uniquely explores December’s theme of “letting go.”
Details below:
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“Whose hand
are you holding tonight? Is it flesh or glass
that turns the volume knob
at the base of the skull to the left?”
Excerpt of “Transistor” by Rivka Clifton. It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
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are you holding tonight? Is it flesh or glass
that turns the volume knob
at the base of the skull to the left?”
Excerpt of “Transistor” by Rivka Clifton. It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
buff.ly/QxRUWPc
#writingcommunity
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“Whose hand
are you holding tonight? Is it flesh or glass
that turns the volume knob
at the base of the skull to the left?”
Excerpt of “Transistor” by Rivka Clifton. It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
buff.ly/QxRUWPc
#writingcommunity
are you holding tonight? Is it flesh or glass
that turns the volume knob
at the base of the skull to the left?”
Excerpt of “Transistor” by Rivka Clifton. It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
buff.ly/QxRUWPc
#writingcommunity
Get inspired. Connect with other readers and writers.
Subscribe to our new Substack and receive our free monthly newsletter or become a monthly or annual subscriber for exclusive poems, essays, and community conversations.
Details at the link below:
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Subscribe to our new Substack and receive our free monthly newsletter or become a monthly or annual subscriber for exclusive poems, essays, and community conversations.
Details at the link below:
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November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Get inspired. Connect with other readers and writers.
Subscribe to our new Substack and receive our free monthly newsletter or become a monthly or annual subscriber for exclusive poems, essays, and community conversations.
Details at the link below:
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Subscribe to our new Substack and receive our free monthly newsletter or become a monthly or annual subscriber for exclusive poems, essays, and community conversations.
Details at the link below:
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“Tell me, how
old were you
when you woke in the night
and could not hear
frogs croaking beneath the patio furniture?”
Excerpt from “The Dreamworld Radicalizes” by @thatdamngudapati.bsky.social. It appeared in Fall 2025's Online Exclusives.
Listen below:
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#writingcommunity
old were you
when you woke in the night
and could not hear
frogs croaking beneath the patio furniture?”
Excerpt from “The Dreamworld Radicalizes” by @thatdamngudapati.bsky.social. It appeared in Fall 2025's Online Exclusives.
Listen below:
buff.ly/6JkrLuM
#writingcommunity
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“Tell me, how
old were you
when you woke in the night
and could not hear
frogs croaking beneath the patio furniture?”
Excerpt from “The Dreamworld Radicalizes” by @thatdamngudapati.bsky.social. It appeared in Fall 2025's Online Exclusives.
Listen below:
buff.ly/6JkrLuM
#writingcommunity
old were you
when you woke in the night
and could not hear
frogs croaking beneath the patio furniture?”
Excerpt from “The Dreamworld Radicalizes” by @thatdamngudapati.bsky.social. It appeared in Fall 2025's Online Exclusives.
Listen below:
buff.ly/6JkrLuM
#writingcommunity
Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below:
buff.ly/Ep1in3e
#writingcommunity
Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below:
buff.ly/Ep1in3e
#writingcommunity
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below:
buff.ly/Ep1in3e
#writingcommunity
Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below:
buff.ly/Ep1in3e
#writingcommunity
“Grey lingers like a bruise, nothing
risen from rot, skin pulped at the
knuckles, mind soft as spoiled fruit.”
Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday, “The Longest Winter” by Zoe Boyer. It appeared in the Fall 2023 collection of Online Exclusives.
Read here: buff.ly/vnifjeW
#writingcommunity
risen from rot, skin pulped at the
knuckles, mind soft as spoiled fruit.”
Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday, “The Longest Winter” by Zoe Boyer. It appeared in the Fall 2023 collection of Online Exclusives.
Read here: buff.ly/vnifjeW
#writingcommunity
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“Grey lingers like a bruise, nothing
risen from rot, skin pulped at the
knuckles, mind soft as spoiled fruit.”
Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday, “The Longest Winter” by Zoe Boyer. It appeared in the Fall 2023 collection of Online Exclusives.
Read here: buff.ly/vnifjeW
#writingcommunity
risen from rot, skin pulped at the
knuckles, mind soft as spoiled fruit.”
Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday, “The Longest Winter” by Zoe Boyer. It appeared in the Fall 2023 collection of Online Exclusives.
Read here: buff.ly/vnifjeW
#writingcommunity
Get inspired. Connect with other readers and writers.
Subscribe to our new Substack and receive our free monthly newsletter or become a monthly or annual subscriber for exclusive poems, essays, and community conversations.
Details at the link below:
buff.ly/WHesogZ
#writingcommunity
Subscribe to our new Substack and receive our free monthly newsletter or become a monthly or annual subscriber for exclusive poems, essays, and community conversations.
Details at the link below:
buff.ly/WHesogZ
#writingcommunity
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Get inspired. Connect with other readers and writers.
Subscribe to our new Substack and receive our free monthly newsletter or become a monthly or annual subscriber for exclusive poems, essays, and community conversations.
Details at the link below:
buff.ly/WHesogZ
#writingcommunity
Subscribe to our new Substack and receive our free monthly newsletter or become a monthly or annual subscriber for exclusive poems, essays, and community conversations.
Details at the link below:
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Along with our partners, @charlottelit, Goodyear Arts, and the Charlotte Poet Laureate, Jay Ward, we are proud to announce a year-long fellowship to support and expand the career of an emerging poet in the Charlotte, NC area. Applications accepted December 8th - 22nd.
Details:
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Details:
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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Along with our partners, @charlottelit, Goodyear Arts, and the Charlotte Poet Laureate, Jay Ward, we are proud to announce a year-long fellowship to support and expand the career of an emerging poet in the Charlotte, NC area. Applications accepted December 8th - 22nd.
Details:
buff.ly/6aD6P2G
Details:
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We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.
November theme is community/connection.
December theme is “letting go.”
Details below:
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#writingcommunity
November theme is community/connection.
December theme is “letting go.”
Details below:
buff.ly/5xi251l
#writingcommunity
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.
November theme is community/connection.
December theme is “letting go.”
Details below:
buff.ly/5xi251l
#writingcommunity
November theme is community/connection.
December theme is “letting go.”
Details below:
buff.ly/5xi251l
#writingcommunity
“Writing, like gardening, can be healing. By digging my hands into the dirt, I place roots or pull them.”
Excerpt from “Cultivation” by Rebecca Maine, exclusively on our Substack, Roots & Words.
Read the full essay at the link below:
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Excerpt from “Cultivation” by Rebecca Maine, exclusively on our Substack, Roots & Words.
Read the full essay at the link below:
buff.ly/i1bxQIn
#writingcommunity
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“Writing, like gardening, can be healing. By digging my hands into the dirt, I place roots or pull them.”
Excerpt from “Cultivation” by Rebecca Maine, exclusively on our Substack, Roots & Words.
Read the full essay at the link below:
buff.ly/i1bxQIn
#writingcommunity
Excerpt from “Cultivation” by Rebecca Maine, exclusively on our Substack, Roots & Words.
Read the full essay at the link below:
buff.ly/i1bxQIn
#writingcommunity
Need honest, constructive criticism to maximize your manuscript’s potential? Consider working with one of our professional editors who can offer detailed feedback. The @ironoakeditions.bsky.social editorial critique team is here to help.
Details below:
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#writingcommunity
Details below:
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November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Need honest, constructive criticism to maximize your manuscript’s potential? Consider working with one of our professional editors who can offer detailed feedback. The @ironoakeditions.bsky.social editorial critique team is here to help.
Details below:
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#writingcommunity
Details below:
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We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Cristina Querrer’s poetry manuscript, Disobedient Archives: A Radical Catalog. It is forthcoming from ironoakeditions.bsky.social in the Spring of 2027.
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#writingcommunity
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Cristina Querrer’s poetry manuscript, Disobedient Archives: A Radical Catalog. It is forthcoming from ironoakeditions.bsky.social in the Spring of 2027.
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived. We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals.
Details at the link below:
buff.ly/NUlMB6T
#writingcommunity
Details at the link below:
buff.ly/NUlMB6T
#writingcommunity
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived. We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals.
Details at the link below:
buff.ly/NUlMB6T
#writingcommunity
Details at the link below:
buff.ly/NUlMB6T
#writingcommunity
We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.
Send us work exploring November’s theme of community/connection!
December’s theme is letting go!
buff.ly/0QQqF2i
#writingcommunity
Send us work exploring November’s theme of community/connection!
December’s theme is letting go!
buff.ly/0QQqF2i
#writingcommunity
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We are looking for poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.
Send us work exploring November’s theme of community/connection!
December’s theme is letting go!
buff.ly/0QQqF2i
#writingcommunity
Send us work exploring November’s theme of community/connection!
December’s theme is letting go!
buff.ly/0QQqF2i
#writingcommunity
“through the hot murk I see him
stand
dripping and sunlit
his skin cherries
in the bitten air”
Excerpt from "Before He Leaves Me There" by McKinley Johnson. It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
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#writingcommunity
stand
dripping and sunlit
his skin cherries
in the bitten air”
Excerpt from "Before He Leaves Me There" by McKinley Johnson. It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
buff.ly/dB0mu2r
#writingcommunity
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“through the hot murk I see him
stand
dripping and sunlit
his skin cherries
in the bitten air”
Excerpt from "Before He Leaves Me There" by McKinley Johnson. It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
buff.ly/dB0mu2r
#writingcommunity
stand
dripping and sunlit
his skin cherries
in the bitten air”
Excerpt from "Before He Leaves Me There" by McKinley Johnson. It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
buff.ly/dB0mu2r
#writingcommunity
“Walker-Figueroa has curated an elusive and unifying tone that both aches, plays and emanates a heady decay."
Excerpt from the review of "Lazarus Species" by @madamesosostris.bsky.social, new from @milkweededitions.bsky.social.
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#writingcommunity
Excerpt from the review of "Lazarus Species" by @madamesosostris.bsky.social, new from @milkweededitions.bsky.social.
buff.ly/ebvy0fH
#writingcommunity
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“Walker-Figueroa has curated an elusive and unifying tone that both aches, plays and emanates a heady decay."
Excerpt from the review of "Lazarus Species" by @madamesosostris.bsky.social, new from @milkweededitions.bsky.social.
buff.ly/ebvy0fH
#writingcommunity
Excerpt from the review of "Lazarus Species" by @madamesosostris.bsky.social, new from @milkweededitions.bsky.social.
buff.ly/ebvy0fH
#writingcommunity
Join us for our first monthly book club discussion: Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume, Book 1, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.
Expect engaging discussions related to both thematic content and writerly craft. Space is limited.
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#writingcommunity
Expect engaging discussions related to both thematic content and writerly craft. Space is limited.
buff.ly/l6tWAZH
#writingcommunity
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Join us for our first monthly book club discussion: Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume, Book 1, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.
Expect engaging discussions related to both thematic content and writerly craft. Space is limited.
buff.ly/l6tWAZH
#writingcommunity
Expect engaging discussions related to both thematic content and writerly craft. Space is limited.
buff.ly/l6tWAZH
#writingcommunity
“I buzzed around the trailer keeping my back to him,
left and right, stacking trampoline
boxes, distributing weight.”
Excerpt from “MY BOSS’S BOSS’S BOSS ASKS IF I’M A TOP OR A BOTTOM” by John Muellner. It appeared in the Fall 2025 Online Exclusives.
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#writingcommunity
left and right, stacking trampoline
boxes, distributing weight.”
Excerpt from “MY BOSS’S BOSS’S BOSS ASKS IF I’M A TOP OR A BOTTOM” by John Muellner. It appeared in the Fall 2025 Online Exclusives.
buff.ly/0aQZEZg
#writingcommunity
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“I buzzed around the trailer keeping my back to him,
left and right, stacking trampoline
boxes, distributing weight.”
Excerpt from “MY BOSS’S BOSS’S BOSS ASKS IF I’M A TOP OR A BOTTOM” by John Muellner. It appeared in the Fall 2025 Online Exclusives.
buff.ly/0aQZEZg
#writingcommunity
left and right, stacking trampoline
boxes, distributing weight.”
Excerpt from “MY BOSS’S BOSS’S BOSS ASKS IF I’M A TOP OR A BOTTOM” by John Muellner. It appeared in the Fall 2025 Online Exclusives.
buff.ly/0aQZEZg
#writingcommunity
Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below:
buff.ly/Ep1in3e
#writingcommunity
Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below:
buff.ly/Ep1in3e
#writingcommunity
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below:
buff.ly/Ep1in3e
#writingcommunity
Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below:
buff.ly/Ep1in3e
#writingcommunity
Getting ready to submit to journals? Or maybe you've been hitting the rejection wall. If you're in the Charlotte area, you won't want to miss this panel where editors and readers offer tips on what gets you to "yes."
Register for this free event at the link below:
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Register for this free event at the link below:
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November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Getting ready to submit to journals? Or maybe you've been hitting the rejection wall. If you're in the Charlotte area, you won't want to miss this panel where editors and readers offer tips on what gets you to "yes."
Register for this free event at the link below:
buff.ly/PGwV2Cm
Register for this free event at the link below:
buff.ly/PGwV2Cm