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Publishing the best contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art since 2009.
Literary journal based out of Charlotte, NC.

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“Your eyes are scooping sunsets.
Your thoughts spin yellow turnstiles.”

This week’s #flashbackfriday is an excerpt from “Love Starts” by Mario Duarte. It appeared in our Winter 2022 collection of Online Exclusives.

Read the full poem at the link in our bio.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Poetry #LitMag by @westtradereview

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We are seeking 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. We want powerful imagery and enjoy the juxtaposition of images in interesting and unexpected ways.

Send us work that uniquely explores October’s theme of shapeshifting.

November’s upcoming theme is gratitude.

Details at the link in our bio.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag #SubmissionsOpen #Poetry by @westtradereview

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“Those two windmills?

I ask. Turbines, you laugh.

Metal giants. Face to face.

Their blades racing.”

Excerpt from “Across I-68, from our Hampton Window,” by @achinnis. It is forthcoming in the Winter 2026 collection of Online Exclusives.

Read Ann's full poem at the link in our bio.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Poetry #LitMag #NewPoetry by @westtradereview

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Get inspired. Connect with other readers and writers.

Become an annual subscriber to our Substack, Roots & Words, and receive a complimentary copy of our spring print edition of West Trade Review or become a free subscriber to our newsletter.

Details at the link in our bio.

#AmWriting #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #LitMag #ReadingCommunity by @westtradereview

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The editors of West Trade Review seek essays that explore the idea of inheritances, or what you were given without asking for it.

We are not looking for family memoir, nor for essays on the mechanism of transmission. In other words, don't show us how it got to you. Show us how you carried it and how you dealt with what you didn't choose.

Details at the link in our bio.

#AmWriting #Essay #WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag by @westtradereview

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“The challenge, of course, is writing a racy poem that captures intimacy in its physical and emotional complexity.“

Looking for writing inspiration? Check out this generative poetry prompt from Allisa Cherry at the link in our bio.

#WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity #LitMag #AmWriting #Poetry by @westtradereview

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"I watched her unsteady shape

climb toward me

in the dark movie theater”

Excerpt from Richard Cummins’s “Stairs,” new on our Substack, Roots & Words.

Read it at the link in our bio.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag #NewWork #Poetry by @westtradereview

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We are seeking 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. We want powerful imagery and enjoy the juxtaposition of images in interesting and unexpected ways.

Send us work that uniquely explores October’s theme of shapeshifting.

November’s upcoming theme is gratitude.

Details at the link in our bio.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag #SubmissionsOpen #Poetry by @westtradereview

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“felt the taunting / trauma of uncertainty

and desire’s constant ache”

Excerpt of “Closure” by @homa_mojadidi. It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives.

Listen to Homa read the full poem at the link in our bio.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag #NewWriting #Poetry by @westtradereview

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Submissions open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

Before submitting, please review our submission guidelines at the link in our bio.

#WritingCommunity #LitMag #AmWriting #CallForSubmissions #SubmitWork by @westtradereview

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“I’ll be
an owl for you, swiveling on a
body tufted and soft.”

This week’s #flashbackfriday is an excerpt of “Morning love poem” by Hannah Miller. It appeared in our Summer 2024 collection of Online Exclusives.

Read at the link in our bio.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag #Poetry by @westtradereview

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“All of us skeletons walking, sitting like the man

at a cafe table, sunglasses set on the rim of his skull“

Excerpt from “Atlas” by Cynthia Good, new on our Substack, Roots & Words.

Read the full poem at the link in our bio.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag #NewWork #Poetry by @westtradereview

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