© 2018 West Trade Review
"p a l l i a t i v e" by C. "Meaks" Meaker
"[SILENCE]" by Jessie Carver
"Eulogy Never Given" by Jennifer Pons
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Poetry
Fiction
Volume 16 Spring 2025 Print Edition
We’re excited to present the Spring 2025 print edition. It features poetry by Jennifer Pons, T.R. Poulson, Andrew Payton, Leila Farjami, and Han VanderHart, among others; fiction by Jessie Carver, Alyson Mosquera Dutemple, and others; CNF by Lilly Dancyger, C. "Meaks" Meaker, and others.
Cover image by Sophia Heymans.
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER
Gain access to interviews with exciting emerging writers and book reviews of carefully curated upcoming and recent titles. You don't want to miss this and all our best contemporary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Subscribe to our newsletter now and learn about West Trade Review events, readings, and contests before anyone else.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Search Our Site
Creative Nonfiction
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
West Trade Review Prize for Poetry
Submit Now
Submissions are open for our fourth annual poetry contest from January 15-April 9, 2025. Grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2026 print issue.
This year's judge is Rick Barot, author of Moving the Bones (2024) and The Galleons (2020), both from Milkweed Editions.
See contest details here.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sign Up Today
WTR/Iron Oak Editions are a great way to connect with a community of writers, to sharpen writing skills, and to get feedback. Check out spring's prose and poetry offerings (both single-session and 6-week). Details here.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Subscribe to Our Newsletter and Stay Connected to Our Community
Submissions Open Until April 9th
The editors of West Trade Review seek daring, highly crafted works of creative nonfiction that engage with the ideas of mental health and mental well-being. We encourage essays that take risks in style, form, and content, and stand as powerful works of art alongside the stories they tell.
Details here.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Manuscript Queries Open
Iron Oak Editions seeks full-length poetry, as well as fiction, and creative nonfiction manuscript queries
Need Feedback on a Manuscript?
Meet our Editorial Critique Team and request feedback.
© 2020-2025 Iron Oak Editions
Stay Connected to Our Literary Community. Subscribe to Our Newsletter
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction
Submit Now
Submissions are open for our fifth annual fiction contest are open from January 15-April 9, 2025. Grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2026 print issue.
This year's judge is Lucy Ives, author of Life Is Everywhere: A Novel and, most recently, An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays, both published by Graywolf Press.
Submissions Open April 10, 2025
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 rock wall in a canyon, the internal lines we draw around our personality traits and behaviors.
Details here.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Interview with Michael McGriff
"It happens that my experiences of self are place- and character- and class-based, but image-making is the source of all poetry. Robert Bly's essay collection Leaping Poetry is the closest thing that describes my relationship to the image. He thinks of the image as a shared, human experience soaked in mystery, intuition, and a kind of collective subconscious. Sounds odd, but it describes my relationship to literature perfectly well.
