West Trade Review ★Work published here has won or been selected for: Best American Essays, Best Debut Short Stories (PEN/Rob…, Best of the Net.
Open now for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Last checkedWest Trade Review is a quarterly literary journal publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, with regular reading periods from April 1 to August 1 and August 15 to December 15.
Response time info: Typically within 3 months, often within one month or less
Read the full guidelines at westtradereview.com↗Submission calls
Literary, character-driven short fiction with psychological depth; no genre pieces. Submit one prose piece of up to 5,000 words. Regular reading periods are April 1-August 1 and August 15-December 15; writers may submit once per reading period.
Personal essays, memoir, literary journalism, and lyric essays that blend style with substance and reach beyond the personal; submit one piece of up to 6,000 words. Regular reading periods are April 1-August 1 and August 15-December 15; writers may submit once per reading period.
Poems with powerful imagery, unexpected juxtapositions, and language that refers back to universal human experience. Submit up to 5 poems as one Microsoft Word file. Regular reading periods are April 1-August 1 and August 15-December 15; writers may submit once per reading period.
Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction; contest window is January 15-March 15.
West Trade Review Prize for Poetry; contest window is January 15-March 15.
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