“Finishing Afterlight feels less like an attention than like being held under.” Excerpt from review of Caleb Nolen’s Afterlife, new from University of Utah Press. Read the full review at the link below: buff.ly/g14ufzZ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Bookstagram #LitMag #Poetry

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. July’s theme is unraveling. August's upcoming theme is turning points. buff.ly/rU7YVAe #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

“I still think about dreams, just not the way I used to.“ Excerpt from “A Mile of Asphalt Added to the Road” by Robert A. Cozzi, new on our Substack, Roots & Words. Read the full essay at the link below: buff.ly/4YVmxci #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag #NewWriting #Essay

“I have learned the dead continue to change / after death.” Excerpt from Svetlana Litvinchuk’s “It was only in the after that my father took on his gentleness.” It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. buff.ly/zRU1Ila #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

We are excited to reveal the cover of Motherhood, and the Places Between by Jacqueline Kolosov, due out October 6, 2026 from @ironoakeditions.bsky.social. This is the book readers will press into the hands of the women they love most. Preview and preorder: buff.ly/BnvbAuU #WritingCommunity

“I needed a new name and a flat chest so I migrated south to a fallow deer farm.” Excerpt from “Fallow” by Blake HC Mihm. It appears in the Summer 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen to Blake read his essay at the link below: buff.ly/8dA6j8y #WritngCommunity #AmWriting #EssayWriting

Submissions close soon. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/oF27KgD #WritingCommunity #LitMag #AmWriting #CallForSubmissions #SubmitWork

Send us flash fiction up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and teaches us about a deep human truth. $704 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition of West Trade Review will be awarded to the winning story. buff.ly/SJEmyoA #WritingCommunity

“For the last time in our lives I watched my father’s body as he slept And listened to the lizard’s tail” Excerpt from Miles Waggener’s “Hotel Fray Marcos. It appears in the Summer 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Details below: buff.ly/p8yJKzP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. Details: buff.ly/92dNiU1 #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #AmWriting #LitMag #CallForSubmissions

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: buff.ly/ywzXvZN #AmWriting #WritingLife

We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts and creative life, etc. Details at the link below: buff.ly/TXVCDva #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Essays #LitMag

“I  knew it would force me to look at painful memories. I didn’t know it would require questioning the stories I’d built around them.“ Excerpt from “Chisa Doesn’t Write” by Chisa Iwuagwu Lehane Read the full essay at the link below: buff.ly/lNXk2JF #WritingCommunity #AmWiting #LitMag

“I wanted to become what he had been by repeating what he had done, because if I succeeded I thought that it would for a while put off that laborious task of finding out what I was.” Excerpt from Elizabeth J. Wenger’s “Fighting the Bull.” Read the full piece: buff.ly/8sWa8jH #WritingCommunity

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. Details: buff.ly/92dNiU1 #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #AmWriting #LitMag #CallForSubmissions

“I’m not so jaded as to say that relationships are cults, but like cults they do have their own language.” Excerpt from this week’s #FlashbackFriday, C. Meeks Meaker’s “palliative.” It appeared in the Spring 2025 print edition. Read at the link here: buff.ly/N8syjHo #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. Details: buff.ly/92dNiU1 #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #AmWriting #LitMag #CallForSubmissions

“I wanted to become what he had been by repeating what he had done, because if I succeeded I thought that it would for a while put off that laborious task of finding out what I was.” Excerpt from Elizabeth J. Wenger’s “Fighting the Bull.” Read the full piece: buff.ly/8sWa8jH #WritingCommunity

We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts and creative life, etc. Details at the link below: buff.ly/TXVCDva #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Essays #LitMag

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: buff.ly/ywzXvZN #AmWriting #WritingLife

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. Details: buff.ly/92dNiU1 #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #AmWriting #LitMag #CallForSubmissions

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. July’s theme is unraveling. August's upcoming theme is turning points. buff.ly/1j6GNm8 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

“I  knew it would force me to look at painful memories. I didn’t know it would require questioning the stories I’d built around them.“ Excerpt from “Chisa Doesn’t Write” by Chisa Iwuagwu Lehane Read the full essay at the link below: buff.ly/lNXk2JF #WritingCommunity #AmWiting #LitMag

“For the last time in our lives I watched my father’s body as he slept And listened to the lizard’s tail” Excerpt from Miles Waggener’s “Hotel Fray Marcos. It appears in the Summer 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Details below: buff.ly/p8yJKzP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

Send us flash fiction up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and teaches us about a deep human truth. $704 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition of West Trade Review will be awarded to the winning story. buff.ly/SJEmyoA #WritingCommunity

“The thing killing or the thing killed. He said that the whole fight was an art, and perhaps I missed the art in seeing only the death and not the torture.” Excerpt from “Fighting the Bull” by Elizabeth Wenger in the Summer 2026 Online Exclusives. buff.ly/GNRPkro #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Submissions open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/OatgeLl #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

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. July’s theme is unraveling. August's upcoming theme is turning points. buff.ly/1j6GNm8 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

“Wait here, boy— And just like that, My father was gone.” Excerpt from “Hotel Fray Marcos” by Miles Waggener. It appears in the Summer 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen to Miles read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/2urkI9R #WritingCommunity #AmReading #WriterSky

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. buff.ly/ywzXvZN #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts and creative life, etc. Details at the link below: buff.ly/99wNfeC #AmWriting #Essay #WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

We are proud to reveal the cover of Spine of the Hug: Poems by Alec Hershman, publishing September 15, 2026 from @ironoakeditions.bsky.social. Learn more and preorder now below: buff.ly/1NjcFH5 Cover art by Luis Xertu #WritingCommunity #NewPoetry #SmallPress #CoverReveal #SpineOfTheHug

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. Details at the link below: buff.ly/SJEmyoA #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #AmWriting #LitMag #CallForSubmissions

“Better find my pound of flesh the world owes me.” Excerpt from Jordan Bailey’s “Hip Hop Contrapuntal for Dummies.” It appears in the Summer 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read Jordan’s full poem at the link below: buff.ly/ftlQG5p #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Poetry

Submissions open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/1nXqAc7 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CallForSubmissions #SubmitWork #LitMag

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“...we want to swallow the sun and believe it to be possible” Excerpt from this week’s #FlashbackFriday, Carissa Jean’s story, “Summerache.” It appeared in the Winter 2024 collection of Online Exclusives. Read it at the link below: buff.ly/VALt7gS #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. Details at the link below: buff.ly/SJEmyoA #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #AmWriting #LitMag #CallForSubmissions

We are proud to reveal the cover of Spine of the Hug: Poems by Alec Hershman, publishing September 15, 2026 from @ironoakeditions.bsky.social. Learn more and preorder now below: buff.ly/1NjcFH5 Cover art by Luis Xertu #WritingCommunity #NewPoetry #SmallPress #CoverReveal #SpineOfTheHug

“Better find my pound of flesh the world owes me.” Excerpt from Jordan Bailey’s “Hip Hop Contrapuntal for Dummies.” It appears in the Summer 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read Jordan’s full poem at the link below: buff.ly/ftlQG5p #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Poetry

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. buff.ly/ywzXvZN #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts and creative life, etc. Details at the link below: buff.ly/99wNfeC #AmWriting #Essay #WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

“Wait here, boy— And just like that, My father was gone.” Excerpt from “Hotel Fray Marcos” by Miles Waggener. It appears in the Summer 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen to Miles read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/2urkI9R #WritingCommunity #AmReading #WriterSky

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. July’s theme is unraveling. August's upcoming theme is turning points. buff.ly/1j6GNm8 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. Details at the link below: buff.ly/SJEmyoA #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #AmWriting #LitMag #CallForSubmissions

“[The poem] expresses the predicament of writing from my own body, my own breath, in the face of insurmountable disaster.” Read about Dan Kraines’s poem, “Dead Sea Scroll,” at the link below: buff.ly/Sm6D5bW #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SmallPress #Bookstagram #Poetry

Submissions open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our submission guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/1nXqAc7 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CallForSubmissions #SubmitWork #LitMag

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. July’s theme is unraveling. August's upcoming theme is turning points. buff.ly/yjFQkYg #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

“I was called  by some angel to rise. But I tapped my foot  on the tile for weeks“ Excerpt from Emily Adams-Aucoin’s “Reception.” It appears in our Summer 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/DfR1YsS #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Litmag

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually, packs an emotional punch, and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. Details at the link below: buff.ly/QyxUBLT #WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #AmWriting #FlashFiction