Looking for writing inspiration for the new year? Check out the new poetry generative writing prompt from poetry editor @mikalwix.bsky.social at the link below: buff.ly/uX6ZRsg #writingcommunity

“But forgetting isn't absence. It's presence turned inside out. My mother doesn't lose memories—she transforms them.” Excerpt of “Ice Cubes That Remember Champagne” by Janine A. Willis. It appeared in the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. Read below: buff.ly/2WceOiJ #writingcommunity

Looking back on 2025 and feeling #grateful for all our contributors and readers. For 2026, resolve to read and support West Trade Review and other great lit mags like @rattlepoetry.bsky.social, @adroitjournal.bsky.social, @nimrodjournal.bsky.social, and @ninthletter.bsky.social #writingcommunity

Need honest, constructive criticism to maximize your manuscript’s potential? Consider working with one of our professional editors who can offer detailed developmental feedback. Meet the @ironoakeditions.bsky.social team and learn more at the link below: buff.ly/0KvVJVJ #writingcommunity

The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived (broader than only literary). Details at the link below: buff.ly/4x34pjR #writingcommunity

Are you ready? Our fifth annual fiction contest begins January 15th. We want stories that make the reader think and feel, work that humbles us with its joy, humor, embarrassment, anger, hope, grief, or all of the above. Details: buff.ly/5UMYjmH #writingcommunity

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. Send us work that uniquely explores January’s theme of “sound.” Details below: buff.ly/V5REM0O #writingcommunity

“A kind of wanting, written onto the rungs of my vertebrae— ancient, unsung.” Excerpt from “Want of a Child” by @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social. It appeared in the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/UQN13dN #writingcommunity

Are you ready? The fifth annual West Trade Review Prize for Poetry opens January 15th. This year’s judge is Jason Schneiderman! Details at the link below: buff.ly/tl16Ofy #writingcommunity

“My parents plucked me from nonexistence, the only everlasting status, because they wanted to, because they could.” Excerpt from “Nothing” by @jrigamonti.bsky.social. It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen to the full piece below: buff.ly/KM4P4io #writingcommunity

Ready? Our fifth annual fiction contest begins Jan. 15th. We want stories that make the reader think and feel, work that humbles us with its joy, humor, embarrassment, anger, hope, grief, or all of the above, and gravitate toward writing that has something important to teach us. #writingcommunity

“even if it leans against you without fear or need it does so wholly…“ Excerpt from “It’s not always simple to hold the child“ by Rowan Tate. It appeared in the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. Read it at the link below: buff.ly/OeJAr6S #writingcommunity

Are you ready? The fifth annual West Trade Review Prize for Poetry opens January 15th. This year’s judge is Jason Schneiderman! Details at the link below: buff.ly/bQrjW4D #writingcommunity

The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived (broader than only literary). We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, etc. Details: buff.ly/BLbblht #writingcommunity

We are seeking poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still reminding us of what makes us human. Send us work that uniquely explores January’s theme of “sound.” Details below: buff.ly/V5REM0O #writingcommunity #poetry

“Perhaps the creative life is animated by incompletion.” Excerpt from “Schrödinger’s Page” by Mridula Sharma, exclusively on our Substack, Roots & Words. Read the full essay at the link below: buff.ly/5MSa3sd #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetry #amwriting #writing #litmag #creativewriting

“Perhaps the creative life is animated by incompletion.” Excerpt from “Schrödinger’s Page” by Mridula Sharma, exclusively on our Substack, Roots & Words. Read the full essay at the link below: buff.ly/5MSa3sd #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetry #amwriting #writing #litmag #creativewriting

We are seeking poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still reminding us of what makes us human. Send us work that uniquely explores January’s theme of “sound.” Details below: buff.ly/V5REM0O #writingcommunity #poetry

“Ask if a grey man’s dreams are built of burnable things. If he saw fire or water.” Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday is “My grandfather used to say glory!” by Kaley Hutter. It appeared in the Fall 2024 collection of Online Exclusives. Read here: buff.ly/NVavl5A #writingcommunity

Happy Holidays! May this holiday season fill your hearts, homes, and lives with joy, laughter, and love. Thank you for your support throughout the year and for being a part of our literary community. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

The editors of West Trade Review are looking for essays that explore creative life expansively conceived (broader than only literary). We are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, etc. Details: buff.ly/BLbblht #writingcommunity

Need constructive criticism to maximize your manuscript’s potential? Work with one of our professional editors who can offer detailed developmental feedback. @ironoakeditions.bsky.social editorial critique team is here to help you refine your work. Learn more: buff.ly/adongG7 #writingcommunity

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. Send us work that uniquely explores January’s theme of “sound.” buff.ly/UAmVyIj #writingcommunity

Are you ready? The fifth annual West Trade Review Prize for Poetry opens January 15th. This year’s judge is Jason Schneiderman! Details at the link below: buff.ly/bQrjW4D #writingcommunity

“even if it leans against you without fear or need it does so wholly…“ Excerpt from “It’s not always simple to hold the child“ by Rowan Tate. It appeared in the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. Read it at the link below: buff.ly/OeJAr6S #writingcommunity

“I’ve tried the whole picket- fence thing. Turned out to be a coping mechanism.” Excerpt from the most recent video poem in our Visual Poetics Series, "The Dreamworld Radicalizes." It is written and read by Maya Miracle Gudapati. Watch it here: buff.ly/9eSIffp #writingcommunity

“Show me all the ways my hands fit into your own, a phenomenon absent in our home galaxies, an equation solving and then re-solving itself.” Excerpt from Jennifer Molnar’s “Contact Binary.” It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen: buff.ly/ZuUFlBT #writingcommunity

Ready? Our fifth annual fiction contest begins January 15th. We want stories that make readers think and feel, work that humbles us with its joy, humor, embarrassment, anger, hope, grief, or all of the above, and gravitate toward writing that has something important to teach us. #writingcommunity

Lane Osborne’s “Unfinished” from the Spring 2024 print edition was listed in the new Best American Essays 2025 anthology as one of the "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024." Congratulations, Lane! #writingcommunity

“This, I believe, is the work of slowness: it returns us to the world with clearer eyes.” Excerpt from “The Stillness Between Breaths: Tuberculosis, Slowness, and the Lessons of Keats” by Zary Fekete, exclusively on our Substack, Roots & Words. Full essay here: buff.ly/5MSa3sd #writingcommunity

“...if you would look past the spiral china pattern of stars, you would see the slope of shells sliding under planets...” This week’s #flashbackfriday is “The Myth of the World Tortoise” by Beth McKinney from the Fall 2024 collection of Online Exclusives. Read: buff.ly/0SpeLtK #poetrycommunity

Are you ready? The fifth annual West Trade Review Prize for Poetry opens January 15th. This year’s judge is Jason Schneiderman. Details at the link below: buff.ly/fKnIMaS #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetry #writing #creativewriting #poetrylovers #amwriting #writingsociety #poetryislife

We are seeking poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while still reminding us of what makes us human. Send us work that uniquely explores January’s theme of “sound.” Details here: buff.ly/oqNQaQ0 #writingcommunity #poetry

A woman on a subway platform picks her scalp until it bleeds. Everyone steps back. Then her phone rings, and in thirty seconds, everything we thought we knew about her changes. Check out my essay in West Trade Review exploring language, perception, and mental health.

Thank you to West Trade Review and editor Ken Harmon for publishing my new poem "The Dark Art of Hope" in their Winter 2025 edition, now available. @westtradereview.bsky.social westtradereview.com/onlineexclus...

We’re excited to present the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Nathan Erwin, @ritamookerjee.bsky.social, @ewenglass.bsky.social, and @andhow.bsky.social among others; fiction by Janine A. Willis; CNF by @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social Read it here:

Are you ready? Our fifth annual fiction contest begins January 15th. We want stories that make the reader think and feel, work that humbles us with its joy, humor, embarrassment, anger, hope, grief, or all of the above, and gravitate toward writing that has something important. #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/brHZqVz #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 explores December’s theme of “letting go.” January’s upcoming theme is “sound.” buff.ly/iDoooAa #writingcommunity

The editors of West Trade Review are seeking personal essays exploring creative practice, support for the literary or creative life, hopes/desires/goals for the arts and creative life, etc. (but can be broader than just literary). Details are at the link below: buff.ly/OEKTITT #writingcommunity

We’re excited to present the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Nathan Erwin, @ritamookerjee.bsky.social, @ewenglass.bsky.social, and @andhow.bsky.social among others; fiction by Janine A. Willis; CNF by @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social Read it here:

Submissions close December 15th. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/3bpd8fr #writingcommunity

We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Bill Griffin’s poetry manuscript, Permanence and Flux. It is forthcoming from ironoakeditions.bsky.social in the Fall of 2027.

“Hours scrawl then tamp. The night window leaks. Dogs mange the yard, hungrier every year.” Excerpt from “We will pretend this is more than a poem (isn’t it though)?” by Megan Merchant. It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen below: buff.ly/uZGUCJk #writingcommunity

Submissions close December 15th. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/3bpd8fr #writingcommunity

“I never saw the cancer. Just dreamt of it in a metal bowl – its wildflower confusion and bellied dark.” Excerpt from “Haining Funeral“ by Sharon Du. It appeared in the Fall 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full piece at the link below: buff.ly/PWxJdZZ #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. December’s theme is “letting go.” January’s upcoming theme is “sound.” buff.ly/Zreigwv #writingcommunity

Looking for writing inspiration? Check out this recent poetry generative writing prompt from Allisa Cherry at the link below: buff.ly/YXNXEhd #poetrycommunity

“From the mirage of you I wake as a broom brush tree bending toward you in the Negev” Quote from “Makhtesh Ramon” by Dan Kraines, author of the new book Strap. Preorder a copy at the link below: buff.ly/8dwAYxw #writingcommunity

Submissions close December 15th. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/3bpd8fr #writingcommunity