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West Trade Review

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Publishing the best contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry since 2009. Literary magazine based out of Charlotte, NC. westtradereview.com

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“your mother’s words are birthed from the mouth of a gun” Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday is “funeral for small bones” by H.C Bending. It appeared in the Winter 2021 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/k7zgpHI #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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.
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 below: buff.ly/V2i6C8X #LitMag
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
West Trade Review seeks essays that explore the idea of inheritances. 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 and dealt with what you didn't choose. buff.ly/yWXPZwT #LitMag
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're thrilled to announce that Iron Oak Editions has acquired Good Friend, the debut novel by Cosmo Hinsman, coming Fall 2027. Set in the East Village after the pandemic hit, Good Friend is about faith, masculinity, forgiveness, and the friends we can't quite let go of. #GoodFriend #DebutNovel
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“One day, the wafer floated to her. Entered her mouth. Ecstatic, she died.” Excerpt from Adriana Beltrano’s “Tony Soprano Dreams of Girl Saints.” It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen to Adriana read below: buff.ly/RSsVhZn #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Poetry
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seeking poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while referring to the basic things that make us human. We want powerful imagery and the juxtaposition of images in unexpected ways. Oct.’s theme is shapeshifting. buff.ly/ahYP9Kt #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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/LVTnW23 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CallForSubmissions
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I’m trying to understand something better about my emotional constitution by performing a deep-seeing of a geography that once shaped me.“ Looking for writing inspiration? Check out this generative poetry prompt from Allisa Cherry at the link: buff.ly/H4s6AXs #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some books just find their way to you. This is one of them. Preview and purchase at the link below: buff.ly/T9Ef7EC #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #SmallPressPoetry #DebutPoetry #SpineoftheHug
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I’m trying to understand something better about my emotional constitution by performing a deep-seeing of a geography that once shaped me.“ Looking for writing inspiration? Check out this generative poetry prompt from Allisa Cherry at the link: buff.ly/H4s6AXs #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“there is no nest made too soft when you consider how brittle the egg” Excerpt from this week’s #FlashbackFriday, “eggshells” by Rachael Inciarte. It appeared in the Winter 2021 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/oZ3UfLs #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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.
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some books just find their way to you. This is one of them. Preview and purchase at the link below: buff.ly/T9Ef7EC #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #SmallPressPoetry #DebutPoetry #SpineoftheHug
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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 below: buff.ly/D3417Gz #LitMag
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
West Trade Review seeks essays that explore the idea of inheritances. 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 and dealt with what you didn't choose. buff.ly/cj2Meiv #LitMag
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“There are doors that are shut and we make a life behind them” Excerpt from Tola Sylvan’s “Doors,” forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/vwiGdbM #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"White boys churn beneath the power plant like it’s the moon, in a mad scramble for touch.” Excerpt from Mary Catherine Dean’s “We’ve Got More,” new on our Substack, Roots & Words. Read it at the link below: buff.ly/qkrtOZZ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“…the author asks us to reckon with how we're already looking at the genocidal tragedy, and similarly, what that looking costs.” Excerpt from the review of “Exhibit G: Surviving Image” by Fady Joudah, new from @‌https://buff.ly/CK8627V. buff.ly/P95q6sy #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seeking poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while referring back to the basic things that make us human. We want powerful imagery and enjoy the juxtaposition of images in unexpected ways. Sept.’s theme is being alone. buff.ly/CgKWm9q #WritingCommunity
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I know I ain’t smart and I don’t know nothing when it comes to poetry, but I did— I bawled my eyes out.” Excerpt from @williecarver.bsky.social's “Ars Audiendi.” It appears in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen to Willie read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/GbeQ7Y4
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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/EuZE5Hw #WritingCommunity
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The editors of West Trade Review seek essays that explore the idea of inheritances, or what you were given without asking for it. Show us how you carried it and how you dealt with what you didn't choose. Details at the link below: buff.ly/mpBrUcK #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Built on a series of vignettes, Ninan relies on quick, impactful moments to show how meaningful simplicity can be.” Excerpt from review of Ninan - Tiohtiá:ke, Montreal by Michel Jean, new from @houseofanansi.bsky.social. Read the full review: buff.ly/oeGe2kU #WritingCommunity #BookTok
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“I stepped from that bad rust bucket of a car & became a good pack of nothing, just a bunch of bones roped together under blue & white gingham” Excerpt from this week’s #FlashbackFriday, “Tornado Weather” by Emma Bolden. It appeared in the Fall 2024 collection of Online Exclusives.
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“At first, we called it exposure therapy. Then, eventually, we called it practice.” Excerpt from Sushanth Shyamsundar’s “Practice.” It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full story at the link below: buff.ly/YVZ5lsW #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Built on a series of vignettes, Ninan relies on quick, impactful moments to show how meaningful simplicity can be.” Excerpt from review of Ninan - Tiohtiá:ke, Montreal by Michel Jean, new from @houseofanansi.bsky.social. Read the full review: buff.ly/oeGe2kU #WritingCommunity #BookTok
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Twenty years in the making. Fifty-three lyric poems rooted in the landscapes of Michigan, moving through grief, desire, caregiving, and the long aftermath of childhood. Spine of the Hug is available for preview and presale at the link below: buff.ly/Jg2nUjK #PoetryCommunity #BookTok #DebutPoetry
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The editors of West Trade Review seek essays that explore the idea of inheritances, or what you were given without asking for it. Show us how you carried it and how you dealt with what you didn't choose. Details at the link below: buff.ly/mpBrUcK #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Even in evocative seasons such as this when late summer turns towards fall, inspiration can falter.” Shake yourself out of your usual patterns of observation and record keeping with this generative poetry prompt from associate poetry editor Claire Jussel. Check out here: buff.ly/SQsLbLE
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“With direct and lucid prose, Metzger['s]…expressions of palpable desire illustrate that loss does not smother longing but amplifies it.” Excerpt from the review of “The Going is Forever” by Elizabeth Metzger, new from Milkweed Editions. Details below: buff.ly/YNLwZ7u #BookTok #NewPoetry
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Get inspired. 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 below: buff.ly/P05Qp5O #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“She is covered in flies. Her eyes black  as tarmac, open and staring straight   into God’s mouth.” Excerpt from Nicole Dalcourt’s “Road Kill,” forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read it at the link below: buff.ly/lGuLGLc #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag #Poetry
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Sue’s obsession with the house pressurizes her already intense lifestyle, pushing directly on a schism between the liberal values that she claims to hold...” Excerpt from the review of “Shelter is Necessary for Existence” by Brenda Iijima, new from @twodollarradio.bsky.social buff.ly/IrkTSWZ
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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 September’s theme of being alone. buff.ly/JVb9xMp #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Had hoped. God, I really did. Feels humiliating now. A head in a toilet—as if in a wishing well.” Excerpt from “Drunk” by Kieron Walquist. It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen to Kieron read the full poem below: buff.ly/DYa2ceN #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Submissions open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our submission guidelines: buff.ly/PbxGCaX #WritingCommunity #LitMag #AmWriting #CallForSubmissions #SubmitWork
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
West Trade Review seeks essays that explore the idea of inheritances. 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 and dealt with what you didn't choose. buff.ly/Ntxllih #LitMag
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“That winter we went through the hymnal  singing every song with “worm” in the lyrics—  a not insignificant number.” Excerpt from “Tim.Worm” by Megan Blankenship. It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read it at the link below: buff.ly/Pswqmzu #WritingCommunity
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hershman writes the body the way few poets do—not as metaphor, not as politics, but as the actual strange fact of having one: its sounds, its failures, its unexpected tenderness toward other bodies. Available for preview and presale at the link below: buff.ly/HKtl7Sy #BookTok #SpineOfHug
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“He broke the news with tact. He lingered on the first few words, but she knew right away.” Excerpt from “The Cat’s Urn” by Emile Estrada. It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full piece at the link below: buff.ly/Id8EleP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Between is a liminal place, a crossroads, in many cases a dilemma. And between is not easily resolved.“ Excerpt from “Between begins with to be, with being” by Jacqueline Kolosov, new on our Substack Roots and Words. Read it at the link below: buff.ly/2uWbpK2 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“We have to feel things in order for them to leave us.” Excerpt from Chelsea Catherine’s “Cycle Breakers,” new on our Substack, Roots & Words. Read the full piece at the link below: buff.ly/j2PTter #WritingCommunitiy #AmWriting #LitMag #Essays #NewWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“I planted grass around a tree already planted. I told the tree to give way to grass like I was God.” Excerpt from this week’s #FlashbackFriday, “Philistine, by Zachary Forest y Salazar. It appeared in the Summer 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Between is a liminal place, a crossroads, in many cases a dilemma. And between is not easily resolved.“ Excerpt from “Between begins with to be, with being” by Jacqueline Kolosov, new on our Substack Roots and Words. Read it at the link below: buff.ly/2uWbpK2 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“He broke the news with tact. He lingered on the first few words, but she knew right away.” Excerpt from “The Cat’s Urn” by Emile Estrada. It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full piece at the link below: buff.ly/Id8EleP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hershman writes the body the way few poets do—not as metaphor, not as politics, but as the actual strange fact of having one: its sounds, its failures, its unexpected tenderness toward other bodies. Available for preview and presale at the link below: buff.ly/HKtl7Sy #BookTok #SpineOfHug
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“That winter we went through the hymnal  singing every song with “worm” in the lyrics—  a not insignificant number.” Excerpt from “Tim.Worm” by Megan Blankenship. It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read it at the link below: buff.ly/Pswqmzu #WritingCommunity
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
West Trade Review seeks essays that explore the idea of inheritances. 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 and dealt with what you didn't choose. buff.ly/Ntxllih #LitMag
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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. August’s theme is being alone. October's upcoming theme is shapeshifting. buff.ly/VCVDDI1 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
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