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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 11h

Seeking poems that perform Olympic feats with language that leave the reader in wonder while referring to the things that make us human. We want powerful imagery and the juxtaposition of images in unexpected ways. October’s theme is shapeshifting. buff.ly/ez033BT #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 12h

“felt the taunting / trauma of uncertainty and desire’s constant ache” Excerpt of “Closure” by Homa Mojadidi. It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen to Homa read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/HMN4AEh #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #NewWriting

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 12h

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/bT5joN6 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CallForSubmissions

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We’re excited to present the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Cordero Estremera; @williecarver.bsky.social , Kandala Singh, and Nicole Dalcourt; fiction by Susthanth Shyamsundar; CNF by Emile Estrada. Read the collection here: buff.ly/VvArJpI #WritingCommunity

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“I wish for none of this to be true. I wish for all of it to matter.” Excerpt from John Pring’s “Entering the Valley” which is forthcoming in the Winter 2027 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full piece at the link below: buff.ly/35yaDAF #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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/SPdacjC #LitMag

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Long Soldier does not simply document historical trauma. She writes towards restorative world-making.” Excerpt from review of "We" by Layli Longsoldier, new from @graywolfpress.bsky.social Graywolf Press. Read the full review at the link below: buff.ly/rlJpHZc #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“She doesn’t fear going crazy; she fears watching it happen. A slow decay.” Excerpt from Leigh Ann Ruggiero’s “The Wait.” It is forthcoming in the Winter 2027 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/lhJSrq8 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #NewPoetry #LitMag

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jacqueline Kolosov reads three passages from her new book that stopped her while she was writing them. Hear them and watch her read at the link below: buff.ly/3XKHqYK Get a copy of the book at the IOE website. #WritingCommunity #PlacesBetween #BookTok #Essays

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“I’ll be an owl for you, swiveling on a body tufted and soft.” This week’s #flashbackfriday is an excerpt of “Morning love poem” by Hannah Miller. It appeared in our Summer 2024 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full poem below: buff.ly/WRg1fkm #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Poetry

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“All of us skeletons walking, sitting like the man at a cafe table, sunglasses set on the rim of his skull“ Excerpt from “Atlas” by Cynthia Good, new on our Substack, Roots & Words. Read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/WjuZF91 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag #NewWork #Poetry

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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 · 07/10/2026

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The author’s reflections on Nessie reach entertaining insights about the positing-power of the human imagination.“ Excerpt from review of There’s a Monster in the Lake by Laura Fernandez, new from @‌https://buff.ly/BsurfWP. Details below: buff.ly/dWRDwdF #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookTok

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Would you like a moment to say goodbye? the lady asked. It’s already dead.” Emile Estrada reads "The Cat's Urn," which is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen to Emile read the full piece at the link below: buff.ly/8CihBoB #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Poetry

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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/faayWw8 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #CallForSubmissions

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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 · 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 · 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

Send us work that uniquely explores October’s theme of shapeshifting. November’s upcoming theme is gratitude. Details at the link below: buff.ly/pB57vSi #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag #SubmissionsOpen #Poetry

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Trill: Poems That Resonate

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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 · 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 · 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

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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

Send us work that uniquely explores September’s theme of being alone. October's upcoming theme is shapeshifting. Details at the link below: buff.ly/pB57vSi #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #LitMag #SubmissionsOpen #Poetry

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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

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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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