Publishing quarterly, three online issues and one print annual, West Trade Review Spring 2026 (Volume 17) is available to order in print with sample works open-access on their website. This issue includes a themed section “Borders & Border Crossings” as well as new poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction by Justin Taroli, Rebecca Makkai, Vincent Perrone, Elliott Gish, Madison Ellingsworth, Ericka Russell, Jill Barrie, Paul Hostovsky, Brice Maiurro, Dylan Tran, Lucy Griffith, John Muellner, Alex Vigue, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Christian Paulisich, Sharon Du, J.L. Chen, D Anson Lee, Schyler Butler, John Carmen Harper, Natalia Martinez, Christien Gholson, Cam McGlynn, Eileen Pettycrew, Amanda Turner, and many more. Cover image: Weightless by Denis Sarazhin.

West Trade Review is looking for submissions for their weekly Substack feature Trill: Poems That Resonate — “poems that uniquely explore each month’s theme and perform Olympic feats with language that leave a reader in wonder while still referring back to the basic things that make us human.”

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West Trade Review is a quarterly literary journal publishing diverse, risk-taking contemporary writing and art from both emerging and established voices. The Winter 2025 issue offers readers a collection of online exclusives including poetry by Anya Kirshbaum, Zizipho Godana, T. De Los Reyes, Sandra Tan, Rachel Becker, Ewen Glass, ​Timothy Stobierski, Schyler Butler, Rita Mookerjee, Natalia Godyla, Eric Baker, D Anson Lee, Sean Wang, Nathan Erwin, Collin Kim, James Lilliefors, Annette Sisson, Rowan Tate; fiction by Janine A. Willis; creative nonfiction​ by R.C. Blenis; and a video of visual poetics,  “The Dreamworld Radicalizes” by Maya Miracle Gudapati. Cover art by David Deweerdt (IG: @davidpeintladifference).

The Spring 2023 issue of West Trade Review is their annual print edition and features fiction by Emily Hall, Nick Gregorio, and Maria Alvarez; poetry by Robert Wood Lynn, Rogan Kelly, Kimberly Ann Priest, Anthony DiPietro, Bree Bailey, Max Parker, and Megan Merchant; CNF by Haley Notter, Lily Levin, and Katherine Grasso; visual art by Nika Novich; interviews with Emily Hall, Robert Wood Lynn, and Nika Novich. West Trade Review‘s mission is to perpetuate the work of artists both well-known and yet-to-be-known, reflecting diversity in style, content, and perspective throughout prose, poetry, photography, and other artwork.

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