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 below: buff.ly/wQ7xFdi #WritingCommunity

“For quite sometime now, I’ve considered my relationship to friction, the tug and pull between wanting to create and the avoidance of negative feelings.” Get your mind simmering with a new generative prose prompt from our editor and founder, Ken R. Harmon. buff.ly/EocmHBV #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 August’s theme of turning points. buff.ly/T9EDPU5 #WritingCommunity #CallForSubmissions #Poetry

“What first greets anyone who enters this room  is not the medication, not my drooping eyes” Excerpt from “Animalcules” by Chisom Okafor. It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full piece: buff.ly/o7H9FvR #WritingCommunity

“I love the smell of the page, its shove, its rage” Excerpt from “longing is a name for god” by Alex Baskin. It appeared in the Summer 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen to Alex read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/Doh4mEM #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #NewWriting

West Trade Review seeks essays that explore the idea of inheritances, or what you were given without asking for it. We are not looking for family memoir, nor for essays on the mechanism of transmission. Show us how you carried it and how you dealt with what you didn't choose. buff.ly/G0BWTvB

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 turning points. September's upcoming theme is on being alone. buff.ly/ugOJsyl #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

“See how words suture wounds. I was / am there. I cradle his body as he falls.” Excerpt from Homa Mojadidi’s poem “Closure.” It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/Dsr9Bt3 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

“No one knows whether a grave is really a grave if there are no flowers, no headstone and no mourners.”  Excerpt from Savannah Massey's “Pretending We Know We Are Pretending." It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. buff.ly/qhu8I2C #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Poetry

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Submissions close August 1st. Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. $704 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition will be awarded. Details: buff.ly/tYuq6Kg #AmWriting

“Because, my mother said, your father was once a boy who lived with other boys and knows what they are like. Zoo animals…” Excerpt from this week’s #FlashbackFriday is “ANTELOPES” by Kuhu Joshi. It appeared in the Fall 2025 Collection of Online Exclusives. Read here: buff.ly/z7zERuz #AmWriting

“See how words suture wounds. I was / am there. I cradle his body as he falls.” Excerpt from Homa Mojadidi’s poem “Closure.” It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/Dsr9Bt3 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Submissions close August 1st. Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. $704 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition will be awarded. Details: buff.ly/tYuq6Kg #AmWriting

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. buff.ly/wkeuadG #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

Submissions close August 1st. Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that has something important to teach 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/92dNiU1 #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. August’s theme is turning points. September's upcoming theme is on being alone. buff.ly/ugOJsyl #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

“I found a pattern because we are meaning-making-beings, and the collection enacts that process.” Excerpt from “Why I Wrote Motherhood, and the Places Between” by Jacqueline Kolosov, new on our Substack, Roots & Words. buff.ly/bz07T9k Preorder a copy today. #WritingCommunitiy #AmWriting

“No one knows whether a grave is really a grave if there are no flowers, no headstone and no mourners.”  Excerpt from Savannah Massey's “Pretending We Know We Are Pretending." It is forthcoming in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. buff.ly/qhu8I2C #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Poetry

“The body in her bed begins to unmake itself. It wilts into its own decay.” Excerpt from Ashni Math’s “Monsoon Worms," the grand prize winner for the 2025 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. The 704 Prize for Flash Fiction 2026 closes Aug. 1st. buff.ly/gLtApvT #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #FlashFiction

First, I waited for something to kill me.” Excerpt from “Reception” by Emily Adams-Aucoin. It appeared in the Summer 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen to Emily read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/b2u8pLa #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Poetry

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/YZQXetj #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #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. Pre-order now at the link below: buff.ly/nXgbPT9 Cover art by Luis Xertu. #WritingCommunity #SpineOfTheHug

Dawn Miller’s “Shark Boy" was an honorable mention for the 2025 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. The 704 Prize for Flash Fiction 2026 closes August 1st. Read Miller’s story and get contest details at the link below: buff.ly/j8jEJnh #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #FlashFiction #CallForSubmissions

“One day, the wafer floated to her. Entered her mouth. Ecstatic, she died.” Excerpt from “Tony Soprano Dreams of Girl Saints,” by Adriana Beltrano @‌adrianabeltrano.bsky.social. It appears in the Fall 2026 collection of Online Exclusives. Read here: buff.ly/B0V0N8x #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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 below: buff.ly/wkeuadG #WritingCommunity

Submissions close soon. Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. $704 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition of West Trade Review is the prize. Details: buff.ly/92dNiU1

“Throughout these poems, the idea of how people and countries wield power is not the subtext but is brought to the forefront of the writing.” Excerpt from review of @‌kylecarrerolopez.bsky.social’s Party Line, new from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Full review: buff.ly/drr3D0g #WritingCommunit

Get your mind simmering, simmering, simmering with a new generative poetry prompt from associate poetry editor Claire Jussel. Read it at the link below: buff.ly/cNLdA7X #AmWriting #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #LitMag #WritingPrompt

“Throughout these poems, the idea of how people and countries wield power is not the subtext but is brought to the forefront of the writing.” Excerpt from review of @‌kylecarrerolopez.bsky.social’s Party Line, new from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Full review: buff.ly/drr3D0g #WritingCommunit

“Tomorrow they will bury her soft body  underneath a row of hibiscus happily blooming in  the summer.” Excerpt from this week’s #FlashbackFriday, T. De Los Reyes’s “Salt.” It appeared in the Winter 2025 edition. Read the full poem: buff.ly/7cm8HvY #LitMag #WritingCommunity #AmWriting