Thank you for considering West Trestle Review as a home for your work. We are open to art and poetry by creators around the globe who self-identify as women or as non-binary. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if your work is accepted by another publication. We strive to respond within three months. If you have not heard back from us within 90 days, feel free to give us a nudge.
We’ve pledged with VIDA’s #saferLIT campaign. This means we don’t tolerate or accept anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, fatphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, or stories that in any way perpetuate negative stereotypes.
WTR offers:
- Free submissions of art and poetry
- Fairlies: Free submissions of reprints of poetry by women and non-binary, BIPOC poets and writers
- Prize nominations for contributors
- Social media shoutouts for contributors
In the event your work is accepted,West Trestle Review(WTR)requests First North American Serial Rights (FNASR) and nonexclusive electronic, online, and archival rights. This means you agree to allow WTR to be the first publisher of your work in North America (meaning your work has not been previously published anywhere else, including personal blogs, websites, or social media), after which rights return to you. We reserve, however, the right to republish your work on our website, blog, archive, anthology, or promotional materials related to WTR both online and in print, and we request that you give WTR publication credit if you republish your work elsewhere.
Originality and ownership clause: All contributors will be asked to affirm that the work is her / their own creative effort, unadulterated by machine-generated visual or literary art.
Click the button below for all of our genre-specific guidelines, and be sure to report your submission at Duotrope.
*Note: This submission portal is for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and Poets of Color) only*
Dear poet,
Thank you for considering West Trestle Review as a home for your work.
We are open to work from around the globe, as long as it's written in English by a woman or non-binary writer. Please send at least two, but no more than five of your best poems attached here in a single document, in black Times New Roman, 12 pt. font. We prefer not to make edits to accepted pieces, but please wait until your work has been accepted before making / requesting edits.
We ask that contributors wait one year after their piece was published before submitting again. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately through Submittable's messaging system if your work is accepted by another publication. We hope to one day be able to pay our contributors, but that time has not yet arrived. We do nominate our contributors for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and Pushcart. We also promote our contributors' work via social media.
Originality and Ownership Clause: All contributors will be asked to affirm that the work is her / their own creative effort, unadulterated by machine-generated visual or literary art.
Finally, by submitting your work here, you agree to be added to our email list. Our newsletters are short and occasional.
Thank you for your interest in West Trestle Review!
Poems submitted to Fairlies will have been written by a woman of color or non-binary writer of color and published at least one year ago in a print-only publication. Please send up to five poems in one document. Include the title of each submission, the name of the journal where it was published, and the year of publication.
Finally, when you submit to WTR, you are agreeing to be included in our occasional newsletter.
We look forward to reading your work!
WTR staff
Dear artist,
Thank you for considering West Trestle Review as a home for your visual art. Women and non-binary artists are welcome to submit up to five low-res images as JPEG attachments. Tell us about your process in the cover letter. If your work is chosen, we will request high-res images. We aim to respond within three months. If you haven't heard back from us in 90 days feel free to give us a nudge via Submittable. Please do send more than one image in a submission so that the editors have a sense of your work.
Originality and Ownership Clause: All contributors will be asked to affirm that the work is her / their own creative effort, unadulterated by machine-generated visual or literary art.
Finally, by submitting your work here, you are agreeing to be added to our email list. Our newsletters are short and occasional.