Thank you for considering West Trestle Review as a home for your work. We are open to art, fiction 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.
Update: All submissions are currently free thanks to an gift from an anonymous donor. Thank you!
We are pleased to announce that submissions from Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Asian creators of color are always free. We made this decision after reading Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist, specifically this passage:
"The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, 'You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate (her/them), bring (her/them) up to the starting line of a race and then say, "You are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.'"
If you are a white poet or prose writer, we hope that you will consider your $3 submission fee as a donation (of which WTR receives $1.86) to support the work of BIPOC creators.
In addition, if your work centers on the knowledge or experience of powerful groups targeted for oppression, please also include an identity statement in your cover letter so we know your relationship to that group.
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:
Click the button below for all of our genre-specific guidelines, and be sure to report your submission at Duotrope.
We hope to be able to pay our contributors one day, but that time has not yet arrived. We do nominate our contributors for various prizes. We also promote our contributors' work via social media.
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.
Update: All submissions are currently free thanks to an gift from an anonymous donor. Thank you!
We are pleased to announce that submissions from Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Asian creators of color are always free. We made this decision after reading Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist, specifically this passage:
"The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, 'You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate (her/them), bring (her/them) up to the starting line of a race and then say, "You are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.'"
If you are a white poet or prose writer, we hope that you will consider your $3 submission fee as a donation (of which WTR receives $1.86) to support the work of BIPOC creators.
In addition, if your work centers on the knowledge or experience of powerful groups targeted for oppression, please also include an identity statement in your cover letter so we know your relationship to that group.
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:
- Fairlies: Free submissions of reprints of poetry or stories by women of color and non-binary writers of color
- Submission +: We offer detailed critique on submissions for a small fee (currently on hiatus)
- Free art submissions
- Occasional Free Submission Sundays for all submitters (watch for these on social media)
Click the button below for all of our genre-specific guidelines, and be sure to report your submission at Duotrope.
We hope to be able to pay our contributors one day, but that time has not yet arrived. We do nominate our contributors for various prizes. We also promote our contributors' work via social media.
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.
