Thank you for considering West Trestle Review as a home for your work. We are currently open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry and art by BIPOC poets and artists around the globe who self-identify as women or as non-binary. Please send as many as five but definitely *a minimum of two* poems or pieces of art per submission.
We also accept one reprint for each issue's Fairlies feature. These are poems by BIPOC women and nonbinary writers that appeared in a print-only publication more than a year prior to submission.
General submissions will open May 1 for the September issue.
General submissions will be open September 1-November 30 (or until we reach our cap) for the March issue of the following year.
Art submissions and submissions for BIPOC poets are always open.
One submission per creative medium at a time, please – e.g., if you have a poetry submission, "XYZ," pending our response, it's fine to submit art before you hear back from us about "XYZ," but please do not submit more poetry until we have responded to "XYZ."
We do not accept revisions after work has been submitted.
If you are a former contributor, we ask that you wait one year after we last published your work before submitting again.
We 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.
If you need to withdraw a piece, please message us via Submittable messages. Please note that the "Note" feature is private to the submitter, and we're not able to view messages there.
To reach out to us regarding anything else, please message through our contact form.
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:
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.
Note regarding solicitations: West Trestle Review editors are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to that end we do, on occasion, solicit work from BIPOC poets. A solicitation does not guarantee an acceptance, however. Of the work we published in 2025, one contributor submat after a gentle suggestion.
Click the button below for all of our genre-specific guidelines, and be sure to report your submission at Duotrope.
We also accept one reprint for each issue's Fairlies feature. These are poems by BIPOC women and nonbinary writers that appeared in a print-only publication more than a year prior to submission.
General submissions will open May 1 for the September issue.
General submissions will be open September 1-November 30 (or until we reach our cap) for the March issue of the following year.
Art submissions and submissions for BIPOC poets are always open.
One submission per creative medium at a time, please – e.g., if you have a poetry submission, "XYZ," pending our response, it's fine to submit art before you hear back from us about "XYZ," but please do not submit more poetry until we have responded to "XYZ."
We do not accept revisions after work has been submitted.
If you are a former contributor, we ask that you wait one year after we last published your work before submitting again.
We 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.
If you need to withdraw a piece, please message us via Submittable messages. Please note that the "Note" feature is private to the submitter, and we're not able to view messages there.
To reach out to us regarding anything else, please message through our contact form.
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
- 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.
Note regarding solicitations: West Trestle Review editors are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to that end we do, on occasion, solicit work from BIPOC poets. A solicitation does not guarantee an acceptance, however. Of the work we published in 2025, one contributor submat after a gentle suggestion.
Click the button below for all of our genre-specific guidelines, and be sure to report your submission at Duotrope.
