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.