Quarterly West

Our new issue is live! Featuring incredible work by @chenchenwrites @aeheelee and so many others! Also included is our inaugural “Overlook,” which contains a portfolio of work and an interview with Rick Barot! quarterlywest.com

Super excited to see that Angela Woodward's piece "My Bestseller," published in Issue 113, has won the Wisconsin Writers Award! Congrats to @awoodwardetc! Read the piece below! quarterlywest.com/issue-113-wood…

Our spring issue, ISSUE 114, is now live! Featuring new work by @irislyu_, @poetjanewong, and @Othuke__Umukoro, among many others. quarterlywest.com/issue-114

We are so excited to announce the results of our 2024 PROSE CONTEST! Please join us in congratulating our winners! Visit our website for the complete blurbs and a full list of finalists.

We are so excited to announce the results of our 2024 POETRY CONTEST! Please join us in congratulating our winners! Visit our website for the complete blurbs and a full list of finalists.

SUBMISSIONS UPDATE: We have hit our cap for PROSE submissions, yet we have a few more spots left for POETRY submissions! Our CHAPBOOK CONTEST, will remain open through 4/15. Send us your best!

Our CHAPBOOK CONTEST is now open for submissions! Send us your best!

Quarterly West is hosting an offsite at AWP alongside @thirdcoastmag and @WaxwingMag on March 26th at the First Draft Taproom and Kitchen DTLA at 8 PM! We have a terrific lineup of readers (and a good supply of drink tickets)! Hope to see you all there!

We are excited to announce that our annual open-genre CHAPBOOK CONTEST will begin accepting submissions on 3/15! This year our judge is MAGGIE MILLNER! The winner receives $1000, publication, and author copies. We will also be publishing a runner-up and one editors' choice!

On March 15th, Quarterly West will open for general submissions in POETRY and PROSE. Get those packets ready!

i’m terrible at math/with numbers in general (can barely remember my own phone number), so of course i decided to write a love poem in the form of a mathematical formula. here’s my other new poem in @QuarterlyWest, “Formula for a Day”—

with thanks once again to the editors @QuarterlyWest. & thanks to those who've already shared/mentioned this poem

both of my poems in Quarterly West are here :: quarterlywest.com/issue-113-chen

@QuarterlyWest This line: "Still, the pill he now takes each morning has sifted like a snowfall through him, and if he feels any despair, it is as simple as a coin in his palm." -Rick Barot

My review of the unmissable novel “American Abductions,” by Mauro Javier Cárdenas (@IneluctableQuak). Thanks to the editors @QuarterlyWest for including it🌻 quarterlywest.com/issue-113-comi…

i’ve got 2 new poems in @QuarterlyWest!! here’s one of them, “12 Questions,” which is inspired by Bhanu Kapil’s questions from The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, a book i remain completely obsessed with for both poems: quarterlywest.com/issue-113-chen

Here is our terrific new issue! It was honor to ask @BarotRick some questions about his beautiful poems. quarterlywest.com/issue-113-barot

I have a new poem up in the (excellent) latest edition of @QuarterlyWest. Big thanks to @Young_BrandonR @tuckner_matthew and the team for giving one of my favourite pieces a home. RIP James Wright. quarterlywest.com/issue-113-hamel

@QuarterlyWest issue 113 is now live! This is my last issue as the senior poetry editor, and as always this issue is no short of stunning. Read work from @chenchenwrites @aeheelee @JordanHamel_ @DorseyCraft @am_scharf and more! quarterlywest.com/issue-113

Issue 113 @QuarterlyWest is live! featuring prose from @awoodwardetc, @leanpig, and more! quarterlywest.com/issue-113