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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · 8h

A highlight from Kevin Wong's "I Thought You Knew," among the other short stories, poems and a mini-play in our new Fall issue.

Read this and more here: www.westchesterreview.com

#fiction #shortstories #creativewriting #litmag #literaryjournal #writing #writingcommunity

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · 13d

Announcing our Nominees for Best of the Net 2025 Anthology, an annual acknowledgement of literary excellence in online publishing.

POETRY
Isaac Akanmu
Gabriela Garcia
Kevin Grauke
Rogan Kelly
Cecille Marcato
Hannah Rodabaugh

PROSE
Trent Nutting
Scott Pomfret

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · 18d

Fall 2025 Issue is live -- sad, dystopian, ominous to fit the times we're in, but also elegiac, inspiring. Against the backdrop of cover art: Árón Ó Maolagáin, The Punk in me is Dead

May your punk endure!

Enjoy: www.westchesterreview.com

#litjournal #fiction #drama #poetry #prose #writing

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · 21d

Basking in our final moments of the summer issue (since the weather agrees) before we acknowledge that it's actually fall and launch a new issue on Oct 1.

Until then, a quote from John Power's short fiction.

Read more here: www.westchesterreview.com

#fiction #litmag #writers #writingcommunity

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Sep 4

A snippet of September with Anne McPherson Arthurs' short story "Everything Upward."
Read more of our Summer edition here: www.westchesterreview.com#/summer-2025/
Fall issue launches Oct!

#Shortstory #fiction #creativewriting #litmag #litjournal #writing #writingcommunity

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Aug 16

How do your ghosts get around? Susannah Rigg's "The Medium." Among the short stories in our Summer edition and a quote to get you going:

Read more here:
www.westchesterreview.com#/summer-2025/

#fiction #shortstory #ghosts #medium #transport #creativewriting #writingcommunity #litmag #litjournal

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Jul 31

Your hot summer playlist here. Writers reading their poems and excerpts of stories/plays from our amazing Summer 2025 issue, all compiled here on Soundcloud. Enjoy:
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#audio #listen #poetry #play #shortstory #creativewriting #writingcommunity #writers #summer

Summer 2025

A literary journal, founded in 2007, based in Westchester County, New York and published online quarterly. Sharing audio here of our contributors reading their short prose and poetry in each seasonal

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Jul 26

Among the very lovely and relatable short fiction we highlight in our Summer issue, here's a quote from Anne Freier's "Hodgkin in the Window."

Read more here: www.westchesterreview.com#/summer-2025/
#cancer #hodgkin #recovery #healing #survivor

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Jul 15

A snippet of loss from Jennifer Marie Donahue's "Blue Jay of Happiness" story in our Summer issue that just launched.

Read more here: www.westchesterreview.com#/summer-2025/

#fiction #shortstory #litmag #litjournal #writerscommunity

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Jul 1

Summer 2025 has dropped, with an important note from our editors:

"Now more than ever, as the arts are being attacked and defunded, and voices are being censored and silenced, it is crucial for independent literary publications to prevail..."

Read more here:
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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Jun 30

Gotta love the rich color and texture in Melissa Staiger's Organic Form No. 4, the cover art for the Summer Issue that just screams summer!

The new issue itself launches tomorrow. Today we redecorate.

#art #summer

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Jun 28

A quote from our interview with poet Phylisha Villanueva in our Spring all-poetry issue.

Read more here: www.westchesterreview.com

#poetry #litmag #litjournal #writingcommunity

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Jun 16

What art can do in such times? Everything.

A quote from our ALL-POETRY special Spring issue. Read more at westchesterreview.com

#poetry #poets #art #artmatters #litmag #writingcommunity #litjournal

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · May 30

This Gallery is a Poem at HVM - the brainchild of Westchester Poet Laureate Phylisha Villanueva, interviewed in our special all-poetry Spring issue, includes poetry from 14 Westchester writers you may know including Mamaroneck village poet laureate Melissa Joplin Higley.

www.hrm.org/exhibitions/...

This Gallery Is a Poem: Unearthing Stories from the Collection | Hudson River Museum

Just as a painting can tell a story, a poem may conjure a picture in the mind’s eye. This Gallery Is a Poem: Unearthing Stories from the Collection brings visual and literary forms into conversation, ...

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · May 18

Our special All-Poetry annual issue is live, and many of the pieces come with recorded audio from their authors. You can hear them all in one playlist here on SoundCloud. Enjoy!

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#audio #poetry

Spring 2025

A literary journal, founded in 2007, based in Westchester County, New York and published online quarterly. Sharing audio here of our contributors reading their short prose and poetry in each seasonal

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · May 8

We were saddened to hear about the death of Martha Silano, a poet of supreme talent and skill whose work has reached many. Read two of her poems in TWR here:

westchesterreview.com/martha-silano

Her work embraced science, family, and the environment. She will be profoundly missed.

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Apr 29

You have to pay attention this season or you might miss something.

A quick quote from our all-poetry issue. Read more here: www.westchesterreview.com/spring-2025-...

#poetry #poetrymonth #magnolias #spring #fleeting #bloom

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Apr 15

A hint of it now in the Northeast with the beginning buds.

In celebration of these luscious green seasons, a quote from our All-Poetry spring edition. Read more here:

www.westchesterreview.com/spring-2025-...

#spring #green #summer #poetry #litmag #poetrymonth

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Apr 1

Our annual All-Poetry Issue is live, teeming with three interviews, tons of audio tracks of poets reading their works, cover art by Thomas Burke, and of course, so many stunning poems.

www.westchesterreview.com#/spring-2025/

#nationalpoetrymonth #poetry #spring #poets #writingcommunity

The Westchester Review

A literary journal featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and plays

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Mar 25

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Mar 25

Fascinating "Instructions for Swingers" in this short story from our Winter Issue.

See more here: www.westchesterreview.com#/winter-2025/

And stay tuned for the special Spring All-Poetry issue about to launch next week.

#fiction #shortstory #creativewriting #writingcommunity #litmag #swingers

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Mar 14

The silent treatment from Trent Nutting's short story, The Moose.

See this and more in our Winter Issue here: www.westchesterreview.com#/winter-2025/

And stay tuned for Spring Poetry coming soon!

#creativewriting #fiction #shortstory #litmag #writingcommunity

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Feb 19

Setting the scene. A quote from Desiree Remick's short story, "Star Magnolia" in our Winter issue.

Read this and more here: www.westchesterreview.com#/winter-2025/

#fiction #shortstory #creativewriting #litmag #litjournal #writingcommunity

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Feb 11

A new collection by a former contributor:

The Bounce, the new poetry collection by Karl Michael Iglesias, is an intimate poetry collection that gathers love, grief, and memory-echo as a remedy for the growing pains we all deserve.

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WestchesterReview @westchesterreview.bsky.social · Jan 30

Did you know you can listen to our issues as well as read them? Check out the Winter 2025 playlist on Soundcloud (and follow us there for future author readings of our issues).

soundcloud.com/westchesterr...

#audio #poetry #fiction #readings #listen

Winter 2025

A literary journal, founded in 2007, based in Westchester County, New York and published online quarterly. Sharing audio here of our contributors reading their short prose and poetry in each seasonal

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