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We are pleased to announce this year's Pushcart Prize nominees in poetry and fiction. See the full list in our Contributor's Corner here: www.westchesterreview.com/news

POETRY: Amelia Harrington, David Kirby, Adam Gianforcaro, Jeremy Radin

FICTION: Anne Freier, Tess Light

Congrats!
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Chill Subs asks for nominations for their Best Lit Mag Awards, and you can nominate up to 5 of your favorite journals! If you are so inclined, we hope you will consider nominating The Westchester Review for this honor.

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Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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A taste of short fiction from our Fall issue, featuring Tess Light's "The Darker Domestic Arts"
Read this and more here: www.westchesterreview.com

#creativewriting #writingcommunity #fiction #shortstory #litmag #literaryjournal #writing
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Get ready to launch your creative writing soon! Our submission portals are reopening for fiction, nonfiction, and plays on November 1. Poetry reopens January 1, 2026.

Learn more and submit here: www.westchesterreview.com/submit

#fiction #poetry #drama #creativewriting #plays #litmag #submission
October 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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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
October 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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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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October 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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
October 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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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
September 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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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
September 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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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
August 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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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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July 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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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
July 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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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
July 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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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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July 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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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
June 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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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
June 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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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
June 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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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.

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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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May 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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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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May 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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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:

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Her work embraced science, family, and the environment. She will be profoundly missed.
May 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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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
April 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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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:

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#spring #green #summer #poetry #litmag #poetrymonth
April 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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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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April 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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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
March 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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
March 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM