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Afterimages is a paying literary magazine by Thirty West Publishing House. Essays, reviews, short fiction, newsletters, & special submissions. ISSN: 3066-2621

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  • thirtywestph

    Est. 2015 in Pennsylvania. Read indie lit. www.thirtywestph.com

  • Mallory Smart

    THE ONLY LIVING GIRL IN CHICAGO• Editor-in-Chief @MaudlinHouse \ud83d\udcda • Person who talks about music @PodHealing \ud83c\udfa7 • Horror movies @horrorpod666 \ud83c\udfa5

  • KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ

    ~poet~

  • Josh Dale

    Josh Dale is the author of Duality Lies Beneath, The Light to Never Be Snuffed, and RAGE: Stories. He is the publisher of Thirty West Publishing House. Support indie lit. www.joshdale.co www.thirtywestph.com

  • Sara Rauch

    Author of WHAT SHINES FROM IT: STORIES and XO. Words lately in Afterimages, Vast Chasm, & Cutleaf. Poetry Program Coordinator/Teacher at The Care Center. Book in hand. Pencil & paper enthusiast. Living on coffee & a prayer.

  • Joseph Edwin Haeger

    Joseph Edwin Haeger is the author of the disjointed crime novella BARDO (Thirty West Publishing House) and the experimental memoir LEARN TO SWIM (University of Hell Press). He lives in Spokane, WA.

  • Swetha Amit

    Swetha is a writer/author in California with an MRA from USFMFA who writes mostly flash fiction and now working on 2 novels. https://swethaamit.com).

  • Kevin Sampsell

    Kevin Sampsell is a publisher (Future Tense Books), Bookseller (Powell's), collage artist, & author of books such as I Made an Accident and Sean the Stick. New novel, Baby in the Night, just came out! He writes the substack, Susan's Eyebrows.

  • Alex Miller

    Alex Miller is the author of the novel "White People on Vacation" (Malarkey Books, 2022) and the story collection "How to Write an Emotionally Resonant Werewolf Novel" (Unsolicited Press, 2019). Alex lives in Denver.

  • Liz deBeer

    Brief Bio: Reader, Flash Writer, Beach Walker, Cat Lover, Educator. Substack: A Lizard's Tale Website: https://www.ldebeerwriter.com

  • Rayni Wekluk

    Poems from the heartland.

  • Mike Bagwell | Ghost Harmonics

    Reading and performing arts series in Philly

  • Ross McMeekin

    Author of the novel PEPPERLEAF, out now from Thirty West, and a story collection, BELOW THE FALLS (Thirty West, 2024). Writing in Virginia Quarterly Review, Literary Hub, Shenandoah, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. PNW.

  • Lori Barrett

    Writer limping around Chicago. Find my work in Citron Review, The Pinch, Maudlin House, New World Writing and Little Engines, or crumpled lists in trash cans at the grocery store. Assistant fiction editor at Pithead Chapel.

  • allison whittenberg

    Allison Whittenberg's novels are Sweet Thang, Hollywood and Maine, Life is Fine, Tutored (Random House 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010). She is the author of the full-length short story collection, Carnival of Reality (Loyola University Press, 2022) .

  • MG Allan

    MG Allan spent nearly two decades publishing horror and suspense under a different name, but now he has shifted focus to work of a more personal nature. He is a queer writer who wants to tell queer stories.

  • Ashton Morgan

    Ashton Morgan is currently a Creative Writing BFA holder from BGSU. They’ve previously been published in The Liar; The Wingless Dreamer; Moonstone Arts Center; 30 North; and have two novels, most recently including The Kiss List (2025).

  • David Mulry

    David is a writer from the UK. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He lives and teaches in Georgia.

  • Yuna Kang

    Yuna Kang is a queer, half-deaf, Korean-American writer based in Northern California. She loves postcards, crows, God(x), and cats.

  • Jennivev Reyes
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