What is Thirty West?
Thirty West was born in November 2015. It was founded as a passion project during undergraduate studies at Temple University. A single logo and a chapbook with a limited print run. Thirty West has been based out of the Philadelphia Metro of Pennsylvania ever since. Thirty West is the home of dozens of award-winning and well-rounded authors, from emerging to established poets and prose authors. At Thirty West, we edit. We design. We assemble. We mail. We nominate awards. We pay. The whole deal or none at all. Our books and wares are important to us, especially those we print and assemble by hand. We aspire to provide you with a wonderful reading experience. Thank you for visiting. With your support, an independent publisher lives to print another day.
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Josh Dale, Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Josh Dale does well with cats and coffee. A native Pennsylvanian, he’s an alumnus of Temple University (BA) & Saint Joseph’s University (MA). He is the author of a poetry collection, Duality Lies Beneath (Thirty West Publishing, 2016), and the novella, The Light to Never Be Snuffed (Alien Buddha Press, 2022). His work has appeared in Bullshit Lit, Drunk Monkeys, Maudlin House, Micro Podcast, Rejection Letters, and as a winner in the 2021 Loud Coffee Press micro-fiction contest. He founded Thirty West in 2015 and has directed Tilde~, Elevator Stories, and the #antiwrimo project’s Those Who Scream: A Novel by 30 Writers and The Ternion. He’s provided editorial and narration services for Elevator Stories from 2020-2022. Find out more on his site, joshdale.co
Chanel Martins, Editor-at-Large
Chanel is a writer and educator from California who has been with Thirty West since 2015. She holds an MA in English Literature and a passion for reading and writing.
Olivia Zarzycki, Senior Editor
Olivia Zarzycki is a Philadelphia-based poet whose most recent work has been published in Dream Boy Book Club, Back Patio Press, Canthius lit mag, and elsewhere, with more work forthcoming. She is an Editor at Thirty West Publishing, based in Pennsylvania. You can find her in the city with her chihuahua Margot or on her website https://oliviazarzycki.com
Caterina Alvarez, Senior Editor
In addition to her position with Thirty West Publishing House, Caterina Alvarez is a Priority Editor at Flash Fiction Magazine and a reader for X-R-A-Y and Fractured Lit. Her work appears in The Atticus Review, Flash Boulevard, Tiny Molecules, Flash Fiction Magazine, and other literary venues. Her work was featured in Wigleaf Top 50 for 2023. She is a longtime member of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and earned her MA from The Annenberg School at USC in 2000. You can find her on Twitter @Caterina445
Maryam Qureshi, Senior Editor
Maryam Qureshi holds an MA in English Literature and Linguistics. A poet, book reviewer, reader, and editor, she has worked as a managing editor for The Elixir Magazine, reader for Tilde~ Journal, and an executive member of the Michigan College English Association. Her work has appeared in journals published by Prolific Press Inc., Failed haiku journal, The Elixir Magazine, and a zine by Alien Buddha Press. Her book of poetry, Songs Of Cardinal was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2021.
Katie Snyder, Spring ‘26 Intern
Katie Snyder is a senior at Kutztown University, majoring in Professional Writing. Her favorite genres to read are literary fiction and poetry. She is currently writing her first novel.
Westies Book Club Members
Kent Winward, Teresa Brader, Matthew Burnside, Hannah Levinson, Mark Finnemore
Afterimages Subscribers
Ross McMeekin, JD Clapp, Joe Taylor, Delores Morelli, Sam Aureli, David Lubar, John Mason, Kirk Lawson, Raechelle Yballe
Patrons on Patreon
Sean Ennis, David Lubar
“T.W. Incog-Neato” patron tally: II