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, 2016), RAGE: Stories, a fiction chapbook (Thirty West, 2025), 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 writer and editor based in Philadelphia. Her work can be found in various publications, and her first chapbook, strained, is available with Bottlecap Press. Read more at 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.

 
 

Jennivev Reyes, Publishing Assistant

Jennivev Reyes is a fresh graduate of Hawaii Pacific University with a B.A. in English. She is the former managing editor of Hawaii Pacific Review and Wanderlust. She is a Buddhist with a love for all things eerie. Her poetry and thriller fiction have won scholarships and awards as an undergraduate. Residing in Washington state, Jennivev loves working at local coffee shops. Her favorite book is Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu.

 
 

Dan Jones, Editorial/Reading Assistant

Dan Jones is an author of lyrical, voice-driven fiction and numinous poetry concerned with grief, faith, violence, memory, and spiritual fracture. Writing as Damn Jones, he is the author of two novellas, two short stories, and a poetry chapbook. Originally from Appalachian Ohio, he now resides in the Ozarks of Missouri, and has a background in the mental health field.

 
 

Westies Book Club Members

Kent Winward, Teresa Brader, Matthew Burnside, Hannah Levinson,

Mark Finnemore, Neil Blackman, Liz deBeer

Afterimages Subscribers

Ross McMeekin, JD Clapp, Joe Taylor, Delores Morelli, Sam Aureli, David Lubar, Kirk Lawson,

Raechelle Yballe, Cindy Flynn, Fran Abrams, Heain Joung, Babi Rani Poudel, Amy Lyons

Patrons on Patreon

Sean Ennis, David Lubar

“T.W. Incog-Neato” patron tally: II