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Dear Readers and Past Contributors, Speckled Trout Review’s very own Nancy Dillingham is Mountain Made’s (Asheville, NC) featured poet in the ongoing series Inside the Artist’s Studio. In the interview, Nancy gives a glimpse into her writing-process and the inspiration behind her poetry collections. https://mtnmade.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-with-nancy-dillingham-asheville-poet/ Peace&hope, Kevin J. McDanielFounder and an editor of Speckled TroutContinue reading “Nancy Dillingham Interview”

Dear readers, Speckled Trout Review is happy to announce the publication of Spring 2020, which features work by thirty-three poets. We thank all contributors who shared their words with this fledgling publication. The submission window for Fall 2020, print issue on CRISIS, will open August 1. Specific guidelines will be announced then. Peace&hope, The editors

Dear Readers and Contributors, The submission window for Spring 2020 closed on April 16. Spring 2020 will go live in early May. Our next submission window will open August 1 for the Fall 2020 issue, which will be a print issue pertaining to the theme of Crisis, details of which, including submission guidelines, will beContinue reading “Spring 2020”

Speckled Trout Review is an independent literary magazine published, at this time, in an electronic format. We like good storytelling in poems metaphorically rich and ripe with imagery, poems in which every word counts, poems that look like poems. Good rhythm is nice, too. However, abstract is not our thing; neither is overt political stuff.Continue reading “About Us”

*We will begin reading submissions on February 1 for the second issue of Speckled Trout Review (Spring 2020), which will be published in early May. The deadline for submissions is April 15. Editors of Speckled Trout Review welcome submissions of unpublished poetry (nothing previously published in an electronic publication of any kind or print) forContinue reading “Submission Guidelines”