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

Thirty West

Thirty West was founded as a passion project when our founder was an undergraduate at Temple University. It started as a logo and a single chapbook with a limited print run. That was in 2015. Ever since, the hand-made aspect of the chapbook has been paramount, augmenting the reading experience with both common and unique materials. We publish primarily poetry, literary fiction, and nonfiction manuscripts, and our imprint literary journals. We do not have a theme, but if something sticks with us, we will champion it. There is an innate feeling when you pick up a book and you feel the magnetism pull you in. Be it the subject matter, the design, the author's photo, or a mix of any other factors. Every book project comes with new responsibilities and new expectations. Our books become akin to snowflakes—no one is the same. You are bound to value what we publish even more the longer you possess it.

Our fervent, award-winning, and often debut, authors become family from the day we first read their manuscripts and strive to include them in a diverse, supportive, and ingenious literary community. We like to edit. We like to design. We like to assemble books. We like to pay our authors. The whole deal or none; it is in our blood. We are already part of your collective consciousness as you read this. You may be queueing up a manuscript and finishing your cover letter. You may be here to buy your loved one/colleague/friend’s book. You may just be enjoying a carefree stroll through our site for the first time. No matter your purpose, you are here, and we welcome you. With your support, independent publishing, and the team, live to publish another day.

Please feel free to peruse over 8 years of books, articles, and past events to see all that we have accomplished and all that is to come.