old rules / Ella Rockoff
untitled / Ansley Pecoul
Weeping Oak bears promise / Elana Morchower
on the city’s western border / reared against the sky /
proudly stands our alma mater / as the years go by
Welcome to The Western Border.
We're a literary arts magazine made by students at Birmingham-Southern College. We publish poetry, prose, art, lyrics, screenplays, and anything creative your mind makes.
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
​At The Western Border, we look beyond all known lines and mile markers to imagine artistic frontiers that know no roads and fly in the face of maps, and with our eyes on the horizon and faces to the wind, we welcome lawless creations, harbor wild inventions, and fan the flames of untamed making. We aspire to nurture powerful, well-crafted, fresh, engaging new work that traverses genres, audiences, timelines, form, and feeling. Bring us your monsters and your wyrd tales, your origin stories and visions. Our edges begin where others’ end—