About

Some presses begin with a mission statement. Ours begins with noticing.

Sunlight hitting a patch of green just so, stopping you mid-thought.

A door at the end of a passage, its brass handle cool and waiting.

A line in a journal, winding through your mind and refusing to leave.

The everyday, seen suddenly with the shock of a first time.

There’s an art to noticing, one that manifests art. Westlook Press grew from that belief.

Here you’ll find:

Fell Swoops— where poems, prose, and art arrive unexpectedly

Passages— where curiosity is rewarded and revisiting reveals something new

A collection of journals— not just for writing but for wandering, gathering, returning

Together they form a place devoted to the practice of noticing.

We hope you linger and that something catches your eye. We hope you see the world a little differently than when you arrived.

Westlook Press
An Independent Literary Press
for Curious Minds & Creative Work

Kristin Ellowe is a writer, poet, and the founder of Westlook Press. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington and a BA in English with a Creative Writing emphasis from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she served as an editor of The Madison Review and was actively involved in literary publishing and readings. Now based in the Pacific Northwest, she’s taught poetry and writing, and her poems have appeared in various literary journals. Her work draws together voices, images, ideas, forms, and fragments, listening for what emerges between them.