Workshops

Women Who Submit facilitates free quarterly workshops and panels on writing, publishing, career building, and community. These workshops and panels are 75 minutes long and are led by local professional women and nonbinary writers, editors, publishers, agents, and other leaders in literary publishing.

WWS workshops and panels are archived on our YouTube channel

WWS workshops and panels are followed by an in-person new member orientation. Interested writers much attend a new member orientation in order to become a member of WWS-Los Angeles. There are no membership fees to join. Registration is required and opens one month prior to the event.

If you are not in Los Angeles, please visit our Join Us page to find a chapter in your area.

NECESSARY MATERIALS: 
– Laptop for orientation, research, and online submissions
– Crafted poems/essay/short story: something submission ready

If you are new to WWS, please register HERE.

Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 10:00am Pacific: “A Conversation with Carmen Giménez.” This conversation will be on Zoom with an in person meet up at Avenue 50 Studio (131 N Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042).

About the Panel: Carmen Giménez is Director of Graywolf Press. She will be interviewed by WWS Board member and Tia Chucha Press Associate Editor, Luivette RestoTogether Giménez and Resto will discuss indie publishing, the editorial process, and traversing the literary publishing world as Latinas/women of color. 

Bios: 

Carmen Giménez is the publisher and director of Graywolf Press. She was a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow and is the author of several books including Be Recorder, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award.

Luivette Resto (she/her), Living on Islands Not Found on Maps (FlowerSong Press), a mother, teacher, poet, and Wonder Woman fanatic, was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico but proudly raised in the Bronx. She is a CantoMundo and Macondo Fellow, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is on the Board of Directors for Women Who Submit. Some of her latest work can be read on Spillway, North American Review, and the anthology, Gathering. Her first two books of poetry Unfinished Portrait and Ascension were published by Tía Chucha Press where she is now Associate Editor. Resto lives in the San Gabriel Valley with her three children aka revolutionaries.

SCHEDULE

10:00am-11:15am: “A Conversation with Carmen Giménez” (On Zoom and broadcasted at Avenue 50 Studio)

11:15am-11:45am: Snack Break

11:45am-1:00pm: In-person New Member Orientation

11:45am-1:00pm: In-person Returning Member Submission Party

Upcoming in 2024: 

Saturday, May 11 – Workshop on Connecting with Librarians and Libraries

Saturday, August 10 – WWS Submission Conference at Plaza de la Raza

Saturday, November 9 – Generative Writing Workshop TBD

PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS are archived on our YouTube Channel.

5 Replies to “Workshops”

  1. I would like to join WWS as I am in the midst of the arduous process of submitting query letters for my first novel. I heard about WWS through Lisbeth Coiman and it sounds like a group of would very much benefit from. I plan to attend the April orientation in Los Angeles and would like to receive any emails from WWS

    1. Hello Ronnnie! So glad to hear you’ll be attending in April. At that time, you’ll get more information about signing up to receive emails from us. In the meantime, you find any up-to-date info on Twitter (@WomenWhoSubmit) and Facebook (Facebook.com/WomenWhoSubmit). This is Ramona. I have short black hair. Come say “hi” at the Orientation!

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