As seen on our Join Us! page, Women Who Submit has chapters all across North America! These are just a sample of the work WWS members are getting published:
Publications from the San Francisco Chapter (2)
Lead : Rebecca Gomez Farrell
From L.S. Johnson’s short story, “Properties of Obligate Pearls,” in Issue 020 of New Haven Review:
“You have to know what to look for. Younger, definitely—stones from the elderly are heavy and black, decades of layers dulling the luster. No one wants the weight of a grandmother’s worries around their neck.”
From Ruth Crossman’s “An Election Year” short story in Issue 91 of Sparkle + Blink:
“First the guy from Motorhead dies. On New Year’s Eve the billboards on the venues say RIP Lemmy, and the metal heads hold wakes and mock funeral services in his honor. I’m not a metal head or anything, but it sets a tone.”
From Janna Layton’s poem, “Lock, Shock, and Barrel,” in Polu Texni:
“When we were kids
no one wanted to be the zombie boy
from The Nightmare Before Christmas,
the fat kid flanked by zombie parents
and guided through each day.”
From Rebecca Gomez Farrell’s short story, “Hobgoblin,” a runner-up for the WOW! Women on Writing Fall 2017 Flash Fiction Contest:
“Hobgoblin, they name me. The word’s consonance fills me with venom. If squeezed together on the page, the letters would ooze disgust: hob…gob…lin. It’s a corruption of my time-honored service and an insult to my squat and sturdy frame. To call me that and wonder why I torment them? I feel the evidence is plain.”
Tina LeCount Myers’ fantasy novel, The Song of All, was released by Night Shade Books on 2/20/2018. From her essay, “How My Research Trip Turned into a Homecoming,” at Literary Hub:
“I am an adult orphan. I have no siblings. I have no children. Both my parents have passed, as have their siblings and parents. I have mourned the losses: the sweet grandparents who doted on me, the aunts and uncles who sent birthday cards even when I became an adult, the parents who wanted the best for me, and the children that never happened.”
Also from Tina LeCount Myers, another essay, “The Book that Helped Me Expand My Horizons,” at Tor.Com:
“In 1996, I was a history graduate student on the fast-track to burning out. When I looked across my professional horizon, I saw only frustration and defeat. I had been on the path to becoming a professor for a while and had one remaining hurdle—my dissertation.”