On Saturday, September 15th, WWS held our 5th Annual Submission Blitz!
The Blitz is a nationwide virtual celebration of Women Who Submit’s work. It’s a day when we invite women and non-binary writers to submit to at least one Tier 1 journal. The idea is to have a coordinated effort on one day in which the slush piles of Tier 1 journals get flooded with submission by underrepresented writers. Anyone can join from anywhere!
We also host a local Blitz meetup in Los Angeles, because what would Women Who Submit be without a party? Our first WWS Submission Blitz was in September 2014 at Hermosillo Bar in Highland Park. This year, we gathered at The Faculty Bar in East Hollywood at 12:30, with plenty of food and drinks to fuel our furious fingers as we typed away! (There was even a beer on tap called Submission.)
At our local party, we tallied up 35 submissions in four hours. Our members submitted to Tahoma Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, Indiana Review, Poetry Magazine, Salt Hill, CutBank, The Sun, and more! We queried agents, applied for fellowships and residencies, and perfected our CVs.
All in all, it was a successful and fun-filled day. Thank you to everyone who came out to join us, or submitted from home. We hope that everyone’s writing gets accepted! We love you all for tipping the imbalances in publishing.
