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!
What is a Tier 1 journal, you may ask? While the title *can* be a little subjective, and the definitions can be slippery, in general, Tier 1 means the journal pays its contributors, has a wide distribution, often features writing that gets nominated for awards, holds contests, and is widely known. We have more information about submitting to Tier 1 here in this blog post written by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo.
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!
At our local event, we topped last year’s record of 35 submissions with FORTY SUBMISSIONS! We submitted to Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni, Fourth Genre, New England Review, Brevity, Frontier, Made in LA, Palette, Georgia Review, and many more!
Did you submit during our annual online worldwide submission blitz? Leave us a comment here or on our Facebook page and tell us where!
We want to thank The Faculty Bar and Trevor the bartender for taking care of us for the third year in a row!