We, Women Who Submit, want to celebrate the last eight years of submissions, rejections, and acceptances with one giant nationwide online submission party.
We are inviting all women and non-binary writers around the country to submit to at least one tier-one journal (Or maybe five!) on September 12, 2020. Let’s inundate these top journals with our best work and shake up their slush piles!
How to Participate:
- Mark yourself as going on Submission Blitz Facebook Event Page.
- Before the day, study this list of tier-one journals with links to submission guidelines curated by Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera
- On September 12, 2020 submit to at least one tier one magazines from where ever you are in the world
- Notify us on Facebook Event Page in the comments, on Twitter, or Instagram (@womenwhosubmit), so we can celebrate you with lots of claps and cheers
- Follow the stories on Instagram throughout the day for encouraging words and tips from members
Submission Blitz: Origins
After the first VIDA Count was published in 2009 illustrating the dearth of women’s voices in tier one publications, members of VIDA, Women in Literary Arts, began asking the editors of these journals why they thought the numbers were unbalanced. The most common answer was women don’t submit as often as men. In response, Women Who Submit and the monthly submission party was created in 2011 to support women and nonbinary writers in submitting their work for publication in order to raise the number of such voices coming across editors’ desks.
A submission blitz is a call to writers to submit their well-crafted and cared for work en masse to tier-one literary journals that historically have shown gender disparities in their publications. A submission blitz is a call to action. Our first WWS Submission Blitz was in September 2014 at Hermosillo Bar in Highland Park, CA.
Each year since then participation has continued to thrive online and has expanded to in-person meet-ups across the country.
Where to Submit Poetry:
Poetry
Kenyon Review
American Poetry Review
New England Review
Southern Review
Threepenny Review
Paris Review
Gettysburg Review
Sun
Cincinnati Review
Ploughshares
Georgia Review
Michigan Quarterly Review
Blackbird
Five Points
Copper Nickel
Spillway
New Ohio Review
Poetry Northwest
Agni
Where to Submit Creative Nonfiction:
Sun
Georgia Review
Granta
Ploughshares
Salmagundi
Gettysburg Review
n+1
Threepenny Review
The Point
Creative Nonfiction
Agni
Fourth Genre
New England Review
Narrative
New Letters
River Teeth
Conjunctions
Iowa Review
Antioch Review
Brevity
Where to Submit Fiction
Ploughshares
Paris Review
Conjunctions
One Story
Threepenny Review
Gettysburg Review
Kenyon Review
Southern Review
Noon
Missouri Review
Virginia Quarterly Review
Georgia Review
A Public Space
Iowa Review
Narrative
Bellevue Literary Review
New England Review
Sun
American Short Fiction
Agni