The Women Who Submit members included in this post published their work in amazing places during February of 2025, and three of our members heard about these opportunities through WWS programming and/or another member. We appreciate everyone’s commitment to sharing and celebrating their work, especially during these difficult times for our beloved Los Angeles. Thank you and happy submitting!
I’ve included an excerpt from published pieces (if available), along with a link (if available) to where the pieces can be purchased and/or read in their entirety. Please take a moment to extend congratulations to our members who had their work published this month.
Let’s start out by congratulating Rochelle Newman-Carrasco whose creative nonfiction piece “Gathering Variables” was featured in The New York Times’ Modern Love column.
We see flames from our porch. No mandatory evacuation — yet. But my husband and I agree. Let’s prepare. I take my parents’ wedding album. My typewritten play that only exists on paper. I scan shelves, drawers, closets. Thumbing through love letters and legal docs. Why this, and not that? Beyond practicalities, you have to let your gut lead.
Kudos to Laura Sturza who published creative nonfiction piece “A Promise Through Time” with the same New York Times column listed above (excerpt available below). Her article “How These Dynamic Women Won the Ms. Senior America Pageant” was also featured in The Ethel.
We sit in deep recliners that buffer the effects of age, looking out the window at winter’s bare trees, the same ones we watch flourishing in spring. Mom and I wear matching blue wristwatches and check them regularly. She is 99 and counting. We worry about time. But at this moment, we have enough.
Big shoutout to Lisa Eve Cheby for having her chapbooks Contact Tracing, Love Lessons from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Buffy Averts a Mid-Life Apocalypse republished with Strikethrough Press.
Congratulations to Ashton Cynthia Clarke whose poem “Planting for the Harvest” (and others) appeared in Four Feathers Press‘ Poetry Blogspot series.
She lives
a life
well tilled
her time
like spring boughs
laden heavy with faith
and family
harmony and heart
and memories . . .
loves
redolent of summer mamey
take root beside
acid limón of loss
they graft and grow
new fruit inseparable
*Feature image credit to Margaret Gallagher*