The Women Who Submit members included in this post published their work in amazing places during August of 2025. Four of our committed members heard about an opportunity through WWS programming and/or another member.
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 some time to celebrate yourself and your wonderful accomplishments this last stretch of summer. Thank you and happy submitting!
Congratulations to Tanzila Ahmed whose creative nonfiction piece “Eavesdropping as a Solidarity Tactic” was published in the imprint We Are Civic Media by Northwestern University Press.
Big kudos to Donna Spruijt-Metz whose poetry collection Wu Wei Eats an Egg was published with Ben Yehuda Press.
Shoutout to Dinah Berland whose poem “Between the Lines” was featured in Van Spuk Art Books.
Congratulations to Amy Raasch whose poem “Broken Sonnet for the Phone Call I Didn’t Pick Up” was featured in Tahoma Literary Review (see excerpt below). Her poem “ontology of llorando” was also announced as a winner in Sonora Review‘s Noise Contest, and her poem “Ornament” was selected as a finalist for The Florida Review 2025 Editor’s Award for Poetry.
I heard Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” sung
in Spanish at a funeral last week, twice —
Processional and Communion. Stained glass shook
loose & boomeranged rose-gold sharps into tall-boned
Jesus till he swayed between stone femurs
like a receiver in a phone booth waiting
for his last phone call from God. Your last call
went to voicemail, then you hung up on yourself.
Kudos to Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin whose chapbook As Mexican as a Nopal was selected as a shortlist finalist in Four Feather Press’ Chapbook Prize.
Shoutout to Désirée Zamorano whose novel The Amado Women was republished with Lee & Low Books.
Congratulations to Lisa Eve Cheby whose poem “Witnessing” appeared in Cultural Daily.
last night I dreamt I was interrogated by I.C.E.
they knew about how I ghosted Esteban after one date, about the small, behind the scenes disputes
in our non-profit writers’ group of women who refuse to submit.
I only wanted to imagine a world of liberation and joy,
not how to integrate the mundane with the horrific.
on the 4th of July with the day laborers in the Home Depot parking lot
we ate mango and piña cream paletas from Sal’s cart.
Kudos to Heather Pegas whose creative nonfiction piece “Family Lore: A Semi-History” was featured in The Muleskinner Journal.
Maybe Connie made her special soup at the diner, maybe she saves one bowl to bring home.
Perhaps she intends it for her father, or maybe she was keeping it for herself after shopping, vacuuming, washing, drying and folding the family laundry. My beautiful aunt, the one they only half-jokingly call “the maid,” puts her soup in the icebox, I imagine, saving it for later.
It is not to be. Her brothers come home all at once, and they encounter the soup.
I want that, says George, the eldest. I’m going to eat it.
Not so fast, says Manny, the second son, muscling in. I want it too.
And lastly, shoutout to Dilys Wyndham Thomas whose poem entitled “Titan[ic]” was published in Mslexia Magazine’s 107th Issue.
*Feature image credit to Margaret Gallagher*