The Women Who Submit members included in this post published their work in amazing places during September 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. Thank you and happy submitting!
Congratulations to Dilys Wyndham Thomas whose poem “Titan[ic]” was published in Mslexia Magazine‘s 107th issue.
Kudos to Elizabeth Galoozis who published the poems “I keep falling asleep in the motherland” and “they made us” in Santa Fe Literary Review. See excerpt of the former below:
I came into this world
landlocked.
They pulled me out
by the same ankles
the sea now circles,
pushes my feet
to the edge of the land
I came from.
The waves tug at my blood,
lulling me,
slowing me,
whispering
why
would you
ever
leave.
Shoutout to Maria Caponi whose poem “I Am Not a Good Tourist” was featured in the City of Manhattan’s Older Adults Program September Newsletter.
I don’t like guided tours
I’m not a joiner or a follower
I’m not good with large groups
I’m not a regular person
I want to pause, linger, drift,
where others march in lockstep
and
I want to keep going,
where others want to stay
Huge congratulations to Louise Moore who published a poetry collection entitled Poems to the Muses: To All The Women I have loved and Will love.
Kudos to Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin whose poem “As Mexican as a Nopal” was announced as a short list finalist for the 2025 Four Feathers Press Chapbook Prize. Her poem “Mother and Child From Gaza” also appeared in the 2025 Southern California Haiku Study Group Anthology.
Shoutout to Azalea Aguilar whose poem “Last Seen in Oakland Park” was featured in Somos En Escrito Magazine. She also published “My Father and I Meet for Coffee to Discuss War” in Liebestraum Review and “Sun in Your Eyes” with South Broadway Press. Excerpt of the latter is available below:
is he coming or going
slamming of a screen door
angry or rushed
in or out
her or him
idling in front of a fridge
hunger or thirst
boredom or pleasure
is it the beginning or the end
I tell her I can’t
remember
a time before
Kudos to Carla Rachel Sameth for her publication of the poems “Everything Here Is Broken,” “A Magpie Soars Across the Sky,” “The Darkest Water,” “Like My Skater Son” and “Ghazal of the 3 PM Wall,” in Cholla Needles 105. Excerpt of the latter available below:
They asked me, What do you do when you hit the 3 PM wall?
I don’t know but I can’t even remember the age of my baby.
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It was after a faux rave, a celebration for a movie about a rave.
A 2 AM breakfast, the question came at me, I was a sage with a baby.
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I’ll be up by 5 AM, I said, uncertain if I’d be nursing or playing.
All I knew is that I had six never-born, a raging ex-husband, and one baby.
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What do you do when you hit the wall? they laughed the question again.
Strangely awake, what happens after being up all night, I was a rampage, a baby.
Shoutout to Michelle Otero who poem “Birthright” was featured in American Poetry Review. She also published the memoir piece “Stepson, I have been writing to you in my head since we met…” in Letters to Our Children: an Anthology.
Lastly, congratulations to publisher Brenda Vaca and all the contributors of Riot of Roses Publishing House’s new anthology Xicanxfuturism: Gritos for Tomorrow Codex I.
*Feature image credit to Margaret Gallagher*