The Women Who Submit members included in this post published their work in amazing places during June of 2026. Four of our committed members heard about their publication 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 Lois P. Jones for publishing two poems “Frida as Bell” and “Housekeeping: Muzot as the Great Keep” in Rhino Poetry’s Fiftieth Anniversary Issue.
Huge kudos to Anne Ramallo whose two poems “High Praise” and “If Birds Had Tongues Like You” were featured in Mosslight Magazine Issue One (excerpt of the latter is available below). Her work was also featured in the poetry anthology Made From Midnight: Delirium with Poets in the Pines.
My chest heaves with secrets
that drift between the blue and breeze—
gossip between brook and stone,
the silent longings of sequoias,
the mushrooms’ complaints,
as they suck venom from earth.
Shoutout to Bonnie S. Kaplan whose poem “Marina del Rey, California, 1986” appeared in White Winged Doves: A Stevie Nicks Poetry Anthology.
Congratulations to Lili Lang whose poem “If I had 101 Lives” was picked up by Blue Marble Review.
I was once posed an icebreaker
It started out clean and easy
With a would you rather
Eat worms or have spiders crawl over you in your sleep
Then because I hang out with
Perpetually pretentious poets with something to prove
Who are always slightly high
They asked
What would you do if you had 101 lives
And me
Being simultaneously melodramatic and emotionally repressed
Thought
I would save one for my mother
Huge kudos to Desiree Zamorano whose short story collection Amarisa’s Cooking Pot: Tales of Life in All its Wonders was published with University of Nevada Press.
Shoutout to Elizabeth Galoozis whose poem “If my family had never emigrated from Greece” appeared in Whale Road Review.
When you inevitably arrive,
I take your hand
to help you on my boat,
surprise you
with my tenderness.
Make dark eyes at you
as we dangle our feet
and I tell you
about my island.
I find myself wondering
why, my whole life,
I’ve been drawn
to women like you.
Congratulations to Jesenia Chavez whose poem “Aquí, no hay mentirosas” was featured as part of Mentirosas: the Zine.
Cuando era niña, todas las mujeres que yo conocía decían la verdad. No, no mentían, más bien se aguantaban, había mucho que nos querían ocultar, pero las chiquillas chismosas como yo, escuchábamos todo. Si te tocaba suerte, y no te ibas a dormir, podías ver cómo se desahogaban entre ellas, soltando las penas.
Kudos to Angela M. Franklin who published an interview article entitled “Catching Lightning with Ariana Benson” in Lunch Ticket as well as two poems “Reflections of a Smoke Detector” and “2000 episodes” in Inlandia Institute’s 88 Unashamed Black Mental Health Stories. Excerpt of the former is available below:
So much has been written, and so much and not enough at the same time about the experiences of slavery, the brutality, the suffering, the just profound loss. Every day you were enslaved. You lost something every day and understood that somehow love still existed. In all of that, there are love stories of enslaved people. There are love stories of children of the enslaved. And we’re the product of that, right. We wouldn’t have survived if the love had died, and so, finding a way to write about the love just because I feel like I hadn’t seen that. And I feel like I knew it existed and wanted to find a way to balance them and to hold them both in our hands at once.
Shoutout to Gracie Azua whose poems “home land” and “My City Lives In One Zip Code” appeared in Acentos Review (excerpt of the latter is available below).
Arms outstretched, my fingertips reach end to end of my city
As beautiful as the day I left her,
Smells collectively of discounted weed and overpriced manure
Roaming down her streets and avenues
I can remember,
The señor sleeping on the bench next to the veterans memorial everyday
Sitting on a rusty metal bench with flaky blue paint
His meaty, grayed hands holding onto his shopping cart.
He held his smile like a sword against the summer heat,
While I stuffed myself in the corners
Of the dusty library across the street,
Congratulations to Joyce Loh whose creative nonfiction piece “We Could Send It by Post” was featured in Pure Slush’s New York Great Cities Vol. 3.
Kudos to Elise LeSage whose article “The Lazy Writer’s Guide to World-Building” was published in The Writer’s Chronicle.
In middle school, I took a stab at writing my first novel, vaguely postapocalyptic sci-fi. This was 2011, when dystopias like The Hunger Games dominated the market. Though I was enamored by the trend, I found outlining the practical parts of my apocalypse—Who dropped the nukes? What powered the surveillance cameras?—rather tedious.
I never finished that manuscript. In fact, for a few years, I turned away from writing fantasy and sci-fi completely. Leave speculative spaces to the authors willing to create their own Silmarillions, I figured. I just wasn’t cut out for the game.
Huge shoutout to Audrey Shipp whose poetry collection Poetry/Poesía/Poésie in AfroDiaspora was recently released.
Congratulations to Marya Summers whose poem “August Complex with Vehicular Homelessness” was featured in Five Points: A Journal of Literature & Art.
As fire progressed and ocean pounded
even in the heaving, glaring
terror of that night, I became a soft
lamp glowing inside. Ahead, fire
glowered at the ridge, the tree line ominous
orange-red; behind me, the black
tantrums of the Northern Pacific
crashed, shaking my little camper
where I’d taken refuge on a seaside
cliff from a convergence of lightning
fires that chased me
Kudos to Romaine Washington whose poem “Sandprints” appeared in Inlandia Institute’s 88 Unashamed Black Mental Health Stories.
Shoutout to Lauren Eggert-Crowe who published the poem “Pandemic Pantoum” in The Florida Review‘s Spring 2026 issue.
*Feature image credit to Margaret Gallagher*