The Women Who Submit members included in this post published their work in amazing places during August of 2026. Three 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 Marya Summers whose poem “Portrait” was published in Artemis Journal.
At the center of a vortex of light,
she will re-create herself –
a windblown silhouette
approaching centrifugal grace
A storm, a twister, a twisted sister –
she once was the chaos of grief
Kudos to Amy Raasch whose three poems “Air Hunger,” “Heard at Mom’s Funeral While Wearing a Green Dress,” and “How My Mother’s Kitchen Table is Like Van Gogh’s ‘A Pair of Leather Clogs'” were featured in Outskirts Literary Journal. She also published the poem “Exit Interview” in The Pinch and “Broken Sonnet for the Phone Call I Didn’t Pick Up” in Tahoma Literary Review. Excerpt of the latter is available below:
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.
Shoutout to Jay O’Shea whose fiction piece “Bloodford Creek” appeared in The Dread Literary Review.
The way I count it, the night my brother had that run in with the dog was around when the chicks started dying. A scream of tires woke me, and I looked out the window in time to see the old Chevy a phantom under the porch light. Billy tumbled out of the passenger seat, missing the porch and hitting his head on the column. He slumped there as the truck door slammed from inside. Another screech, another sharp swivel, and mud struck Billy, the porch, and probably our front door as well. I grabbed the Narcan from my nightstand and pounded down the stairs, not caring if I woke Momma and Daddy. When I reached Billy, he had pulled himself upright, looking at the naloxone in my hand.
Huge congratulations to Julia Gaytán whose book Ion Love has been released with Riots of Roses Publishing House.
Kudos to Jesenia Chavez for her publication of three poems “Rainbow Dress,” The Night of the Election,” and “Coyotes” in Flowersong Press’ Anger is a Gift: An Anthology of Resistance and Response Poems to the 2024 Election.
Shoutout to Stephanie Barbé Hammer whose poems “Riding the Metro D Line” and “Found Poem on the Amtrak” appeared in Beach Chair Press Magazine. Excerpt of the former is available below:
The marvelous machines have come
At last to Beverly Hills!
They zip through tunnels then slide
You up shining metal
Stairs and boxes
To a whole different
Part of the city! –
It’s miraculous: it takes HOURS to drive these
Congested LA distances and
Walking? Forget about it – but
Now you can go to the theater or the stadium or the
Museum or that big Beauty of a main
Train station in 26 minutes.
Or the reverse – which is what
I do.
“Excuse me” says a very young man in
An orange vest to me on the platform
“Here is your paper map”
Congratulations to Anne Ramallo who published “Awake” in Radical Catalyst Art and Literary Journal and “Luna Moth” in SillyGoosePress. See excerpt of the latter below:
Why do I return
to what burns me?
Why do I beg
the porch light
when there’s so much
jasmine sighing honey
into night’s dim corners?
Some of us emerge mouthless,
speaking silently in scent.
Born for love alone,
we starve with wings entwined.
*Feature image credit to Margaret Gallagher*