WHEW. It’s crazy times out there, amirite? Just when we were thinking it couldn’t be any worse (partisan here: remember the GW Bush years?) society, the economy, the planets, Nature, LIFE serve as reminders that, as Event Horizon, one of THE classic 90s horror films states, “Hell is only a word; The reality is much, …
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I’ve never written an entire book, much less published one. And why? “Faith. Faith that [my] story is worth telling.”
by Ramona Pilar This isn’t the first time we, as a species on this globe, have experienced an illness that impacts every demographic facet of society. An illness that careens through the bullshit hierarchies and infects indiscriminately. This is, however, the first time a new or “novel” virus has emerged during this current era. A …
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In light of the current state of affairs surrounding the COVID-19 virus, I’ve opted to switch out my original idea for this month’s post for my personal take on self-isolation, self-quarantine, and social distancing during this pandemic. As someone who has been practicing all three for a while (for various reasons not to do with …
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by Ramona Pilar About this Column: When I was about to graduate form Graduate School, I realized I had no idea what I was supposed to do with an MFA in Creative Writing. I was born and raised in the second tier of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, a survival mode of sorts: living moment to …
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The Women Who Submit blog is now open for submissions for our bi-monthly publication. We publish on the first and third Monday of the month. Submissions are now CLOSED for personal essays and articles. The submission window will reopen in January 2024. Submissions are OPEN for book reviews and are ongoing. Wondering what to submit to …
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference is next week, and Women Who Submit is here to help you maneuver through the mayhem. If you’re unfamiliar with the AWP conference, it is the largest writers conference in the nation that lasts four days. It’s typically in the winter, and it moves around the …
Drapo Vodou or “Voodoo Flag” are traditionally the work of practicing Vodou priests and their followers. They are displayed in Vodou sanctuaries and carried at ceremonies.
Thanks to a grant from the Latino Community Foundation and California Arts Council, Women Who Submit is offering free workshops in poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, screenwriting, and hybrid social justice writing to local and chapter members during the month of July. The 2024 WWS Summer Writers Workshop seeks to build access to expensive and competitive …
by Thea Pueschel There are gates that some of us are born outside of. We may try to scale the barbed fence, but without guidance, we only wind up nicked and wounded. When I grew up in Orcutt, California, an unincorporated city in northern Santa Barbara County in the 80s and 90s, these barbed wired …
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