GATHERING: A Women Who Submit Anthology
Feminist Magazine podcast on KPFK, March 9, 2022
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Lynn Harris Ballen interviews fiction editor and contributor Ryane Granados and managing editor Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera about Women Who Submit’s origins, development, and how our community responded to isolation during a global pandemic. Also hear Ryane read her TED Talk monologue from the anthology.
How We Gather: A Celebration of Women Who Submit’s New Anthology GATHERING
Spectrum News, March 8, 2022
Thea Pueschel talks about their own writing journey, Women Who Submit, our response to Safer at Home, and the GATHERING event with WeHo Reads Road to Joy on March 16, 2022 @6pm featuring Hazel Kight Witham, Flint, Noriko Nakada, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, and Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera. Watch the recorded event here!
The Many Different Kinds of Writers Groups
by Jessica Kashiwabara
Poets & Writers, March/April 2022
“Writers need writers. And there are many ways to help one another’s practice.” Women Who Submit is one of many ways that writing does not have to be a solitary act.
WRITING LIFE: How Writing in Community Rocked My Writing
by Laura Sturza
Hippocampus Magazine, February 7, 2022
One member shares her experiences in various writing communities. During the pandemic, she joined WWS weekly virtual check-ins to report her successes and challenges and offer applause for other members.
Submissions: The Harsh Reality and How to Improve Your Odds
by Thea Pueschel
Shut Up & Write! June 3, 2021
Rejection is part of the process of getting your work out into the world. To improve your odds when rejection inevitably finds its way to your inbox, Thea Pueschel offers some pointers to help ease the painful experience.
A Decade of Women Who Submit
by Thea Prieto
Poets & Writers, May/June 2021
In July, WWS celebrates TEN years of hitting SEND. “Today Women Who Submit spans North America, with submission parties in sixteen U.S. states and two countries.” We continue to increase gender parity in publishing, supporting VIDA’s mission.
Self Doubt and the Submission Process
by Eva Recinos
Catapult, April 6, 2021
In the first installment of this three-part column, Eva Recinos explores how we can get out of our own heads and into a space where we can submit work.
CLMP Includes Accolades in Year-End List
CLMP, December 2020
CLMP included Accolades: A Women Who Submit Anthology, in its list of hybrid works, anthologies, and children’s books published in 2020.
Submission as Social Action
by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Lunch Ticket, June 2015
On the Women Who Submit name: “Recently, our Facebook page received a message from a woman who was recommended to our site by a friend. She wrote: ‘I have to say, I was thrown by the name of the group. I lived through the ’50s …Cool idea…scary name.’
This statement made me realize that Women Who Submit is in fact the perfect name for our organization, because at its core it is a social action that helps women break free of societal boundaries caused by centuries of female submission.”
WHAT WOULD GEORGE CLOONEY DO?
by Kate Maruyama
Arts Collide, May 1, 2015
On WWS and VIDA: “[Women Who Submit] saw not only the disparity in numbers in publishing, as reported in the VIDA count but knew that there were women around them simply not submitting their work. The perfectionism spoken of in ‘The Confidence Gap” was at work. Women Who Submit represent only a few of the women doing wonderful work out there, encouraging and supporting women to get their voices heard.”
Submission Blitz: Finding Courage at a Writers Conference
by Melissa Chadburn
Poets & Writers, March/April 2015
On WWS Submission Parties: “When we come together we start with some snacks and drinks, and maybe a little chisme–but then we quickly get into setting our goals…A candle is lit, and for a couple of quiet hours we draft queries and hit ‘send.’ Each time one of us submits she announces it, and we all applaud.”