women and nonbinary writers – Women Who Submit

Thank you for celebrating PUBLISHED! 2026 with us! Thanks to our sponsors, Democracy Center, BookSwell, Homework Club, and Tuesday Night Project, we featured nine writers representing the WWS-Los Angeles, WWS-West LA, WWS-Long Beach, and WWS-Ventura chapters, as well as honored 15 new books and publications in journals, news papers, magazines, and anthologies from 80 of our writers!

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This work is not possible without your support! Thanks to our donors, WWS is able to offer free services to women and nonbinary writers across LA County and to nearly 20 chapters both in the US and abroad that include:

Professional development panels and workshops with hybrid options
Individual grants of $400 for BIPOC writers for conference/residency travel fees
Individual grants of up to $100 for submission fees
Online publication opportunities and book reviews with the WWS Blog Series
Open mics and readings featuring WWS members
Outreach to conferences, festivals, and college campuses
Remote community circles and online discussion boards

Help us to reach our $8,000 goal and keep this vibrant community submitting, publishing, advancing, and celebrating!

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Join Women Who Submit in celebrating the publication of our third anthology, TRANSFORMATION! Thanks to the work of Managing Editors, Ryane Granados and Noriko Nakada, Advising Editor, Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera, eight Genre Editors, Lorinda Toledo, Erin Anadkat, Flint, Laura Sturza, Luivette Resto, Hazel Kight Witham, Aruni Wijesinghe, Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley, and publisher Nikia Chaney and Jamii Publishing, our third anthology features poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama from 42 women and nonbinary writers from around the world.

“Given these perilous times of great global and local humanitarian
failures, cruel objectives cemented by morally repugnant mindsets,
and given the history of violence which has proven all too
predictable, I know my words may appear hugely insufficient in
protecting the most vulnerable, may prove never to be enough to
diminish the sorrow and suffering of others, and yet as a writer,
I continue to write.”

Inspired by these words by Helena Maria Viramontes, shared at her AWP 2020 keynote address, Women Who Submit’s third anthology, TRANSFORMATION, centers work that speaks to the ways writers and other artists can promote change in the world.

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