Workshops

Women Who Submit facilitates free quarterly workshops and panels on writing, publishing, career building, and community. These workshops and panels are 75 minutes long and are led by local professional women and nonbinary writers, editors, publishers, agents, and other leaders in literary publishing.

WWS workshops and panels are archived on our YouTube channel. 

WWS workshops and panels are followed by an in-person new member orientation. Interested writers must attend a new member orientation in order to become a member of WWS-Los Angeles. There are no membership fees to join. Registration is required and opens one month prior to the event.

If you are not in Los Angeles, please visit our Join Us page to find a chapter in your area.

Lavender event flyer that says, "Women Who Submit Presents Muslim VDay Card Making with Taz Ahmed." There is an image of artist Taz Ahmed. She is a brown woman with middle-length brown hair. She is wearing a white tank top and a large tan brimmed hat and is standing in the desert. Other details on the even included.

JOIN US: Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 10:00am Pacific for “Muslim VDay Card Making” with Taz Ahmed. This workshop will be in person at 826LA (1714 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026) with a Zoom option for WWS members.

TO REGISTER: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/wws-literary-workshop

SCHEDULE (all times PACIFIC):

10:00am-11:15am: “Muslim VDay Card Making” with Taz Ahmed

11:15am-11:30am: Snack Break

11:30am-1:00pm: In person New Member Orientation with Sakae Manning

11:30am-1:00pm: In person Submission Party with Lauren Eggert-Crowe

NECESSARY MATERIALS: 
– Laptop for orientation, research, and online submissions
– Crafted poems/essay/short story: something submission ready

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Come make your own satirically flirty and darkly humorous set of valentines day cards that heal the darkness in your heart with artist activist Taz Ahmed. Started in 2011 as a personal counterculture art project by Taz Ahmed, the six #MuslimVDay card images created yearly have taken the internet like drones dropping bombs. Muslims love. Muslims laugh. Muslim have snark. If these cards make you laugh, but uncomfortably, they have done their job. Over the years, #MuslimVDay cards have been covered by CNN, NPR, NBC News, Buzzfeed, The Aerogram, Angry Asian Man, The Sporkful, Brown Girl Magazine, Colorlines and #MuslimVDay card workshops have been hosted at the Smithsonian APA Lit Fest and Shangri-La Center for Islamic Arts and Culture.

 BIO: Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed plays at the intersections of pop and politics through a variety of mediums and actions. Motivated by her Bangladeshi and Muslim upbringing in Southern California, she started her career as an activist by creating a political voice for those most marginalized in the backlash of September 11th. In 2004, she founded South Asian American Voting Youth (SAAVY). She continued on to have a twenty year career as an electoral organizer, mobilizing over 500,000 Asian American & Pacific Islanders voters to the polls using in-language culturally competent tools. Essayist, poet, podcaster and screenwriter, her media content developed around creating a counternarrative for the communities that she belonged to – whether youth, Muslim, South Asian or counterculture.

UPCOMING IN 2026: 

February 14, 2026 – Muslim VDay Card Making with Taz Ahmed at 826LA

May 16, 2026 – Panel of Top Tier Editors at Plummer Park and Sponsored by WeHo Arts

August 8, 2026 – Q&A with Top Professional Authors at Plummer Park and Sponsored by WeHo Arts

November 14, 2026 – Zine Making

PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS are archived on our YouTube Channel.

5 Replies to “Workshops”

  1. I would like to join WWS as I am in the midst of the arduous process of submitting query letters for my first novel. I heard about WWS through Lisbeth Coiman and it sounds like a group of would very much benefit from. I plan to attend the April orientation in Los Angeles and would like to receive any emails from WWS

    1. Hello Ronnnie! So glad to hear you’ll be attending in April. At that time, you’ll get more information about signing up to receive emails from us. In the meantime, you find any up-to-date info on Twitter (@WomenWhoSubmit) and Facebook (Facebook.com/WomenWhoSubmit). This is Ramona. I have short black hair. Come say “hi” at the Orientation!

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