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 much 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.
NECESSARY MATERIALS:
– Laptop for orientation, research, and online submissions
– Crafted poems/essay/short story: something submission ready
If you are new to WWS, please register HERE.
Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 10:00am Pacific: “Tell Your Intersectional, Intercultural, or Just Plain Unpredictable Story” with Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang. This workshop and facilitator will be in person at the Avenue 50 Studio (131 N Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042) with a Zoom option for members.
About the workshop: Leads participants through exercises that spark spontaneous, truthful writing about their experiences of intersectionality, intercultural identity, or “just” life. This can help them to explore, process, question, grieve, and laugh about those experiences, as well as begin (or continue) working on a memoir, solo show, keynote, or essay.
Bios:
Elizabeth Liang (aka Lisa) is an actress, writer, producer, speaker, and workshop leader. Her one-woman show, Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey, toured internationally from 2013 to 2019. It is now an award-winning film on DVD and streamable. Lisa has acted on stage, new media, television, and film. She is also a published essayist; co-host of the longest running podcast on the multiracial experience, Hapa Happy Hour; and an autobiographical storytelling workshop leader. She delivers keynotes on intercultural and intersectional storytelling. Lisa grew up in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Morocco, Egypt, and Connecticut. She graduated from Wesleyan University.
SCHEDULE
10:00am-11:15am: “Tell Your Intersectional, Intercultural, or Just Plain Unpredictable Story”(In-person at Avenue 50 Studio with a Zoom option for members)
11:15am-11:45am: Snack Break
11:45am-1:00pm: In-person New Member Orientation
11:45am-1:00pm: In-person Returning Member Submission Party
Upcoming in 2025:
To be announced soon
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS are archived on our YouTube Channel.
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
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!
looking forward to meeting you all
I am interested in starting a group in the Reno and Sparks areas of Northern Nevada, where would I begin, please?
You can reach out to the Chapter Liason https://womenwhosubmitlit.org/join-us/