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.
JOIN US: Saturday, November 14, 2026 at 10:00am Pacific for “Creating Paper Bag Libritos” with Olga GarcÃa EcheverrÃa. This workshop will be IN PERSON ONLY at 826LA (1714 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026).
TO REGISTER: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/wws-literary-workshop-2
SCHEDULE (all times PACIFIC:
10:00am-11:15am: “Creating Paper Bag Libritos” with Olga GarcÃa EcheverrÃa
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 Liz Galoozis
NECESSARY MATERIALS:Â
– Laptop for orientation, research, and online submissions
– Snack and/or old literary journals to share (nothing before 2017)
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Come write six-word memoirs and make cardboard and paper bag books! Supplies will be provided, but if you’d like to personalize your creation, bring your own images, photocopies of pictures (don’t use originals), and/or anything you’d like to decorate your libritos with. Think collage.Â
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR: Olga GarcÃa EcheverrÃa. She / Her / Ella. Creator and destroyer of language. Daughter of migrating dreams. Born and raised in East Los Angeles. Profesora, poeta, and dreamer. Ultra Libra in love with the ocean, the trees, and the honey-making bees.
UPCOMING IN 2027:Â
Schedule to be announced in December.
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/