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 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, May 11, 2024 at 10:00am Pacific: “Making the Connection to Libraries & Librarians.” This conversation and its panelists will be in person at the Altadena Main Library (600 E Mariposa St, Altadena, CA 91001) with a Zoom option for members. 

About the Panel: Women Who Submit is thrilled to feature a talk with members who are working librarians. Cybele García Kohel, Lauren Salerno, Elizabeth Galoozis, and Lisa Eve Cheby will share their knowledge, strategies, and best practices for how writers can connect with libraries and librarians for research, community, workshops, and book promotions.  

Bios: 

Lisa Eve Cheby, poet, librarian, school library advocate, and daughter of Hungarian immigrants, holds an MFA from Antioch University and an MLIS from SJSU. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in journals and anthologies including Santa Ana River Review, Exposition Review, So To Speak, Ruminate, TAB, Drawn to Marvel, and Coiled Serpent. She was writer in Residence at Sundress Academy for the Arts’ Firefly Farms and Dorland Mountain Arts. Her first two chapbooks inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer are available from dancing girl press. Her third chapbook, Contact Traciing, will be released in 2024.

Elizabeth Galoozis’s poems have appeared in Air/Light, Pidgeonholes, RHINO, Witness, Sinister Wisdom, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and for Best of the Net, and was selected by Claire Wahmanholm for AWP’s Writer to Writer Program in 2022. She works as a librarian at the Claremont Colleges; she co-edited two books for ACRL Press and her scholarly work has been published in The Library Quarterly, College & Research Libraries, and In the Library With the Lead Pipe. Elizabeth can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @thisamericanliz, and at her website https://elizabethgaloozis.wordpress.com/.

Cybele Garcia Kohel is a Puerto Rican writer living on unceded Tongva land. She writes poetry, short stories and essays, in a loud voice from the margins. She is a mom, fierce dog lover and school librarian. You can read her individual poems the Altadena Poetry Review (2017, 2018), New American Legends (2019), Screaming from the Silence Anthology (Vociferous Press, 2020), the Women Who Submit anthology, Accolades (2020), and the Altadena Literary Review (2020, 2022). She shares her essays on Medium, here: https://cgkohel.medium.com

Lauren Salerno is a librarian who specializes in programming and community outreach. She has been in the field for over 20 years, and graduated with her MLIS in 2023. Lauren is also a writer whose work has appeared in the LA Times, The Rattling Wall, and the East Jasmine Review. She lives in Pasadena with a wobbly dog and a sturdy husband.

SCHEDULE

10:00am-11:15am: “Making the Connection to Libraries & Librarians” (In-person at Altadena Library 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 2024: 

Saturday, August 10 – WWS Submission Conference at Plaza de la Raza

Saturday, November 9 – Generative Writing Workshop TBD

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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