Workshop Archive available on our YouTube Channel
Navigating Without Instruments
with traci kato-kiriyama (she/they), award-winning, multi-,inter-, and transdisciplinary artist. Her workshop will focus on Death Moments, transformation, and creative process in the midst of psychological blockage. Hosted by WWS Board Member, Kate Maruyama
November 2022
Beginnings & Endings
with Toni Ann Johnson, author of Homegoing and the forthcoming, Light Skin Gone to Waste, 2021 winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction. What is the connection between a story’s beginning and its ending? This workshop took a look at the beginning and the end of seversl short stories by well-known writers, and considered how to use the connection between the two to enhance our writing.
May 2022
Building Community with Affinity Journals
featuring Brenna Crotty, Senior Editor with CALYX, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Editor-in-Chief with Foglifter, and Grace Jahng Lee, Nonfiction Editor with Hyphen Magazine. Moderated by Noriko Nakada, WWS Blog Managing Editor.
February 2022
Reclaiming My Time: The Writers Edition
Rachel Howzell Hall led this workshop, hosted by Désirée Zamorano.
Rachel shared her time management strategies an publishing trajectory.
August 2021
Curating and Placing a Chapbook
Janel Pineda, author of Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Press 2020) and Jenise Miller, author of The Blvd (DSTL Arts 2019), and moderator by Lisa Cheby, author of Love Lessons from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dancing Girl Press 2015) discussed the process of writing and curating a chapbook and submitting it for publication.
May 2021
Building Community with LA Presses and Journals
Neelanjana Banerjee, CD Eskilson, Viva Padilla and Olivia Taylor Smith discussed with moderator Jessica Ceballos y Campbell how to connect to local presses and journals and what community means in literary LA.
February 2021
How to Boost Your Literary Citizenry by Writing and Placing Book Reviews
with Melissa Chadburn who shared how to acquire books to review, where to place reviews for publication and why this is a form of literary citizenship.
November 2020
Magazine and Journal Editors Share Best Practices
A panel session from the WWS 2020 Submission Conference on Saturday, August 8, 2020. The panel featured magazine and journal editors, Muriel Leung (Apogee Journal/Gold Line Press), Cassandra Lane (LA Parent), and Raina León (Acentos Review). The panel was moderated by Ramona Pilar.
Demystifying Top Tier Submissions
A panel session from the WWS 2020 Submission Conference on Saturday, August 8, 2020. The panel featured Hazel Kight Witham, Anita Gill, and Cynthia Guardado. The panel was moderated by Lituo Huang.
Empowering Your Community: A Talk with Chapter Leads
A panel session from the WWS 2020 Submission Conference on Saturday, August 8, 2020. The panel featured Long Beach Chapter Lead, Desiree Kannel and Bay Area Chapter Lead, Becca Gomez Farrell. The panel was moderated by WWS Cofounder and Chapters Director, Ashaki M. Jackson.
Should I Go? A discussion about applying to and attending creative writing programs
with Dana Johnson (USC) and Sara Borjas (UCR)
February 2020
Pay Attention: attending and collaborating at the end slash beginning of the world
with Rachel McLeod Kaminer and Rocio Carlos
October 2019
Submitting to Tier One: Step-by-Step Preparation for the Submission Blitz
with Desiree Zamorano
August 2019
Poetry Submission Strategies
with Vickie Vértiz and Muriel Leung
April 2019
You Need a Website!
A Practical Guide to the What, Why, and How of Building (or Strategically Updating) Your Author Website
with Li Yun Alvarado
February 2019
Preparing Applications for Artist Opportunities: residencies, workshops, and fellowships
with Melissa Chadburn and liz gonzalez who have attended and been readers for various residencies. They share experience applying, attending, and reading applications.
October 2018
Applying for Academic Jobs
with Cynthia Guardado and Bernadette Murphy
August 2018
Writing While Caretaking
with Noriko Nakada and Jamie Asaye FitzGerald Lahey
June 2018
Stranger Than Fiction: Transforming Unusual Narratives into Compelling Essays
with Julia Ingalls
February 2018
Self Care
with writer, editor, and educator Andrea Gutierrez who highlights best practices and exercises to help get through the holidays.
December 2017
90×90 Submission Strategies Workshop
with Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Lauren Eggert-Crowe, and Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera
August 2017