Beyond the Writing: Building Community, Advocacy, and a Literary Career
The 2024 WWS Submission Conference will be held Saturday, August 10, 2024 at Plaza de la Raza in Lincoln Heights. The third conference in a series, the 2024 conference is the first to be offered in person thanks to a partnership with Plaza de la Raza and a grant from the Latino Community Foundation and California Arts Council. Online options will be made available for those experiencing barriers to attending due to health, finances, travel, family care, and more. The Women Who Submit Submission Conference is a biennial (every other year), one-day speaker program created by women and nonbinary writers for women and nonbinary writers to empower marginalized voices to submit work for publication and achieve success in publishing and academia. The first WWS Submission Conference was held as an online event in the heart of lockdowns in August 2020 thanks to a grant from the Eastside Arts Initiative and individual donors.
The WWS Submission Conference seeks to feature writers, translators, illustrators, editors, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, publicists, professors, and more from the Southern California region to discuss pathways to success. Women Who Submit works to center individuals from marginalized communities including, but not limited to, people who identify as Trans and/or nonbinary, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and Disabled. WWS focuses on an anti-capitalist model of generosity, shared leadership, inclusion & accessibility, and resilience. More on our core values can be found here.
About Proposing Panels & Workshops
For the 2024 WWS Submission Conference, Beyond the Writing: Building Community, Advocacy, and a Literary Career, Women Who Submit is accepting proposals for panels and workshops to be produced in person at Plaza de la Raza with a hybrid option. All panels and workshops will take place on Saturday, August 10, 2024, between the hours of 9am-5pm. Up to three in person panels and three in person workshops will be accepted.
Criteria:
- Women Who Submit is looking for proposals that celebrate, investigate, or highlight a variety of writers’ experiences that focus on strategies and pathways to success. Proposals should consider varied viewpoints and are encouraged to be intersectional and inclusive in topics, guest speakers, and moderators.
- Proposals must be submitted by a registered member of Women Who Submit – either from Los Angeles or one of the WWS chapters. However, panels and workshops can include partners from outside the WWS community.
- Any individual member may submit up to two proposals. This could be two panels, two workshops, or one and one. Any individual speaker or facilitator is only allowed to feature on one accepted proposal.
- Panels and workshops will be allotted 75 minutes.
- Panels proposals must include a moderator and 3 guest speakers.
- Workshop proposals can include 1 or 2 facilitators.
- Proposals will be selected based on diversity*, synchronicity with core values, synergy of topics, and how well the proposal addresses essential issues affecting women and nonbinary writers.
Accepted proposals will receive:
- $100 per panelist/moderator
- $150 per co-workshop facilitator or $300 for a single workshop facilitator
- Free lunch on the day
- Promotional support including flyers for social media and posts on the Women Who Submit, Plaza de la Raza, and partnering social media accounts
- Recognition in the WWS Submission Conference program
Important dates:
- Submissions open: April 28, 2024
- Submissions close: May 28, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: June 14, 2024
- WWS Conference: Saturday, August 10, 2024
Find the application HERE.
Find the rubric for grading applications HERE.
*Diversity can include, but is not limited to age, class, status, education, race, nationality, geographical region, religion, physical ability, mental health, gender, sexual orientation, financial capacity, and family obligations.