In a safe, supportive community, learn how to plan a submissions strategy, create a plan of attack for your work, where to locate legitimate markets, and present yourself as a professional author. We'll begin with learning proper submissions etiquette and protocol, avoiding pitfalls that mark you as an amateur and get your submission tossed onto the "No" pile before editors have even read it. This workshop is geared for writers interested in submitting work on a regular basis to literary journals, magazines, funding and residency opportunities, and writing contests. Open to all genres.
Students completing this workshop will:
*know how to format their work for submissions
*understand the do's and dont's of cover letters
*write a new cover letter
*be introduced to a broad number of resources for locating legitimate markets for writers at all levels
*understand how to determine whether a writing competition's entry fees are "worth it."
*be equipped to devise and implement a strategy for success!
Lyzette Wanzer’s work appears in over thirty literary journals and magazines, most recently in Poets & Writers Magazine. Her book, TRAUMA, TRESSES, & TRUTH: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives (Chicago Review Press) appears on Library Journal’s 2022 Top 10 Best Social Sciences Books list, and was a 2023 Black Women’s Studies Association Selection. Lyzette is a contributor to Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth From the Margins (Wayne State University Press), Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the San Francisco Bay Area (Pease Press), and the multi-award-winning The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie). She has been awarded over ten literary grants and fellowships to support her work.