We need to match our grant
This year, Women Who Submit is proud to announce that we secured a $4,500 Local Impact Grant from the California Arts Council!
These funds will cover almost half of our programming costs for Fiscal Year 2020, but in our grant application, we had to demonstrate that we could raise the rest ourselves.
That’s where you come in.
We need your help keeping Women Who Submit up and running for the next year. Since 2011, Women Who Submit has supported women and non-binary writers in 14 states and three countries through the submission process. Our bimonthly submission parties in Los Angeles and our chapter meetings across the country continually bring in new writers who are ready to get published. Your contribution helps us create spaces where women and non-binary writers can share submission strategies, encourage each other’s work, and break barriers to publication. We have expanded our mission over the years and empowered writers to apply to residencies, fellowships, and conferences as well.
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With your contribution, we can bring in leaders from the writing community to deliver panels and workshops on topics like finding an agent, creating an author website, submitting to contests, and applying to residencies. We can secure public, accessible spaces in which to host our bi-monthly submission parties. We can continue awarding submission fee stipends, which is another way of breaking financial barriers that writers often struggle with. We can also utilize live-streaming and transcription services to make our workshops more accessible to those who can’t be with us physically because of transportation barriers and/or disabilities. We can present on these issues at national conferences, such as AWP, furthering our mission to make space for marginalized voices in literature.
Your contribution will go to our 501(c)3 fiscal sponsor, Avenue 50 Studios.
Women Who Submit is about community. We empower and encourage the writers in our community to break their own barriers to submission, and we advocate for a publishing landscape that is welcoming and accessible to ALL communities.
Will you join our community and help make our 2020 goals possible?
About Women Who Submit
Women Who Submit seeks to empower women and non-binary writers by creating physical and virtual spaces for sharing information, supporting and encouraging submissions to literary journals, and clarifying the submission and publication process.
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WWS History
Women Who Submit began with the idea of a submission party—the brainchild of founding member Alyss Dixson—as a response to the VIDA count, which illustrated just how vastly underrepresented women are in Tier 1 literary journals. Other founding members, Ashaki Jackson and Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, were brought in to help plan the first ever submission party held in Xochitl-Julisa’s mom’s kitchen (thanks, mom!) in July 2011. On that day six women ate quiche, created a sharing library of lit journals, set goals, asked for feedback on cover letters, and sent off submissions.
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WWS in virtual space
Our Facebook page, Twitter feed, YouTube channel, and blog are tools WWS uses to continue its mission to empower women and non-binary writers to submit their work to literary magazines for publication. It is completely open to any and all writers who are seeking online support and information. We also use these outlets to promote future projects and public events.
WWS in physical space
The submission party is how this group began, and we continue to join together in each other’s homes and public venues to share, support, and submit.
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What is this money for?
Speaker Fees $600
Submission Fee Grant $600
Event Space $1,200
Planning Meeting: $350
Refreshments $200
Supplies $100
Website Maintenance $200
Transcription $600
Marketing $550
Event Host: $300
Orientation Leader: $800
Administrative costs (Indiegogo's fees, shipping, etc): $500
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More perks will continue to be rotated in during the campaign so check back for updates!
Claps and cheers of gratitude for our fiscal sponsor, grant funders, community members and perk donors:
California Arts Council
Center for Cultural Innovation
Avenue 50 Studios
Eugene Owens and the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Branch of the LA Public Library
Jessica Ceballos y Campbell
Kate Maruyama
Jack Jones Literary Arts
Book Show
Kaya Press
Jaded Ibis Press
Unnamed Press
Sundress Publications
Hyacinth Girl Press
LibroMobile
Minal Hajratwala
Otherwild
Urban 728 Yoga
Gracie's Pizza
The Faculty
Tasty's Juice Bar
Jessica Bixel
Wendy C. Ortiz
Amanda Yates Garcia
Michelle Tea
Mary Borrowman
Sage Simpson
Tanzila Ahmed
Rachael Warecki
LiYun Alvarado
Seth Fischer
Summer Block
Melissa Chadburn
Aurora Lady
Taleen Kali
Melanie Diemel
Jamie Moore
Désireé Zamorano
J. Ryan Stradal
Jade Chang
Kate Durbin
Vickie Vértiz
Muriel Leung
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Antonia Crane
David Rocklin
Isaac Fitzgerald
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