Do you have a short story, a poem, or an essay you’re ready to submit? Are you curious about publishing in literary journals? Or maybe you are ready to send your chapbook or book to a publisher. This workshop offers a deep dive into the submission process with advice and resources for finding a market for your work. Attendees will leave with an inside look into how editors and publishers evaluate and select work, and resources to help you organize and track submissions. We will also discuss the pros and cons of self-publishing. This workshop will help you turn rejection into acceptance.

Instructor

Allison Blevins (she/her) is a queer disabled writer and the author of Where Will We Live if the House Burns Down (Persea Books, forthcoming), winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award; Cataloguing Pain (YesYes Books, 2023); Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir (BlazeVox, 2022); and Slowly/Suddenly (VA Press, 2021). She is also the author of the chapbooks fiery poppies bruising their own throats (Glass Lyre Press, forthcoming), Chorus for the Kill (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022), Susurration (Blue Lyra Press, 2019), Letters to Joan (Lithic Press, 2019), and A Season for Speaking (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019). Allison is the Founder and Director of Small Harbor Publishing and the Executive Editor at the museum of americana. She lives in Minnesota with her spouse and three children. For more information, visit allisonblevins.com.