✍️WORKSHOP: How to Submit: Publishing Your Writing with Literary Magazines & Small Presses w/ Dennis James Sweeney
** This is a LIVE workshop. Attendees will be sent a video recording after the workshop. **
You’ve written the piece—now what? Where should you send your work? How do you write a cover letter that doesn’t feel awkward? And how do you stay grounded in your goals when the submission process feels overwhelming?
Wherever you are in the writing process, submitting your work can be a helpful light at the end of the tunnel. But the world of literary magazines and small publishers is so expansive and diverse, it’s hard to know where and how to send your work out for publication.
In this workshop with Dennis James Sweeney, author of How to Submit: Getting Your Writing Published with Literary Magazines and Small Presses, we’ll talk about the landscape of literary magazines and small presses, strategies for achieving your publication goals, and how to navigate the meaningful but difficult act of sending out the writing you’ve worked so hard on.
We’ll explore:
Where to find the right literary magazines and small presses for your work
How to create a submission strategy that fits your goalsWhat to include (and what to skip) in a cover letter
How to prepare and format your documents for submissionWhat published pieces can teach us about fit, tone, and timing
How to stay connected to your purpose in the face of rejection
You’ll leave the class with next steps for submitting your latest piece of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, or hybrid work. Join us if you’d like company in the exciting but daunting process of sending out your writing.
About Dennis James Sweeney
Dennis James Sweeney is the author of How to Submit: Getting Your Writing Published with Literary Magazines and Small Presses, a guide for writers. His first book, In the Antarctic Circle, won the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize and was a Debut Poetry Book of 2021 in Poets & Writers. You’re the Woods Too, his second book, was a Small Press Distribution bestseller and a finalist for the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Prize. Most recently, The Rolodex Happenings won the Stillhouse Press Novella Prize.
His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Ecotone, Ninth Letter, The New York Times, The Southern Review, and Witness, among others. Formerly a Small Press Editor at Entropy and Assistant Editor at Denver Quarterly, he has an MFA from Oregon State University and a PhD from the University of Denver. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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