Submission Sunday 7.31.22: Why Submit?

How to justify sending your work into the world

Happy Sunday, writers! Welcome to the first Submission Sunday post for paid subscribers. For people who may not know me through Writing Workshops LA, I regularly led submission support groups and taught a seminar called Improve Your Submission Game. The seminar covered how, what, where, and why to submit; submitting to literary journals and magazines, newspapers, and general interest magazines; querying agents and small/academic presses; how to write effective cover and/or query letters; how to pitch articles; how to write a book proposal; how to apply for residencies; and many, many other considerations.

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be taking some of these lessons and expanding on them for the paid subscriber posts (as well as sharing interviews with published authors and editors about submitting, craft essays, and more). Since we’re just beginning our submission journey together, I thought I’d start with the first basic question: Why prioritize submitting when you’ve got all this writing to do?