New Submission Opportunities

Deadlines from February 15 to March 31 + a nudge

This month I’ve researched and compiled 34 opportunities for submitting your work to journals, magazines, contests, and residencies—including some prestigious annual competitions, and opportunities for bragging-rights-worthy residencies and fellowships. Deadlines in this batch run from February 15 to March 31. Good opportunities! Take advantage of them and push your writing career forward starting now.

And speaking of starting now, here’s a nudge this month—a friendly push (not to write: because if you’re a subscriber here, you’re already a writer, right?)—but to submit. Yes, submit your work. It’s hard to do the first time; even harder, perhaps, the 10th or 20th or 50th, because you’re fighting the effects of the little blows to your ego that come in each rejection. So every time you submit, it’s like you’re starting all over again, and maybe from a darker place than before. And that’s hard.

So take heart through this lovely video, in which Stage Door Johnny (@stage_door_johnny) reads “The First Step” by Sophie Diener (@sophiediener)—a beautiful poem of self-forgiveness and courage, which is what it sometimes takes to send your work out into the cold hard world

Looking to get some inspiration and hone your craft? You can join one (or both) of our workshops below. But there’s just one spot available in each. Take it before it’s gone.

Writer’s Craft Workshop

The Women At Woodstock Writer’s Craft Workshop, facilitated by multi-award-winning author Clifford Henderson, has 2 spots remaining.

[Clifford Henderson has published six award-winning novels, which have garnered numerous awards including a Foreword Magazine Gold Medal Book of the Year, an Independent Publisher’s Book Award, a Golden Crown Literary Award, a Rainbow Award, and several Lesbian Fiction Reader’s Choice Awards. Her seventh novel is in the works.]

Writer’s Dissection Lab

The Writer’s Dissection Lab; a deep examination workshop in which we pull apart a story recently published in a prestigious journal or magazine, and identify the arc, style, character development, language, and more that made it so very good. I’m leading this one, and I’ve been so excited by the discussions we’ve had so far!

[Ann Voorhees Baker has been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review (twice), the Noyo River Review, and Under the Sun, and elsewhere, and has completed her first novel, now in professional editing. She’s the founder of Women At Woodstock, which has been producing online writer’s workshops and an annual writer’s retreat for women, held near Woodstock, NY since 2012.]

So, on to the submission opportunities in this month’s edition of Get Yourself Published with submission deadlines from February 15 through the end of March.