Submitting to Paying Literary Markets

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 | 6pm - 9pm ET

Online, Zoom

Sliding Scale: $100 | $75 | $50

Ready to press submit? Come learn the nuances of submitting to literary journals and magazines. With a focus on paying markets, we will go over the basics: finding the right journals for your work, creating a Submittable account, writing a cover letter and author’s bio, navigating tiers of rejection and conditional acceptances, budgeting for submission fees and applying for submission fee funding, as well as record keeping, assessing payoff, and goal setting. Writers will leave this class with lists of journals to check out, drafts of cover letters and author bios, plans to help them take next steps, and additional resources. There will be time reserved for Q&A.

**This class’s intended audience is creative writers seeking publication for poetry, creative nonfiction, or fiction in literary markets as opposed to in mainstream publications. If you are unsure whether this class is right for your genre, please inquire before signing up! I am unable to issue a refund.**

Fund Your Writing: Fellowships, Grants, & Residencies

Wednesday, June 26 | 6pm - 9pm ET (one day)

Online, Zoom

Sliding Scale: $100 | $75 | $50

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 | 6pm - 9pm ET | Zoom

Learn how to fund your writing through fellowships, grants, and residencies! In this workshop, we will explore databases, crowdsourced lists, newsletters, and other resources available to help you find funding opportunities. We will also discuss the application process and its components–the artist statement, project proposal, budget proposal, creative sample, CV, letters of recommendation–as well as their function and how to ensure that your approach to these components are setting you up for success.

Come ready to write! Participants will leave class with outlines, rough drafts, to-do lists, further application resources, and a sense of what to do next.

Word Play: 6 Weeks | 3 Genres

6 Thursdays | July 18 - August 22 | 6pm - 9pm ET

Online, Zoom

Sliding Scale: $360 | $270 | $180

Whether you’re an established writer trying to get back into a writing routine or an emerging writer looking for direction, this generative multi-genre class welcomes you to 6 weeks of readings, prompts, in-class writing, community building, and gentle accountability. During our time together, we will name and push against genre definitions as well delve into lyric and narrative poetry, lyric essays and hermit crab essays, as well as flash fiction and vignettes.

Led by a trauma-informed teaching artist and holistic creative writing coach, this course also seeks to guide participants toward a more sustainable writing life. Each week, we will seek opportunities to “fill the well,” as Julia Cameron puts it, and nourish our writing lives outside of the Zoom room; topics include “reading like a writer,” creative play, writer’s block, building creative community, and revision. Potential readings include works by Fatimah Asghar, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Joe Brainard, Brenda Miller, Sandra Cisneros, and others.

**While there will be time to share and celebrate each other’s writing, please note that this class is generative in nature and does not include a workshop.**

Past Readings & Events

“Creating and Sustaining a Satisfying Writing Life.” WriteAngles Conference. Northampton, MA (2024).

Literary Reading & Open Mic for Palestine/UNRWA. Bookends, Florence, MA (2024).

Conversation with Ani Gjika. Odyssey Bookshop, South Hadley, MA (2024).

“Women, Life, Freedom: Iranian Writers Reading & in Conversation.” RAWIFest+Mizna 2023. Minneapolis, MN (2023).

RAWIFest+Mizna 2023 Reading. Minneapolis (2023).

The Elemental Salon. Florence, MA (2023).

The Thirsty Lab Reading. Zoom (2023).

2022 Edith Wharton / Straw Dog Writers-in-Residence Celebration. Lenox, MA (2022). 

AGNI Launch of Issue 95. Goethe-Institut Boston. Boston, MA (2022).

QTWOC + QPOC Winnipeg. Zoom (2022).

Radius of Arab American Writers Festival (RAWIFest). Zoom (2021).

Poetry Reading with Fatemeh Shams. Blacksburg, VA (2019).

Past Workshops

Jumpstart Your Writing. Grub Street (2024).

Intro to Poetry. Grub Street (2024).

Submitting to Literary Markets & Magazines. Assets for Artists (2024).

Beloved: How to Write a Love Letter (2024).

Fund Your Writing: Residencies, Fellowships, & Grants. Grub Street (2024).

Fund Your Writing: Residencies, Fellowships, & Grants. Virginia Tech (2023).

Submitting to Paying Literary Journals. Virginia Tech (2023).

Poet Tea: Making & Writing about Tea in collaboration with Saba Keramati. Hugo House (2023).

MFA Application Crash Course. Grub Street (2023).

Cultivating Sustainable Writing Practices. Bennington Writing Seminars Winter Residency (2023).

Jumpstart Your Writing. Grub Street (2022, 2023, 2024).

Finding Your Literary Community. The Loft Literary Center (2022, 2023).

Submitting to Paid Literary Markets. The Loft Literary Center (2022, 2023).

Writing the MFA Application. The Loft Literary Center (2022, 2023).

Poetry Basics. The Loft Literary Center (2021, 2022, 2023).

Introduction to Poetry. The Loft Literary Center (2021, 2022, 2023).

Introduction to Poetry. Lamplighter Literary Arts Summer Writing Institute, (2021).

Introduction to Creative Writing, Virginia Tech (2020).

Contemporary Iranian-American Creative Nonfiction. University of Maryland Summer Language Institute Graduate Education Panel (2018).