Once you have submission-ready work, it’s time to get organized and strategize how/where/when to submit. In this five-week session, meeting every Monday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. PDT, Rachel and Anne will demystify the submitting process based on their experiences as writers and in conversation with editors. We will share resources and cover the pragmatics of organizing a submissions practice as well as discussing the psychological struggles of the process, helping you clear obstacles to gain and maintain a healthy relationship with the process. Whether you’ve been submitting for years or have never written a cover letter, this group will help you find new places to submit, remove obstacles, and provide strategies for creating a regular submissions practice.

 

Your leaders, Rachel and Anne, have been submitting for years, across multiple genres and publication types. We will share what we’ve learned and the missteps we’ve made along the way. We will also be submitting right along with you!

 

Note: To get the most out of this group, you should have at least one piece of writing that you feel nearly ready to send out for publication. 

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About the Instructors:

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Anne Beatty has been writing nonfiction for the better part of two decades. She’s spent the same chunk of time inventing ways to force herself to revise and submit her work— and withstand the inevitable rejection. Her writing has appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic, Brevity, The Georgia Review, Longreads, and elsewhere. Her essays have won prizes from Hunger Mountain and Creative Nonfiction and been recognized as Notable in the Best American Essays anthology. A writer by night, by day she is a high school English teacher.

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Click here to learn more about Anne.

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Rachel Richardson is the author of the poetry collection Smother, forthcoming from W. W. Norton in early 2025, and two previous books of poetry, Hundred-Year Wave and Copperhead, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Orion, Yale Review, on The Slowdown; her nonfiction has been published in Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, at the Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she is co-founder of Left Margin LIT and a Trustee at The Frost Place. 

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Click here to learn more about Rachel.

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LEFT MARGIN LIT'S CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY:

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If you find that you can't take a class for which you registered, you may request a refund, less a $25 administrative fee, at least 48 hours prior to the start of the first class session. If a class doesn't reach its minimum enrollment, it will be cancelled, and all students will receive full refunds.