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Submitting Seminar
How and Where to Publish Your Writing with Shira Dentz
March 15, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
(online class)
Join widely published poet Shira Dentz for a crash course in submitting. During this three hour seminar, you’ll learn the basics about how to submit work to literary magazines, best practices for making sure your work is considered, and suggestions for magazines, journals, and websites that might be the perfect home for your writing. In the days after the seminar, your instructor will—with the eyes of an editor—read the first page of your submission and provide you with a feedback letter (300 words long) on the writing itself in addition to recommendations for different publications to whom you might consider sending your work. While this class cannot, of course, guarantee publication, it will lay a foundation for you to optimize your submission process.
March 15 @ 10 AM – 1 PM on Zoom
Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK Books and soon to be republished by Astrophil Press), winner of the Nassar Prize 2021, door of thin skins (CavanKerry), the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink), black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman, UK), and how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), a National Poetry Series finalist, as well as two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Shira’s poetry, hybrid and visual writing, nonfiction, criticism, and conversations have been featured in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, The Rumpus, Seneca Review, Gulf Coast, Brooklyn Rail, Cincinnati Review, FIELD, jubilat, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, VOLT, New American Writing, Quarter After Eight, Idaho Review, Apartment, Annulet, The Rumpus, Diagram, NPR, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series (Poets.org) and The Poetry Society of America and The Poetry Foundation websites. She’s a recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize and Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards, and most recently NELLE Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award in creative nonfiction. Her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from the University of Utah, and currently lives and works in upstate NY. More at shiradentz.com