Submitting Seminar: How and Where to Publish Your Writing
March 22 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Have you been wanting to submit your writing for publication but you’re just not sure where to start? Or maybe you’ve submitted before and want a push to keep on going? 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, Shira will – with the eyes of an editor – read the first page of your submission (300 words max in any genre) and give you up to 300 words of feedback on your writing in addition to recommendations for publications where your work would make a solid fit.
*PLEASE NOTE: This course does not address submitting novels, nor anything agented. It will focus on small press publishing for individual poems, stories, and creative nonfiction pieces (not collections).
** Last day to register is Thursday, March 12, 2026 **
About Shira Dentz
Shira Dentz is the author of five books, most recently SISYPHUSINA (Astrophil Press), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize, as well as two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Shira’s writing and conversations appear in diverse venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Conjunctions, The Baffler, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Blackbird, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Brooklyn Rail, Cincinnati Review, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, VOLT, Annulet, Apartment, New American Writing, Quarter After Eight, The Rumpus, Hanging Loose, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series (Poets.org) and NPR. She’s the recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize, Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards, NELLE Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award for creative nonfiction, and an NEA/NYS arts grant. More at shiradentz.com.