Creative writing isn’t an establish-yourself-overnight deal. It's a journey that requires time, hard work, commitment, and access to the right resources.

Half the battle is developing your voice and fine-tuning your work. The other half is about building a presence to draw an audience that stays and grows with you during your growth as a writer.

After workshops, peer reviews and/or self-edits, it’s time to send that blog/review/story/essay/article out into the world! From Page To Publication: Submitting Your Work to Publications & Journals is an opportunity to get the scoop on investing in yourself and your craft. Find out where to send your work, how to approach publishers, and when/how to time your submissions while preparing to send final drafts to publications and journals.

Open to beginner and intermediate writers.

All class meetings will be held via Zoom. The link to join your Zoom classroom will be provided on the morning of your class. Please check spam folders if you do not receive an email confirmation upon registration. For more information on how to download or use Zoom, please click here.

Meet Your Instructor:
Lyndsey Ellis

Lyndsey Ellis is a fiction writer, essayist, and teaching artist with work that has appeared in Kweli Journal, Catapult, Electric Literature, Joyland, midnight & indigo, Shondaland, and several anthologies. She has led several creative writing workshops with a focus on craft, publication, networking opportunities for writers, and cross-arts collaboration. Ellis was a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for her fiction. She is a VONA/Voices Alumna and Kimbilio Fellow who’s had writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, and Wellstone Center in the Redwoods. Ellis is currently a prose editor for great weather for MEDIA and The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose & Thought. Her first novel, Bone Broth, was published by Hidden Timber Books in 2021. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Course Takeaways

• Direction on sending your work and approaching publishers
• Draft a cover letter, essay pitch, and query letter during class
• Establish a time-based submission strategy

Course Expectations

• An open mind
• Be your beautiful self
• Ask questions

We offer full refunds for cancellation with written notice up until 7 days before your class start date. From 6 days to more than 24 hours before class begins, we offer a 25% refund. If you drop a class less than 24 hours before the class begins or after it has started, you are ineligible for a refund.