Breaking the Submission Barrier with D. Dina Friedman, the Submission Queen

Writing may be a mostly joyful process, but the process of offering our work to journals and literary agents can feel terrifying, or simply like drudgery. This confidence-building workshop will help you increase your motivation for getting your work out into the universe, where it deserves to be seen. We’ll work on setting reasonable and realistic submission goals, and develop some armor for persevering through rejection. We’ll also cover the advantages/disadvantages of why/where/how you should (or shouldn’t) submit, as well as strategies for finding submission resources, establishing a submission habit, and tracking your efforts. 

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Dubbed “The Submission Queen” in many of her local writing groups, D. Dina Friedman has published in over 150 literary journals and received six Pushcart Prize and two Best-of-the Net nominations. She has also received more than 1,000 rejections—maybe 5,000 (she hasn’t counted them.) Dina is the author of two books of poetry: Here in Sanctuary—Whirling (Querencia Press) and Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press); one book of short stories: Immigrants (Creators Press); and two young adult novels: Escaping Into the Night (Simon & Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). Dina blogs on living a creative life in a creatively challenged universe at https://ddinafriedman.substack.com. Visit her website at https://www.ddinafriedman.com.