Online Class
Hit Submit: Sending Your Work to Magazines, Residencies, and Agents
December 4th - 8th
Price: $60
Members and previous Hit Submit students*: $45
How do I submit my work to a literary magazine? What goes into an artist statement for a residency or writing workshop? How do I approach an agent? Designed for fiction writers of all levels, this class will answer these questions—and more—about how to present your work and yourself to the editors, agents, and selection committees on the other side of the submit button. After lessons conclude on December 6th, students will have the opportunity to attend a live panel of industry professionals discussing the submission process on December 8th. You’ll leave armed with the skills you need to prepare your work, organize your submissions, and craft great cover letters and artist statements to use in applications to residencies, MFA programs, writing workshops, and beyond.
Class Schedule:
- December 2nd: Classroom opens
- December 4th: Submitting to Literary Magazines
- December 5th: Submitting to Residencies
- December 6th: Submitting to Literary Agents
- December 8th: Panel Discussion with Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts (Agent, Hannigan Getzler Literary), Emily Everett (Managing Editor, The Common), and Abeer Hoque (Author, Olive Witch), 6:30pm - 7:15pm ET, Zoom
About Lena Valencia:
Lena Valencia is the director of educational programming and managing editor of One Story. She has held positions at A Public Space and BOMB Magazine, and for three years hosted the HiFi Reading Series in Manhattan. She teaches at the Sackett Street Writers Workshop and Catapult. Her writing has appeared in Joyland, Epiphany, CRAFT, the Tiny Nightmares anthology (Catapult, 2020) and elsewhere. She has an MFA in fiction from The New School, is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. For more information, visit lenavalencia.com.
About the Panelists:
Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts is both agent and rights director at Hannigan Getzler Literary. She worked formerly for Writers House, where she represented a diverse list of non-fiction, memoir, literary fiction, upmarket/book club fiction, and select realistic young-adult and middle-grade. Prior to joining Writers House, she was Director of Foreign Rights at the Susan Golomb Literary Agency, handling translation rights for best-selling, award-winning authors such as Jonathan Franzen, Rachel Kushner, William T. Vollmann, as well as representing her own clients. For several years she was a literary scout at Sanford Greenburg Associates, reporting on American books for the foreign market, and began her career in the editorial department at an independent literary publishing house, where she launched a lifelong commitment to shepherding quality fiction and nonfiction to publication. She is from the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and her cat Nina Simone.
Emily Everett is managing editor of The Common magazine. Her work appears in The Kenyon Review, where it was selected as runner-up for the 2019 Short Fiction Contest. Other short fiction appears in Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She holds an MA in Literature from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA from Smith College. She lives in western Massachusetts.
Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. Her books include a travel photography and poetry monograph (The Long Way Home, 2013), a linked collection of stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers, 2015), and a memoir (Olive Witch, 2017). She has won fellowships from the NEA, NYFA, and the Fulbright Foundation, and holds BS and MA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, and an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. See more at olivewitch.com.
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Member Discount: In order to qualify for our member discount, you must be a member at the time of registration. Please note that the discount is for our members only. Members commit to annual donations and receive benefits that allow them to participate in the organization in more meaningful ways. Not all One Story subscribers are members. If you’d like to find out more about becoming a member, you can do so here.
Refund Policy: One Story class payment is non-refundable after the class’s start date. For questions about the refund policy, or if you are unable to take the class after you have registered, please contact maribeth.
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