Online Class
Hit Submit: Sending Your Work to Magazines, Residencies, and Agents
September 26th - 29th
Price: $60
Members and previous Hit Submit students*: $50
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 September 28th, students will have the opportunity to attend a live virtual panel of industry professionals discussing the submission process on September 29th. 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:
- Friday, September 24th: Classroom opens
- Sunday, September 26th: Submitting to Literary Magazines
- Monday, September 27th: Submitting to Residencies
- Tuesday, September 28th: Submitting to Literary Agents
- Wednesday, September 29th: Panel Discussion with Mina Seçkin (Managing Editor, Apogee Journal), Rachel Cantor (Author, Good on Paper), and Jade Wong-Baxter (Literary Agent, Frances Goldin Literary Agency)
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, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Dorland Mountain Arts Residency. For more information, visit lenavalencia.com.
About the Panelists:
Rachel Cantor is the author of the novels Good on Paper (Melville House 2016) and A Highly Unlikely Scenario (Melville House 2014). Two dozen of her short stories have appeared in literary magazines, anthologies, and prize collections. She has been awarded more than 35 fellowships, including at artists’ residencies in Andalucia, Barcelona, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Brussels, and Edinburgh. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is always at work on another book.
Mina Seçkin is a writer and editor from Brooklyn. Her work has been published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She serves as managing editor of Apogee Journal, and her debut novel, The Four Humors, will be published by Catapult in November 2021.
Jade Wong-Baxter joined Frances Goldin Literary Agency in 2021. She previously worked for three years at Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents as a junior agent and foreign rights associate. A graduate of Vassar College, Jade got her start in publishing at Writers House, W. W. Norton, and Folio Literary Management. She is looking for adult literary/upmarket fiction and narrative nonfiction, with an emphasis on narratives by and about people of color, as well as the perspectives of marginalized identities. Her other areas of interest include magical realism, memoir, cultural criticism and Asian-American history.
Our online classes are designed to be safe spaces for all who participate. One Story will not tolerate hate speech, bullying, or harassment directed toward instructors or fellow students, and reserves the right to remove participants who engage in such behavior from our classes.
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.
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