Mastering Magazine Submissions

An Online Poetry Publishing Workshop with John Sibley Williams
Saturday, January 17
9:00am – 12:00pm Pacific Time
Registration $60 or $55 for Fishtrappers

Is the registration fee an obstacle for you to attend this workshop? Fishtrap offers a limited number of scholarships to help with the cost. Contact Program Director Mike Midlo for more information. mike@fishtrap.org

Submitting your poetry to and being published in literary magazines, both in print and online, is a crucial step in reaching new readers, creating a community around your work, and being taken more seriously by book publishers. In this informative workshop, award-winning poet and literary agent John Sibley Williams provides you with all the tools and strategies you’ll need to successfully target and get accepted by literary magazines. From researching to cover letter writing, bookkeeping to submission tracking, goal setting to retaining your enthusiasm (and sanity), you will learn how to get your publishing career off the ground…and your poetry into stellar magazines.

John Sibley Williams is the author of nine poetry collections, including Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Poetry Award), The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press), skycrape (WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest), and Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). His book Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming in translation from by the Portuguese press do lado esquerdo. A thirty-five-time Pushcart nominee, John serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review, Poetry Editor at Kelson Books, and founder of the Caesura Poetry Workshop series. Previous publishing credits include Best American Poetry, Yale Review, Verse Daily, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and TriQuarterly.