Hit Send: The Art of Submitting Your Work with Meg Toth (Zoom)
This is the 3rd installment of the Summer Publishing Series (a 5-part series that can be purchased in its entirety or session-by-session). This workshop is designed to help writers navigate the process of getting their short-form work (short stories, creative nonfiction, and poetry) published.
This workshop is designed to help writers navigate the process of getting their short-form work (short stories, creative nonfiction, and poetry) published in print and online magazines. The workshop provides an overview of the following: how to know when your draft is ready to submit, how to research and identify appropriate venues for your writing, and how to use submission platforms like Submittable, Moksha, and Duotrope. You’ll also learn how to write effective cover letters and stay organized with tools like submission spreadsheets.
BIO
Meg Toth is a fiction writer, an Assistant Editor/Reader for Conjunctions Magazine, and the founder of Birchwood Editing. Her short fiction—which has appeared in such venues as The Massachusetts Review, The Idaho Review, Pithead Chapel, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (Kelly Link & Gavin Grant)—was nominated for the 2025 & 2024 Pushcart Prize and the 2024 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She lived in New York City for seventeen years, where she taught college film and literature courses, but she recently moved back to her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, a place that appears frequently in her writing. Meg is attending the Kenyon Writers Workshop in 2026 and has received residencies from the Ragdale Foundation, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (where she was awarded the Alison Lurie Memorial Fellowship for Female-Identifying Fiction Writers) to work on her second novel. She enjoys bird-watching, playing complex board games, and going on food adventures with her partner.
If you are a college or university student, we’d love to make the series even more accessible for you. Please email [email protected] from your school email and let me know which sessions you’d like to attend at a discounted rate.
Summer Publishing Series (Available as individual sessions [$75] or in its entirety [$325])
DIY Marketing for Authors (June 16) Diane Goettel
FROM MANUSCRIPT to SUCCESSFUL PITCH: A Literary Agent’s Perspective (June 23) Gina Maccoby
Hit Send: The Art of Submitting Your Work (June 30) Meg Toth
The Writer-Publisher Relationship (July 7) Carey Salerno
Finding Your Digital Writing Voice (July 14) Chris L. Vaughan
**Please note that we will do our best to make a recording of each session available–for one week only–to all who have registered and purchased tickets. Technical and human error does occur–so this is not a guarantee, but our good faith effort to make these sessions as accessible as possible. **
