Writing Workshop: Commit to Submit (In-Person OR Virtual)

You have the option of attending this workshop in-person at Thurber Center (91 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215) or virtually on Zoom.

ABOUT
You’ve written an essay, a short story, some poems, or maybe a novel. So, what’s next, if you want to publish it? This session offers a step-by-step process for how to conduct a targeted search of where to publish your work, plus tips for organizing that process. Specifically, you’ll learn about online tools for doing a targeted search, the protocols for submitting your work (including links to drafting query letters), and how to create your own action plan. This session will also include a handout that lists ways to find agents (primarily fiction/novel) and non-agented, small independent presses. Please note: this session does not focus on how to self-publish your work.

INSTRUCTOR
Lisa Lopez Snyder is an essayist and short story writer. Her pieces have been featured in 34th Parallel, Adelaide, The Raleigh Review, The Summerset Review, The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, and other publications. Her essay, “In Transit,” won The Chattahoochee Review’s 2011 Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction and she was named the 2015 Carl Sandburg Writer-in-Residence. She received her MFA in creative writing at the University of South Carolina and went on to teach first-year writing at Dartmouth College. She is currently working on a memoir-in-essays about being a paper girl in Huber Heights, Ohio.

REGISTER: https://www.thurberhouse.org/adult-writing-workshops-spring-2026

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• Next month, 19th February, 07:00 pm, Ohio Goes to the Movies (Thurber Film Screening at the Wexner Center) in Columbus
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• This March, 25th March, 07:00 pm, NYT Bestselling Author & Two-Time Thurber Prize Finalist Annabelle Gurwitch (Event & Dinner) in Columbus

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