Saturday, July 18 11:00am – 12pm ET
BY DONATION
An online workshop led by Regina Dilgen, in conversation with Fiona Owen and Ellis Elliott
Workshop Details
Are you ready to send your work into the world but you’re not sure where to begin? This practical workshop will guide writers through the submission process from start to finish. We’ll cover how to:- find appropriate markets- interpret submission guidelines- format your work professionally- write a simple cover letter- track submissions- handle acceptance and rejection with confidence. Whether you’re submitting poems, stories, essays, or creative nonfiction, you’ll leave with the tools and resources you need to take the next step in your publishing journey.
This event is by donation and requires registration. Please join us by registering through the link below.
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Instructors
Regina Dilgen was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York. She served as Professor of English and Department Chair at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth, Florida, and she holds a Ph.D. from Florida Atlantic University. Her chapbook Back from the River is forthcoming from Moonstone Press. Her poetry has been published in Chameleon Chimera: An Anthology of Florida Poets, The Dewdrop, Poetry South, Blueline, redrosethorns, Earth’s Daughters, Quartler(ly), Persimmon Tree, Passager, and Apollo’s Lute. Regina attended the Breadloaf Writers Conference in Sicily, and she was a featured poet at a Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches reading. Regina lives in Delray Beach, Florida, where she writes and paints.
Fiona Owen from Wales, UK, writes poetry, short fiction, and songs, and has taught creative writing from community to post-graduate levels, along with literature and other arts/humanities subjects. She taught for the Open University for twenty-four years. She’s published four poetry collections, the most recent being Anima/l (2024), along with a chapbook O My Swan. The collaborative Screen of Brightness was co-written with Meredith Andrea, response poems over a year. Fiona’s short fiction, critical papers and creative prose works are published in assorted journals, magazines and anthologies. She was poetry editor for Scintilla for issues 16 and 17, and edited At Time’s Edge: Remembering Anne Cluysenaar, which was published by The Vaughan Association. Fiona holds an MA in Writing and, after running various writing-related groups over the years, she now runs occasional Eye of the Storm ‘writing at depth’ sessions on Zoom. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Fiona was singer/songwriter with the Welsh-language electro-pop group Eirin Peryglus and worked with Gorwel Owen as part of the art-music project Plant Bach Ofnus. Now, Fiona and Gorwel write and record songs together, with three CDs currently available, the latest being Releasing Birds.
Ellis Elliott is a writer, ballet teacher, and facilitator for online writing groups called Bewilderness Writing. She has a blended family of six grown sons and lives in Jupiter, FL. She has an MFA from Queens University in Charlotte, NC. She has been published in Signal Mountain Review, Literary Mama, OPEN: Journal of Arts and Letters, Plainsongs Poetry Magazine/Award Poem, Sierra Nevada Review, Women of Appalachia Project Anthology, Delmarva Review, The Rail, Spotlong Review, Euphony Journal, and others. Her first chapbook, Break in the Field, published by Devil’s Party Press (2023), was a finalist for the Two Sylvia’s Press Wilder Poetry Book Prize. Her cozy mystery, A Witch Awakens: A Fire Circle Mystery, came out in 2025.