​✦︎ About the Event ✦︎

​Create a streamlined submission practice built on consistency, systems, and results. This workshop removes the guesswork from submitting to literary journals by breaking down everything from acceptance rates to smart organization strategies. You’ll leave with practical tools—including tracking templates, sample cover letters, and a curated list of over thirty literary magazines, along with insight into the kinds of work they tend to publish.

​✦︎ About the Instructor ✦︎

​Kelly Grace Thomas, poet, writer, and coach, is the author of Future Tense (forthcoming from Alice James Books, 2026) and Boat Burned (YesYes Books, 2020). She is the winner of the Jane Underwood Poetry Prize and the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor. Kelly’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: The Sun, The Adroit Journal, 32 Poems, Los Angeles Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She is also co-author of poetry curricula including Voices in Verse: Poetry, Identity, and Ethnic Studies, Stanzas of America: Celebrating BIPOC Poetry, and Words Ignite: Explore, Write, and Perform Classic and Spoken Word Poetry (Get Lit), which are currently taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College.