How to Submit to the BARN Annual Collection

Writers

How to Submit to the BARN Annual Collection

Learn to successfully submit your work to BARN's Annual Collection.

Member - In Person

$8.00 (any noted materials fee included)

Guest - In Person

$10.00 (any noted materials fee included)

Member - Online

$8.00 (any noted materials fee included)

Guest - Online

$10.00 (any noted materials fee included)

Tuition Assistance and Other Policies

Meeting Times
  1. Wed, 12/11/2024 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Wed, 12/11/2024

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Type:
Class, No Prerequisite

Location:
Writers' Studio or Online

Interests:
Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, Poetry, Publishing

About

In this one-hour class, we’ll cover the basics of how to successfully submit to our contest to give you the best chance of getting published! Our submission guidelines are standard to most contests, which can help you in the future. BONUS: We will help you submit your work to the Annual Collection in real time. Tutors on site! Bring your laptop and submission-ready work.

Details

Skill level: All
Bring a laptop and your submission-ready work if you plan to submit during class

Class Policies

Ages 14 and up are welcome.

BARN Policies

Instructors or Guides

Kathleen OBrien Cunningham

Kathleen is a member of the Writer’s Studio Steering Committee and loves providing orientations to new studio members. She has had a long career of technical writing, including two full-length books and many articles on the subject of sustainable building. She is returning to her first loves, poetry and short fiction, and has published in Kerning, The Gift, and Poetry Breakfast (online). Her poem “Ode to Time” was included in the 2024 Ars Poetica program at BARN and her poem “Northern Latitudes” was featured in the local ‘Poetry Corners’ anthology for 2024.

Kassia Sing

Kassia has been creating stories her whole life. As a child, her family told her she had an “overactive imagination and she actively fosters it today. After trading the corporate ladder for small-town life, Kassia joined BARN's Writers Studio and it changed her life. She’s had three short stories published in a digital publication, Context Journal. In 2023, she won third place in short story in the annual Pacific Northwest Writers Association contest. She is a member of Sound Writers, hosts weekly writing sessions for the Writers Studio, and serves as a volunteer for several nonprofits including BARN. Kassia has one terrible novel that she will bury in her backyard, one novel that needs serious re-writing, and one good novel that she hopes to finish editing soon. She enjoys sharing the love and support offered by BARN’s writing community.

Emily Smiley

Emily is a Seattle-based Carolina native and a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA). She volunteers with BARN's Writer’s Studio and is a founder of Content Hospital, a speculative fiction writers, critique, and marketing collective. Her short story, Everything is Fine, is slated to be published with Crows and Cross Keys in early 2025. Her current work in progress, Treading Water, won in the horror category of the 2024 PNWA Unpublished Novel competition. When she’s not giving her readers nightmares, she’s exploring other fantasy/horror cross-genre ideas, putting the final touches on book one of her dark fantasy trilogy, traveling with her husband, or reading.

Molly Tallon

Molly is a Puget Sound-based, California-born writer. After earning a bachelors of arts degree in creative writing from San Francisco State, she went on to bartend for several years before meeting her beloved partner and becoming a parent. Experiencing the horrific state of perinatal care in America drew her to birth work and reproductive rights advocacy and then eventually back to writing. She is a member of BARN Writer’s Studio, and an editor for its Annual Collection. She is a founding member of Content Hospital, a rowdy critique group of speculative fiction writers. Her stories are populated by characters that aren’t always heroes, often reckoning with systems of power and control, with echoes of, and reverberations into, our own world. When she is not inviting readers to think acutely about the future of humanity, she is parenting her three children, or throwing a stick for her two dogs.

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