WWS offers free public workshops lead by local, professional writers and orientations to submission strategies every other month. Topics for these workshops have included applying for academic jobs, applying for artist workshops, residencies and fellowships, strategies for submitting to contests, strategies for performing in public, pitching an essay, and strategies for writing while mothering. We also host private submission parties aka community coworking events on the off months for our members in private homes around Los Angeles. These submission parties are the core vision of our organization. In 2009, Vida, Women in Literary Arts published the first VIDA Count, which gave quantitative evidence of the disparity between men and women representation in top tier journals. The “submission party” was created as an action to change those numbers by creating a safe and supportive space for women and nonbinary writers to share resources and submit their work with community support.