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Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 Why You Should Submit to Literary Journals
Are you an emerging writer or experienced? Do you write fiction or nonfiction—or poetry? On Wednesday, September 13, learn tips and techniques on how to get published in literary journals. Meet our panel of established writers who will share their personal experiences and inside knowledge on the topic of publishing in literary journals. The Literary Journals panel discussion will include Kelli Allen, Gianna Jacobson, Linda O’Connell, and Kim Lozano.
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Kelli Allen’s work has appeared in numerous
journals and anthologies in the US and internationally. She is Poetry Editor
for The Lindenwood Review and directs
River Styx’s Hungry Young Poets
Series. Her chapbook, Some Animals,
won the 2016 Etchings Press Prize, and her chapbook, How We Disappear, won the 2016 Damfino Press Award. Her full-length
poetry collection, Otherwise, Soft White
Ash, arrived from John Gosslee Books (2012) and was nominated for the
Pulitzer Prize. Her latest collection, Imagine
Not Drowning, was released by C&R Press in January 2017. Learn
more about Kelli Allen at 
Gianna Jacobson is the editor and publisher of december, a semi-annual literary journal
based in St. Louis with contributors and subscribers all over the world. Gianna
has an MFA in creative writing with an emphasis in fiction from UMSL, and her
stories and essays have appeared in a variety of publications. Before turning
to literary pursuits, she spent 20 years as a journalist. Contact Gianna at 
Kim Lozano teaches creative writing for the St.
Louis Writers Workshop and St. Louis Oasis. She served as a senior contributing
editor at River Styx for six years.
Her work has been published in Poetry
Daily, The Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Poet Lore,
and many other publications. Reach out to Kim at