Join us for an afternoon of poetry and prose to celebrate the third anniversary of the ATX Chapter of Women Who Submit.
Featuring:
Cristina Adams
Eddie Hollis Edwards
Elizabeth Erbeznik
Rowan Floyd
Carmen Gray
Jess Hagemann
Hollie Hardy
Macy Hurwitz
Cindy Huyser
Meg Jerit
Desiree Kannel
Kara Lenore
C.M. Moorhead
Lauren Oertel
Jennifer Lee Quinlan
Ramona Reeves
Nikei S Salas
Hosted by:
Hollie Hardy & Meg Jerit
Women Who Submit is an organization that began in Los Angeles and now has many chapters across the United States, Canada, and Europe. The organization seeks to empower women and nonbinary writers by creating physical and virtual spaces for sharing information, supporting and encouraging submissions to literary journals, and clarifying the submission and publication process.
The Austin chapter began in late 2023 and meets to write, share information and submit work the second Saturday of every month. Membership is free. Join us!
Saturday, December 5, 2026
4pm - 6pm
Radio Coffee & Beer (South)
4204 Menchaca Rd
Austin, TX
Free Event
Author Bios
Cristina Adams is a Cuban American poet, and author of Copycat: A fabulous (and slightly naughty) memoir of a life in fashion (Atmosphere Press, 2024). Her poems have appeared in Quartet, The Broken Teacup, Texas Bards Poetry Anthology 2026, Dickinson Review, Buffalo Press, Minetta Review and other publications. She is currently working on her first full-length poetry collection and lives in Austin with her husband the professor and Luna the dog.
Eddie Hollis Edwards Eddie Hollis Edwards writes often on themes of love and death: two subjects she knows well. She runs The Island of Misfit Poets at Birdhouse Books—and spits truth at Every Word Poetry at Vortex, The I Scream Social at Alienated Majesty, Austin Poetry Slam at Barrel of Fun, Poet Lounge at Radio, and any corner of the city that will let her bleed into a mic.
Elizabeth Erbeznik’s stories and poems have appeared in Best Small Fictions, Anacapa Review, Catamaran Literary, Los Angeles Review, Terrain.org, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. Her prose chapbook The Oboe is a Duck was the winner of The Florida Review’s 2026 Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award. She is from California.
Rowan Floyd is a literary comedy (“litcom”) author based in Austin, Texas. Her debut novel TOO MUCH HEAVEN released this November from Cackle Books, her comedy imprint. Her other work includes the short story “The Bitches of Eastwick” from Mixed Bag of Tricks and several short film comedies.
Carmen Gray is a freelance author, poet, and journalist. Her writing blends horror, speculative and historical fiction. A native Texan of Mexican-American heritage, she is a retired teacher and channels her multicultural background into research and storytelling. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and literary journals. She recently edited a collection of women’s horror stories, Beneath The Bluebonnets (May 2026). carmengraywriter.com
Jess Hagemann’s debut novel Headcheese won a 2019 IPPY Award in Horror. Her sophomore novel Mother-Eating was named a “Most-Anticipated Horror Book of 2025” by Paste Magazine and made Bloody Disgusting’s list of Best Horror Books of 2025. That same year, Rapture Publishing issued a standalone chapbook of her short story “Resurrection.” In 2026, she wrote the officially licensed novelization of the movie Burning Palms for Encyclopocalypse Publications.
Hollie Hardy is a poet, editor, and author of Lions Like Us (Red Light Lit Press) and How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press). She teaches writing workshops online and hosts the monthly reading series Saturday Night Special: A Virtual Open Mic.
holliehardy.com or follow @hollie.hardy
Macy Hurwitz is a writer and editor from Sunset Valley, Texas. Macy recently received her MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe, and when she's not writing or editing for profit or pleasure, she enjoys making niche playlists and hiking with her hound, Morty.
Cindy Huyser is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Cartography (3: A Taos Press, 2025), the contest-winning chapbook, Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems (Blue Horse Press, 2014), and co-editor of Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems (Dos Gatos Press, 2016). She holds an MFA from Pacific University.
Meg Jerit is a writer, poet, educator, and community organizer from Memphis, who earned her MFA from Columbia College Chicago. She has been published in various literary journals and has attended Kenyon Review Summer Writers Workshop, StoryStudio Chicago, and Aspen Summer Words. She hosts Smushed Blueberries: Stories, Poems & Other Juice, an in-person, monthly reading series and open mic and teaches workshops through her collective, Water & Ink.
Desiree Kannel is a writer and educator who moved to Texas 6 years ago from Long Beach, California where she was the WWS chapter co-leader. She has two novels out in the world, Lucky John (2020) and The Delaney Bennets (2023) and a few stories published online.
Kara Lenore is a science fiction author and alumna of the Viable Paradise workshop. Her debut novel, Beneath a Sun Deprived Sky, was a Publishers Weekly BookLife Editor’s Pick, and her manuscript Thia’s Key was a finalist in the Writers’ League of Texas 2025 Manuscript Contest.
C.M. Moorhead is a writer for money for a financial wellness website, and a writer for fulfillment of shorts, scripts, plays and poetry. She is the founder and editor-at-large of the literary magazine The Sneaky Ottoman Review here in Austin, where she is also in constant pursuit of well-patterned pants and run-on sentences.
Lauren Oertel is a writer, editor, workshop facilitator, and community organizer based in Austin, Texas. She is coauthor and contributor for the books Inside Out: A Texas Prisons Poetry Story and Beneath the Bluebonnets: Tales of Terror by Texas Women. Scars & Other Luxuries is her debut full-length poetry collection.
Jennifer Lee Quinlan is a poet and paralegal living in Austin. Published in a few small literary magazines, her work frequently explores the delightfully sublime magic of the mundane. When not writing she can be found on a dusty trail out in the Hill Country, riding off into the sunset.
Ramona Reeves‘ first book was featured in the Washington Post and Southern Review of Books. Until recently she was the chapter lead for Women Who Submit in Austin. Stay tuned for big news in 2027!
Nikei S. Salas is an author, storyteller, and inspiration giver whose writing explores healing, transformation, spirituality, and the mysteries of life. Her books include Black Girl Gone Guru, He Poisoned Me and Left Me for Dead, and her newest release, The Trees Married Them, a mystical love story told by our greatest ancestors, the trees.