SWWIM sustains and celebrates women poets by connecting creatives across generations and by curating a living archive of contemporary poetry, while solidifying Miami as a nexus for the literary arts.
Good writing is only half of the job. What are the next steps to enter into publishing and the business of writing? Together, we will learn, discuss and demystify how to identify and submit to literary magazines and presses, fellowships, residencies, and grant opportunities that will provide you with necessary support, foundation and community. We will look at the various application parts including what makes a standout artist statement, project description, and sample—and get your packet polished and ready to apply! This submission clinic is for writers at all ages and stages of their careers, and is part of SWWIM's mission to center women+ who statistically apply and receive the least. For personalized feedback, please send a 250-word artist statement, a 250-word project description, and a 10-page portfolio by 11/19. If there is a particular literary magazine/press, fellowship, residency, or grant, please note and come ready to share. Space is limited to 25 people.
Facilitator bio
S. Erin Batiste is an interdisciplinary poet. Her work centers Black women and is rooted in the poetics of the archive—exploring themes of freedom, the complexity of memory, what we consider history, and the ways we all inherit and collect possessions and stories. She is a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature. Additionally, she has received generous and overwhelming support including 18 fellowships and 17 residencies from Cave Canem, NYFA/NYSCA, The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, Poetry Society of America, Powerhouse Arts, PEN America, The Poetry Project, Poets & Writers, SWWIM, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Kolaj Institute, Loghaven Artist Residency, Salzburg Summer Academy, and San Francisco Center for the Book among other honors. She has recently juried for New York Foundation for the Arts, Powerhouse Arts, and The Studios at MASS MoCA.
Her poetry is published and anthologized widely in wildness, Interim, and New Letters, and she is currently working on her debut poetry collection, Hoard. Batiste runs Revival Archival Cards, Collage & Salvage — a mobile arts studio in Brooklyn. Her collages appear in Callaloo, Create!, Michigan Quarterly Review, Obsidian, Southern Cultures, Vassar Review, and Women Studies Quarterly—and her art zine, Providence—reclaiming early 1900's Black archives from the New Orleans Public Library, is in its fourth handmade edition. She has exhibited and presented internationally at Burnaway's Book//Zine Fair, Volume 8 MTL, LA Zine Fest, Black Zine Fair NYC, and the Center for Afrofuturist Studies Ordinary Survival Film Festival. She is influenced by beauty, otherworlds, waymaking and migration, divination and astrology, accumulation and maximalism, Americana—and what remains.
