Submit, Submit, Submit! with Alexina Dalgetty

Part of Deer Writers & Readers Fest. For more information, visit rdpl.org/culture-days. Registration for author presentations is encouraged and appreciated! Session B1: Submit, Submit, Submit! For anyone uncertain how to submit and terrified of rejection. I believe submitting our work makes us better writers. It forces us to structure, resolve, edit and meet deadlines. But where and how to submit? A quick introduction to submitting in today's fast changing publishing ecology along with a couple of strategies for blunting the pain of rejection. Biography Alexina Dalgetty has written plays and, more recently, prose. Her debut novel, The Cleaning Woman's Daughter (2023), was published by Liquorice Fish Books. Her hybrid novel, A Crack in The Map, won the 2024 Cinnamon Literature Prize and published this year (2026). Her short fiction publications include Agnes and True, Breakwater Review, Stand Magazine, Prairie Journal and Queen's Quarterly (forthcoming).