Women Writers

The Betsy Write'r’s Room has provided a home for SWWIM - Supporting Women Writers in Miami - since its founding in 2015 by Catherine Esposito Prescott, Jen Karetnick, Caridad Moro-Gronlier,  and Alexandra Lytton Regalado. With a vision to  ensure that women not only have a space to share and promote their work, but also to connect with each other, SWWIM publishes, promotes, and celebrates women writers, trans and cis women, nonbinary, intersex, and other gender-expansive communities, with a year-round reading series held at The Betsy-South Beach in Miami Beach, FL and the online poetry journal SWWIM Every Day.  Poems first published in SWWIM Every Day have been included in Best American Poetry and the Best American Poetry blog, Best of the Net, The Orison Anthology, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, Substack Reads, The Writer’s Almanac, and Women's Voices for Change, among other anthologies, podcasts, and columns, and have garnered Pushcart nominations from contributing editors.

The Betsy Writer’s Room commitment to SWWIM includes seven annual residencies; each includes a ‘meet the artist’ and reading event that features both the visiting writer and a local wordsmith. SWWIM.org

Watch Zen and the Art of Poetry by Women:   https://shorturl.at/djwy7 (2021)