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“Go with the poet to language and ‘taste the iron and salt in the origin of words.’ Then read it again and again; let the objects and the poet’s eye reveal more than you knew was there.” -Farnaz Fatemi www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/glos...

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A prism, a dreamscape, and a river… Rogue Agent 127 is here! Featuring poetry by Barbara Daniels, Valarie Hastings, Elizabeth Sochko Hussain, Margaret Anne Kean, Susan Milchman, Emily Patterson, Sabyasachi Roy, Miriam Sagan, Julie Wong, and Joshua Zeitler. www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue127

Episode 78: Donna Vorreyer (Of Unrivering, Writing the Liturgy of the Body, and Creating Giving Communities in the Arts) Donna Vorreyer, author of Unrivered (Sundress Publications, 2025) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Read: “Dysmorphia (Autumn)” at Harpur Palate Purchase: Unrivered (Sund…

Donna Vorreyer, author of Unrivered and other Sundress titles, recently appeared on the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social podcast to discuss writing the Liturgy of the Body and creating giving communities in the arts. ofpoetrypodcast.com/2025/09/24/e...

Florence by Bess Cooley - Grist What Remains: Memory and Erasure in Bess Cooley’s Florence Reviewed by Dr. Kelsey L. SmootSundress Publications, October 15th, 2024Paperback, 78 pages, $16 Everything in Bess Cooley’s Florence is borr...

Thank you so much to Grist and Dr. Kelsey L. Smoot for this beautiful review of Bess Cooley's Florence! gristjournal.com/2025/10/flor...

Sundress Reads: Review of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise - The Sundress Blog In Emilia Phillips’ Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (The University of Akron Press, 2024), God is many things: they are “a knot / that knows how to untie itself,” “the first/war,”  a “voyeur, who gave / [t...

In this installment of #SundressReads, Catie Macauley reads and reviews Emilia Phillips’ collection Nonbinary Bird of Paradise, available now from the University of Akron Press! sundressblog.com/2025/09/30/s...

OF POETRY PODCAST Donna Varreyer Unrivered DONNA VORREYER (Of Unrivering, Writing the Liturgy of the Body, and Creating Giving Communities in the Arts) EPISODE 78

Happy publication week to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Unrivered (@sundresspub.bsky.social)! 🎉🎉🎉

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Best of the Net is seeking volunteer readers - 10 to 20 submissions per week - Apply by 11/1/25

The Best of the Net is looking for volunteer readers for its 2026 issue! Find out more here: bestofthenetanthology.com/work-with-us...

2026 Best of the Net Nominations

Poetry: "Punctuation, Accent, Marks" by Laura Cesarco Eglin; "Taking Up the Cause of Hallelujah" by Jeff Hardin; "a person in my grief group shares about hummingbirds" by Mikey Jones; "Over and Over" by Hiram Larew; "Monarchs" by Gregory Lobas; "Earth Will Curve You to Its Orbit" by Annette Sisson

Fiction: "No Ponyboy" by Faithna Geffrard; "Artificial Intelligence" by Kathleen Reeves Nonfiction: "Going Back to Miami" by Gustavo Pérez Firmat; "Love in the Time of Dementia" by Cynthia Stock

Photography: Sean Sexton, Kiko Salazar, and Gordon Johnston

🎉Congratulations to our 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nominations! 🎉

You definitely want to pick up this new collection from issue 1 contributor and all-around-amazing poet Donna Vorreyer!

The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood - The Sundress Blog This selection, chosen by guest editor nat raum, is from Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood (Bottlecap Press, 2025). Trouble You big messy houndyou bad bitch. I delightin your mid-air lollopyour ear-flapp...

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many thanks to nat raum and @sundresspub.bsky.social

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Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
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Erin W. Elkins (she/her) is the author of two chapbooks, Bottomland from Sundress Publications and Station of Rain from dancing girl press. A seventh-generation Hoosier, Erin was raised in southern Indiana and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Anyone ready for a new book on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor @djvorreyer.bsky.social has a new poetry collection coming out next week from @sundresspub.bsky.social 😍 You can still pre-order: buff.ly/2SEJlXW

People need food, and World Central Kitchen brings it wherever it's needed. Happy to be able to support them in this way. Pre-order sale in effect until next Tuesday!

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SAFTA/Sundress fundraising auction As many of you know, Sundress’ residency program nurtures and empowers writers underrepresented in literary publishing. “Amazing,” “life-changing,” and “productive” are some of the words used to descr...

Want to support Sundress Academy for the Arts AND get cool stuff? Check out our new online auction with some amazing donated books and more from our alumni, authors, and more! paybee.io/quickpay.htm...

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$1 from every pre-order of Donna Vorreyer's Unrivered will go to support World Central Kitchen! Find out about the important work that they do here: donate.wck.org/give/525879/...

ANMLY Submission Manager **ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

ANMLY is now open for new work!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

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*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

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Sundress Reads: Review of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise - The Sundress Blog In Emilia Phillips’ Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (The University of Akron Press, 2024), God is many things: they are “a knot / that knows how to untie itself,” “the first/war,”  a “voyeur, who gave / [t...

Adrenalized by this beautiful review of NONBINARY BIRD OF PARADISE (@uakronpress.bsky.social) by Catie Macaulay for @sundresspub.bsky.social. I feel like he truly GOT the book, its whole structure, each gesture. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Happy to announce that my debut short story collection, Tales from Manila Ave., is finally available for pre-order! Get your copy from @sundresspub.bsky.social here: sundress-publications.square.site/product/tale...

Good morning from my favorite mug and this book I just finished: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩: 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘵 𝘈𝘭𝘭. Watch for my review on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘨!

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Sundress Reads: Review of small earthly space - The Sundress Blog With an intriguing curlew bird guiding the reader on a journey of metaphysical thoughts and poppies dancing us from page to page, small earthly space (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2025) by Marjorie Maddox ...

In this week's #SundressReads, Ana Mourant reads and reviews Marjorie Maddox's illustrated poetry collection, small earthly space, available now from Shanti Arts Publishing! sundressblog.com/2025/09/11/s...

Congratulations and good luck to our 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐦𝐬 for this year!
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Sundress Publications is looking for a volunteer Hiring Director to join the team. The Hiring Director will write job ads, screen applicants, conduct interviews, and help onboard new employees. Applications due by October 15th! www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#hi...

Congratulations @yallaalia.bsky.social, @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social, @sabinejaccaud.bsky.social, Sheree Shatsky & Mike Wilson, our nominees for the next @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestoftheNet anthology. Fingers crossed!

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The Indianapolis Review 2025 Best of the Net Nominations!! @sundresspub.bsky.social
Cal Freeman, Matthew Johnson, Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Smitha Sehgal, Marian Urquilla, and Laura Grace Weldon

SmokeLong Workshop Celebration — September 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...

Our workshop participants slay us! More than 30 publications reported to us in September! We couldn't be prouder. Congratulations, trousers! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...

Saty Mukherjee, a new Reader Board Member at Sundress Publications

Saty Mukherjee (she/they) is an emerging copy editor & writer born in India but raised in the quiet suburbs of New Jersey. They graduated with a BA in English and a minor in Psychology from Rutgers. They enjoy needlework, video games, and reading by lamplight at the window.

Delicate Machinery: Poems on Survival and Healing Ed. Erin Elizabeth Smith - Sundress Publications “Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature & the Silences Around Us is packed with wonderful poems. It is an important anthology of trans voices echoing a desire to be and be accepted, but...

“Delicate Machinery is far from its definition. Raw, gutting, unflinching, this anthology is the embodiment of all the feelings that exist, emerge and triumph in the face of trauma.” -Najya Williams www.sundresspublications.com/e-anthologie...