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My graduate poetry workshop students will be writing and submitting book reviews this fall! If you have a recent/forthcoming poetry collection or chapbook—especially a debut—you’d like them to consider, please let me know!

What a wonderful way to start the week! I'm so honored you spent time with this collection!

@sfmontgomery.bsky.social Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sarahfawnmontgomery with a poem about chronic pain in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/chronic-pain...
#poetry #chronicpain #poem #poetryjournal

“It has been brought to our attention that you are a person with disabilities (or is it a disabled person?).” By @sfmontgomery.bsky.social

Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/you-have-bee...

Thank you for reading and sharing!

You Have Been Chosen to Lead a Workplace Seminar on Disability It has been brought to our attention that you are a person with disabilities (or is it a disabled person?).

For Disability Pride Month I’ve published my first piece of satire! Thanks to @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social for publishing this piece about how often disabled employees are expected to do free labor to make companies and colleagues aware that we exist…

thebelladonnacomedy.com/you-have-bee...

New on our new website: @sfmontgomery.bsky.social in conversation with @cindybradleywriter.bsky.social discussing all things ABBREVIATE: what it means growing up female and feeling small, those troublesome middle school years, Dungeons & Dragons, and so much more. Link in comments.

For @underthesunonline.bsky.social I spoke with @cindybradleywriter.bsky.social about hybrid forms, writing ’90s girlhood, and the origin stories of several essays in ABBREVIATE!

underthesunlitmag.com/abbreviate-c...

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Hunger Mountain Review – VCFA Journal of the Arts Hunger Mountain is the VCFA Journal of the Arts

For Hunger Mountain I spoke with Juliet Way-Henthorne about girlhood, ghosts, and rebellion in ABBREVIATE.

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Book Review: Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery Peek into the quiet and often invisible world of girlhood in a beautifully written memoir-in-flash. ABBREVIATE by Sarah Fawn Montgomery (Small Harbor Publishing) reviewed by Victoria Lilly.

Many thanks to Victoria Lilly and Independent Book Review for this thoughtful review that describes my hybrid collection ABBREVIATE as “Poetic and impressionistic—a deeply moving coming-of-age story and a powerful critique of American culture.”

independentbookreview.com/2025/07/07/b...

CRAFT: Not Too Small to Matter: Using Form and Structure to Create Meaning by Sarah Fawn Montgomery | Hippocampus Magazine "I was told my tales were unimportant. I was told little girls should be seen and not heard." - Sarah Fawn Montgomery in her CRAFT columnMay-June 2025 issue.

"When I decided to write about my girlhood, these stories of smallness were the ones I wanted to share." -- Sarah Fawn Montgomery's CRAFT column "Not Too Smal...
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/craft-not-too-small-to-matter-using-form-and-structure-to-create-meaning-by-sarah-fawn-montgomery/

The red CLMP logo sits in the top left corner followed by black text reading “A Reading List for Disability Pride Month 2025,” the cover of “Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice,” and the text “This craft chapbook interrogates privilege within the creative writing classroom, making space for disability, chronic illness, and neurodivergence.

Today marks the start of Disability Pride Month and I’m thrilled my @sundresspub.bsky.social NERVE is included in this @clmporg.bsky.social reading list along with so many disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent favorites!

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Laurel Review - Sarah Fawn Montgomery

For Laurel Review I spoke with @lukerolfes.bsky.social about ableist storytelling conventions, how refusing to apologize for disabled identity can influence our practice, and writing my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE.

laurelreview.org/sarah-fawn-m...

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To Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques - Electric Literature I masked in workshop and on the page, even as it invalidated my lived experience

I read the Conscious Style Guide regularly (thanks @karenyin.bsky.social) It helps me be a clearer & better writer. The latest issue shared "To Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques" by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social A great read.

electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...

Small Spaces, Small Stories: Essaying the Lives of Girls and Women Sarah Fawn Montgomery Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s small collection of small essays, Abbreviate, examines how the injustice and violence of girlhood leads women to accept—and even claim—small spaces and…

"Nonfiction allows me to write the truth of my experience in a world that seeks to silence this truth. There is a freedom in the genre that girls and women are not afforded in our current cultural and political climate." ~ @sfmontgomery.bsky.social   brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/s...

Small Spaces, Small Stories: Essaying the Lives of Girls and Women Sarah Fawn Montgomery Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s small collection of small essays, Abbreviate, examines how the injustice and violence of girlhood leads women to accept—and even claim—small spaces and…

For @dintywmoore.bsky.social I spoke with Mialise Carney about using the flash form as reclamation, performance on and off the page, and writing the stories of girls and women in ABBREVIATE during this social and political moment.

brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/s...

For @essaydaily.bsky.social I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE.

www.essaydaily.org/2025/06/sara...

Only a few days left to register for my virtual ABBREVIATE launch reading on June 18 at 6pm ET! Join me on Zoom!

Register here: tinyurl.com/5n863svm

CRAFT: Not Too Small to Matter: Using Form and Structure to Create Meaning by Sarah Fawn Montgomery | Hippocampus Magazine "I was told my tales were unimportant. I was told little girls should be seen and not heard." - Sarah Fawn Montgomery in her CRAFT columnMay-June 2025 issue.

For @hippocampusmag.bsky.social I wrote about using themes to guide your form and structure and how feeling small as a girl led me to write ABBREVIATE, a small collection of small essays.

hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/craf...