Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Many thanks to Crab Orchard Review for nominating my poem about disabled love and the intimacy of caregiving for Best of the Net. This poem is close to my heart and I'm honored to have had such a beautiful response to it from readers.

Many thanks to @nataliesolmer.bsky.social and Indianapolis Review for nominating one of my chronic pain poems for Best of the Net!

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Nerve to Write is open for nonfiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash nonfiction, lyric essays, memoir, and more!

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We’re halfway through our submission window! You have until November 1st to submit your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid writing, and artwork.

I had such a wonderful homecoming at Fresno State for the Fresno Writers Summit! It was an honor to read from ABBREVIATE alongside writers I admire like @snajmi.bsky.social and Suzanne Lummis.

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Are you a disabled, chronically ill, or neurodivergent writer with a recent or forthcoming book? If so, query us about our new book review and interview series. We'd love to celebrate your work!

Our first acceptances started going out this week! Disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, we'd love to read your work!

A raspberry background features black text reading “Meet the Editors” and “Sarah Fawn Montgomery” “Editor-in-Chief.” The black image of a neuron sits next to a photo of a pixie haired woman in round glasses and a cream sweater smiling in a bright forest. The bio reads in black text “Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of the craft text Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice and Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, which The Atlantic says, “Exemplifies a nuanced approach to life with mental illness” and The Paris Review describes as “The wakeup call we need.” She is also the author of the essay collection Halfway from Home, the flash collection Abbreviate, and three poetry chapbooks. She is an Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University.”

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be introducing you to our editors! First is founder and editor-in-chief @sfmontgomery.bsky.social.

OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS: Looking to home your out-of-print book? Try us at Lost/Found, a new imprint at Split/Lip Press. Rolling submissions are now open! splitlippress.submittable.com

And it's go time! Submissions to our Lost/Found imprint are now open. Is your out-of-print prose book in need of a new home? If so, we'd love to consider your book for republication.

Our Lost/Found Editor @abigailoswald.bsky.social is waiting at
splitlippress.submittable.com (also linked in bio)!

We're starting ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a new mag! 😍 Contributor @sfmontgomery.bsky.social announced @nervetowrite.bsky.social, a magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers! Check them out here: buff.ly/KiSVek5

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Essaying as Empowerment - An Interview with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Jody Keisner Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Jody Keisner sit down to discuss essayistic empowerment in their new collections, "Halfway from Home" and "Under My Bed and Other Essays."

"Essays that dwell in uncertainty are in many ways closest to the truth of the human experience." Thank you @sfmontgomery.bsky.social for this inspiration today. Needed it.
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So glad it was useful! And thanks for reading!

Craft Chaps - Sundress Publications

Absolutely! It's available (for free!) in digital and audio format through @sundresspub.bsky.social! www.sundresspublications.com/craft-chaps/...

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Endless gratitude to @onagritz.bsky.social and @wordgathering.bsky.social for this review of my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE, which so beautifully describes how I hoped to position my writing advice for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers.

Yes, we'll have defined issues and rolling interviews and reviews. And you can check out our website for more info on design, submissions, etc.!

Wonderful! We're open to all genres (you can see more on our website) so whatever you're working on would be wonderful to read in the submission queue!

Many thanks! Very excited about this new inclusive space!

So many of us did! Happy we have a space now!

Brevity Submission Manager Brevity publishes flash nonfiction: crisp, concise essays of 750 words or fewer. See our Submissions page for guidelines.

Brevity is now open for submissions! 📣 We are currently reading personal essays of 750 words or fewer in any style or subgenre. Writers whose perspectives have been traditionally underrepresented in publishing are especially encouraged to submit! Guidelines: brevity.submittable.com/submit

Oof! I feel this.

Thanks for helping us celebrate! We hope to read some of your work!

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Surprise!!! I’m excited to announce @nervetowrite.bsky.social, a magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!

Yours just arrived today!

Thank you so much for doing this work! Will absolutely share with my students!

Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery - MER - Mom Egg Review Review by Lara Lillibridge   Skip It, Spice Girls, vanilla body spray, Dr. Pepper Lip Smackers and frosted eyeshadow. “We’ve grown up when being captured on-screen is still a novelty.” Sarah Fawn Mont...

What a beautiful start to the last week of summer! Endless gratitude to @laralillibridge.bsky.social and @merliterary.bsky.social for this generous review of ABBREVIATE!

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Wonderful! Would love an electronic copy!

Thank you so much for reading my collection!

REVIEW: Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery | Hippocampus Magazine Sarah Fawn Montgomery has a way with words. In her memoir of mini-essays, Abbreviate, she uses them in unique and startling ways.

“This is the story of womanhood, gaslit until we almost believe it ourselves . . . Read this book for catharsis.” Many thanks to Sandra Eliason and @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for this wonderful review of ABBREVIATE!

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Wonderful! Will you DM me so we can talk logistics?