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Sarah Fawn Montgomery
@sfmontgomery.bsky.social
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Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️‍🌈
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d
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.
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · May 16
It always shocks me that caregiving for disabled loved ones is often framed as a burden by abled people when caring for my disabled partner and being cared for in return is the greatest gift of intimacy I’ve ever experienced. Thanks to Crab Orchard Review for publishing my poem about disabled love!
My Partner Bathes Me When I am A Body Too Broken To believe in anything but the flat expanse of diagnosis and a blue pill, cream, scan of the body, of water that promises relief which never emerges despite doctor’s best efforts. He is patient pouring handfuls of Epsom salt to disintegrate under the sobbing tap. He makes me the bitter sea and in return I pain wail and sink to the ocean floor where I hold myself motionless as a fish shaped like a star fallen from some other galaxy. Silently he soaps my severed spine, the places where limbs pulse with damaged nerves like terrible tides. He rinses sick from my hair and health smooths his hands across my face. I rest still as a corpse so the ocean he’s created for me in the bathtub goes quiet all around. Wordless, he lifts me out of my little drowning and into the warm, steaming air.
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 2d
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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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · May 9
I’ve got another poem from my aquatic chronic pain project in the latest issue of The Indianapolis Review. Many thanks to @nataliesolmer.bsky.social for giving this poem a home!

theindianapolisreview.com/chronic-pain...
Chronic Pain as Archipelago
I am missingmy selves sisterspread across seas like ancient constellationscalling sailors homecups and arrows swimming over skiesbut in risingtides I cannot find my ownbeginning or endwade through …
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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 2d
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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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 7d
We’re halfway through our submission window! You have until November 1st to submit your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid writing, and artwork.
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 9d
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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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 19d
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!
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 22d
Our first acceptances started going out this week! Disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, we'd love to read your work!
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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · Sep 1
Nerve to Write is a new online 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!
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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · Sep 8
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be introducing you to our editors! First is founder and editor-in-chief @sfmontgomery.bsky.social.
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.”
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · Sep 3
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)!
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
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Sep 7
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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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Sep 8
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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Sep 4
"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.
fourthgenre.org/interview/es...
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."
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Sep 8
So glad it was useful! And thanks for reading!
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Sep 5
Absolutely! It's available (for free!) in digital and audio format through @sundresspub.bsky.social! www.sundresspublications.com/craft-chaps/...
Craft Chaps - Sundress Publications
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Sep 4
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.
A teal background features the cover of Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice, along with the teal and black Wordgathering logo, teal medication capsules, and purple text reading, “The one book on writing that understands the concept of spoon theory, acknowledges the veracity of crip time, and addresses the reality that not all writers live pain-free lives or have the capacity to sit at a desk, hold a pen, or put in hours of work without causing harm to our bodies or brains.”
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Sep 2
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.!
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Sep 2
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!
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Sep 2
Many thanks! Very excited about this new inclusive space!
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Sep 2
So many of us did! Happy we have a space now!
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Zoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · Sep 2
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
Brevity Submission Manager
Brevity publishes flash nonfiction: crisp, concise essays of 750 words or fewer. See our Submissions page for guidelines.
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Sep 2
Oof! I feel this.
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Sep 1
Thanks for helping us celebrate! We hope to read some of your work!
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Sep 1
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!
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Aug 25
Yours just arrived today!
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Aug 25
Thank you so much for doing this work! Will absolutely share with my students!