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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 4h

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...

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...

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 7h

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

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/efda5033

Unrivered here: sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...

OF POETRY PODCAST
Donna Varreyer
Unrivered
DONNA VORREYER
(Of Unrivering, Writing the Liturgy of the Body, and Creating Giving Communities in the Arts)
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 9h

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

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

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Postcard @postcardlit.bsky.social · 1d

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

Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 1d

Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 2d

look! it is a Dogwitch!

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

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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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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 1d

Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 5d

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!

Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 5d

$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/...

World Central Kitchen

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 4d

If you'd like to see beestung keep buzzing, please consider dropping a few bucks our way 🖤💛🖤💛

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 5d

We're still trying to raise $246 this year to cover expenses, if you're feeling generous.

We'll never charge a submission fee, and we pay our writers.

Your help will also ensure that we can bring on a guest editor in the new year, to avoid that whole 'monolithic voice' business 💛🖤

Thank you. 🐝

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy non-binary day and week!

We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.

If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year.

Shares are very much appreciated, too!

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 5d

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 5d

$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/...

World Central Kitchen

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 5d

ANMLY is now open for new work!

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

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

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

> anmly.org/ap40

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...

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Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social · 5d

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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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...

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Patrick Joseph Caoile @caoilepa.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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Editing by Ana Mourant @editoranamourant.bsky.social · 6d

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!

@editorsteaclub.bsky.social #Day2 Social Media Challenge
#EditorsTeaClubCommunity
@sundresspub.bsky.social #SundressReads
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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 ...

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Ink In Thirds @inkinthirds.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations and good luck to our 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐦𝐬 for this year!
@sundresspub.bsky.social

Take a look at their work in the issues: inkinthirds.org/vol-5-i-2/ and inkinthirds.org/vol-6-i-1/

#bestofthenet

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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The Woolf (Official) @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social · 7d

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!

#flashfiction #prosepoetry #creativenonfiction

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Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 7d

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

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Saty Mukherjee, a new Reader Board Member at Sundress Publications

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