Erin Elizabeth Smith
@sundresserin.bsky.social
Poet. Educator. Person most likely to be stealing your magnolia flowers.
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For Teachers & Writers Magazine, I wrote about my challenges as a disabled, neurodivergent student in the writing classroom, my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE, and ways teachers can reimagine the classroom for greater access.
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Embodied Spaces - Teachers & Writers Magazine
Reimagining the creative writing classroom for disabled access.
teachersandwritersmagazine.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
For Teachers & Writers Magazine, I wrote about my challenges as a disabled, neurodivergent student in the writing classroom, my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE, and ways teachers can reimagine the classroom for greater access.
teachersandwritersmagazine.org/embodied-spa...
teachersandwritersmagazine.org/embodied-spa...
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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Join us in Knoxville, TN for our Retreat for Survival & Healing. This free two-day retreat for sexual assault survivors will be a safe space for creativity, generative writing exercises, discussions on ways to write trauma, advice on publishing, and more. www.sundresspublications.com/safta/retreats
August 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Join us in Knoxville, TN for our Retreat for Survival & Healing. This free two-day retreat for sexual assault survivors will be a safe space for creativity, generative writing exercises, discussions on ways to write trauma, advice on publishing, and more. www.sundresspublications.com/safta/retreats
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SUNDAY is the FINAL DAY to submit your full-length poetry manuscript for this year's open reading period! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/05...
August 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
SUNDAY is the FINAL DAY to submit your full-length poetry manuscript for this year's open reading period! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/05...
So excited to go on a reading date this Saturday with the amazing Najya Williams! Join us on Instagram live this Saturday at 7PM EST to celebrate Najya's newest collection from Button Poetry! instagram.com/najyawilliams
May 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
So excited to go on a reading date this Saturday with the amazing Najya Williams! Join us on Instagram live this Saturday at 7PM EST to celebrate Najya's newest collection from Button Poetry! instagram.com/najyawilliams
Hope you can come out this Thursday to Union Ave Books! Excited to be reading with Jenny Sadre-Orafai & Alan May at 6PM! unionavebooks.com/event/2025-0...
Jenny Sadre-Orafai with Erin Elizabeth Smith and Alan May
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May 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Hope you can come out this Thursday to Union Ave Books! Excited to be reading with Jenny Sadre-Orafai & Alan May at 6PM! unionavebooks.com/event/2025-0...
Very excited to be reading with Jenny Sadre-Orafai and Alan May later this month at Union Ave Books! I hope you can come out and join us! unionavebooks.com/event/2025-0...
Jenny Sadre-Orafai with Erin Elizabeth Smith and Alan May
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May 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Very excited to be reading with Jenny Sadre-Orafai and Alan May later this month at Union Ave Books! I hope you can come out and join us! unionavebooks.com/event/2025-0...
Love seeing my students in the news for all the important crowdfunding work they're doing for local nonprofits! www.utdailybeacon.com/campus_news/...
Vols for Kids: UT students begin efforts to end food insecurity in East Tennessee
Four students at the University of Tennessee started a volunteer-based organization, Vols for Kids, dedicated to solving food scarcity in East Tennessee communities. The group teamed up with Second Ha...
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May 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Love seeing my students in the news for all the important crowdfunding work they're doing for local nonprofits! www.utdailybeacon.com/campus_news/...
Check out this excellent story about my ENGL 255 students who are fundraising for Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee! Their campaign ends on May 7th. www.wate.com/news/top-sto...
UT students raise money for Second Harvest amid federal funding cuts
Four students at University of Tennessee are raising money for Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee. It started off as a project for English Class but it grew into a passion to help others.
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April 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Check out this excellent story about my ENGL 255 students who are fundraising for Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee! Their campaign ends on May 7th. www.wate.com/news/top-sto...
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‼️For the next 2 days we will be donating underrepresented literature to local libraries for ever purchase made!!‼️
Help us grow, we’re here to spread the small press word 🧡🧡
Help us grow, we’re here to spread the small press word 🧡🧡
Dogwood Valley Books
An online, small press focused bookstore dedicated to promoting America's finest authors- indie writers.
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April 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
‼️For the next 2 days we will be donating underrepresented literature to local libraries for ever purchase made!!‼️
Help us grow, we’re here to spread the small press word 🧡🧡
Help us grow, we’re here to spread the small press word 🧡🧡
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Sundress Publications is seeking a Managing Editor to join our Best of the Net Anthology team! For more information on this volunteer position, visit www.sundresspublications.com/openings
March 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Sundress Publications is seeking a Managing Editor to join our Best of the Net Anthology team! For more information on this volunteer position, visit www.sundresspublications.com/openings
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FREE SUBMISSIONS THROUGH MARCH 15TH!
Manuscripts must be between twelve to twenty-six (12-26) pages in length. We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work, as well as visual poetry, poetry comics, and visual hybrid works.
www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/03...
Manuscripts must be between twelve to twenty-six (12-26) pages in length. We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work, as well as visual poetry, poetry comics, and visual hybrid works.
www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/03...
March 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
FREE SUBMISSIONS THROUGH MARCH 15TH!
Manuscripts must be between twelve to twenty-six (12-26) pages in length. We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work, as well as visual poetry, poetry comics, and visual hybrid works.
www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/03...
Manuscripts must be between twelve to twenty-six (12-26) pages in length. We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work, as well as visual poetry, poetry comics, and visual hybrid works.
www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/03...
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"Even when the hickory chickens / are lost in their own color, / I kick for miracles,"
😍🌱🍄🟫
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Thanks so much to Psaltery & Lyre for giving this little mushroom poem a home, and right before morel season no less! psalteryandlyre.org/2025/02/17/m...
Morels
by Erin Elizabeth Smith
psalteryandlyre.org
March 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"Even when the hickory chickens / are lost in their own color, / I kick for miracles,"
😍🌱🍄🟫
😍🌱🍄🟫
Thanks so much to Psaltery & Lyre for giving this little mushroom poem a home, and right before morel season no less! psalteryandlyre.org/2025/02/17/m...
Morels
by Erin Elizabeth Smith
psalteryandlyre.org
March 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thanks so much to Psaltery & Lyre for giving this little mushroom poem a home, and right before morel season no less! psalteryandlyre.org/2025/02/17/m...
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Today is pub day for Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice! I’m so excited to offer this craft book for free in digital and audiobook versions through @sundresspub.bsky.social.
Read here: www.sundresspublications.com/craft-chaps/...
Read here: www.sundresspublications.com/craft-chaps/...
March 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Today is pub day for Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice! I’m so excited to offer this craft book for free in digital and audiobook versions through @sundresspub.bsky.social.
Read here: www.sundresspublications.com/craft-chaps/...
Read here: www.sundresspublications.com/craft-chaps/...
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Pork Fluff, the debut poetry collection by Tiffany Hsieh, is now available for pre-order! Save $6 off the retail price when you pre-order today! sundress-publications.square.site/product/pork...
March 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Pork Fluff, the debut poetry collection by Tiffany Hsieh, is now available for pre-order! Save $6 off the retail price when you pre-order today! sundress-publications.square.site/product/pork...
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"In the fleshy forest, I look / for the new caps of woodfish, / their brainy beaks popping / in violet and sun."
@sundresserin.bsky.social's "Morels"
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/02/17/m...
@sundresserin.bsky.social's "Morels"
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/02/17/m...
Morels
by Erin Elizabeth Smith
psalteryandlyre.org
February 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"In the fleshy forest, I look / for the new caps of woodfish, / their brainy beaks popping / in violet and sun."
@sundresserin.bsky.social's "Morels"
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/02/17/m...
@sundresserin.bsky.social's "Morels"
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/02/17/m...
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A thing you can do today: call your state AG if they're part of the group trying to end the ADA. Tell them disabled people matter and the ADA is imoortant. Find their info at reps.fyi. 👇
Pressure works--South Carolina AG is slowly backing away from the lawsuit. Keep calling!
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February 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A thing you can do today: call your state AG if they're part of the group trying to end the ADA. Tell them disabled people matter and the ADA is imoortant. Find their info at reps.fyi. 👇
Remember that there are amazing organizations doing important on the ground work to resist and support those who are being targeted by the current administration.
Today I'm supporting the Trans Empowerment Project's microgrant program transempowerment.org/microgrants/
Today I'm supporting the Trans Empowerment Project's microgrant program transempowerment.org/microgrants/
Microgrants
TEP's microgrants funding program aims to assist members of our community with the financial support they need to thrive, despite the ongoing attacks against Trans lives.
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January 31, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Remember that there are amazing organizations doing important on the ground work to resist and support those who are being targeted by the current administration.
Today I'm supporting the Trans Empowerment Project's microgrant program transempowerment.org/microgrants/
Today I'm supporting the Trans Empowerment Project's microgrant program transempowerment.org/microgrants/
So excited for this line-up! 🔥
We are thrilled to announce the results of our 2024 open reading period for full-length poetry manuscripts: Dani Janae’s Hound Triptych, Abigail Raley’s Wet Specimen, SG Huerta’s Burns, and Kay E. Bancroft’s Bloodroom. www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/01...
January 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
So excited for this line-up! 🔥
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Did you know that Sundress turned 25 years old this month? Celebrate through the end of February with 25% off any of our books or broadsides with coupon code HAPPY25. 🎈🎈🎈 sundress-publications.square.site
January 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Did you know that Sundress turned 25 years old this month? Celebrate through the end of February with 25% off any of our books or broadsides with coupon code HAPPY25. 🎈🎈🎈 sundress-publications.square.site
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A professor (@sundresserin.bsky.social) once told me “if an editor likes dead deer in poems and you have a dead deer poem- send it to them.”
I just keep an eye out for my aesthetic! 🧡
I just keep an eye out for my aesthetic! 🧡
December 31, 2024 at 3:28 PM
A professor (@sundresserin.bsky.social) once told me “if an editor likes dead deer in poems and you have a dead deer poem- send it to them.”
I just keep an eye out for my aesthetic! 🧡
I just keep an eye out for my aesthetic! 🧡
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TODAY at 8:30pm (EST) is a virtual reading to organize funds for poet Aline Mello !
I personally feel uncomfortable sharing zoom links on social media, but please if you are interested in attending, send me a message and I'll send you the link
I personally feel uncomfortable sharing zoom links on social media, but please if you are interested in attending, send me a message and I'll send you the link
November 24, 2024 at 7:03 PM
TODAY at 8:30pm (EST) is a virtual reading to organize funds for poet Aline Mello !
I personally feel uncomfortable sharing zoom links on social media, but please if you are interested in attending, send me a message and I'll send you the link
I personally feel uncomfortable sharing zoom links on social media, but please if you are interested in attending, send me a message and I'll send you the link
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We are looking for members for our Reader Board. These volunteer readers’ responsibilities would primarily include reading manuscripts for contests, open reading periods, and solicited submissions, and more! Applications are due by 11/30. www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#re...
November 14, 2024 at 3:14 PM
We are looking for members for our Reader Board. These volunteer readers’ responsibilities would primarily include reading manuscripts for contests, open reading periods, and solicited submissions, and more! Applications are due by 11/30. www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#re...
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Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales. Sundress Publications. January 2024.
November 10, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales. Sundress Publications. January 2024.