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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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My very good boy knows over 50 tricks, but the power of disguise might be his best. Where’s Clancy?
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October 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them
October 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Nerve to Write is open for art submissions until November 1st!
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October 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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The only thing more agonizing than invisible disability and chronic pain is having the world believe you are fine because “You don't look disabled.” Many thanks to Diode for publishing these poems about the ways invisible disability erases suffering from view.

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Still Life with Disability Shadow gives likeness possibility beyond a body’s boundaries. These days I live inanimate as a tapered candle spilling wax to harden on the table, flowers already vase wilti...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Nerve to Write is open for hybrid submissions until November 1st! Send us your graphic poetry and narrative, comics, erasures, speculative work, and more!
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October 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Growing up, ballet was as far from my working-class roots as possible, yet my construction worker father encouraged my passion to dance on pointe. Many thanks to @riverteeth.bsky.social for publishing this essay about dancing with my father toward my dreams.

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October 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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“Montgomery sensitively and candidly addresses domestic violence, casual intimidation, and sexual assault . . . Abbreviate is a necessary and resonant book.” Many thanks to Jami Macarty and @newpages.bsky.social for this lovely review of ABBREVIATE.

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Book Review :: Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Montgomery’s essays expose how patriarchal conditioning diminishes girls while celebrating female resilience, friendship, and reclamation.
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October 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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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
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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.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Nerve to Write is open for fiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash fiction, full-length stories, and more!
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October 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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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.
sfmontgomery.bsky.social 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.
October 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Many thanks to @nataliesolmer.bsky.social and Indianapolis Review for nominating one of my chronic pain poems for Best of the Net!
October 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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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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October 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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.
September 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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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!
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September 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Our first acceptances started going out this week! Disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, we'd love to read your work!
nervetowrite.bsky.social 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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September 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be introducing you to our editors! First is founder and editor-in-chief @sfmontgomery.bsky.social.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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
September 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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
September 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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"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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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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September 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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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.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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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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September 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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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!
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September 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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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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...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM