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By: sundresspublications on Thursday, February 12, 2026
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors by Diana Raab
This selection, chosen by Guest Editor Maggie Rue Hess, is from Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors by Diana Raab (Modern History Press 2024). Content Warning: mention of suicide                  ...
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February 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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By: sundresspublications on Monday, February 9, 2026
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors by Diana Raab
This selection, chosen by Guest Editor Maggie Rue Hess, is from Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors by Diana Raab (Modern History Press 2024).                                Hummingbird I have fal...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Sundress Reads: Review of earthwork
Spanning decades and relationships, dream worlds and memories and therapy sessions, Jill Khoury’s soaring, elegiac collection earthwork (Switchback Books, 2024) invites readers into the volatile and i...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Choose your favorite or least favorite cliché (ex: water under the bridge, early bird gets the worm, misery loves company, etc.) and write a story or poem that challenges this image. How can you complicate or subvert its meaning? #SundressPublications #weeklywritingprompt
February 8, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Meet Our New Intern: Reina Maiden-Navarro
For a long time, I was told my writing was “proficient.” Not good, not even okay, but proficient. In fact, every single one of my papers was marked with this word in a large red scrawl.  You see, my e...
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February 7, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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By: sundresspublications on Thursday, February 5, 2026
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Running Wild by Patricia McMillen
This selection, chosen by Guest Editor Maggie Rue Hess, is from Running Wild by Patricia McMillen (Finishing Line Press 2024). Forgiveness is a hard woman insisting I spendNew Year’s Day writing an ap...
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February 6, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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By: sundresspublications on Monday, February 2, 2026
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Running Wild by Patricia McMillen
This selection, chosen by Guest Editor Maggie Rue Hess, is from Running Wild by Patricia McMillen (Finishing Line Press 2024). Editor’s Note I owe Esinam Bediako, Patricia ‘Ti’ McMillen, guest editor ...
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February 3, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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By: sundresspublications on Sunday, February 1, 2026
Sundress Reads: Review of Autobiography of the [Undead]
Every once in a while, a book comes along that changes everything for you, that throws open the door of possibility, breaks off the hinges, and demolishes the doorframe altogether, leaving a gaping ho...
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February 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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Sundress Academy for the Arts Presents “Love Hurts: Writing the Break-up Poem”
The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present “Love Hurts: Writing the Break-up Poem,” a workshop led by Amie Whittemore  on Wednesday, February 11th from 6:00-7:30 PM EST. This event will b...
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February 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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By: sundresspublications on Monday, January 26, 2026
Sundress Reads: Review of It’s No Fun Anymore
Brittany Micka-Foos’s debut short story collection, It’s No Fun Anymore (Apprentice House Press, 2025), is a necessary culmination of raw characters and stories that stare directly into the face of wo...
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January 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Meet Our New Intern: Nafisa Hussain
Despite being a voracious reader as a child, I cannot pinpoint the exact moment in my teenage years when I began to view reading as a chore rather than a delight. My memories from my earlier years are...
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January 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Meet Our New Intern: Brianna Eaton
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf was one of the first books I read that I physically could not put down. I felt like an archeologist that had just discovered something completely new. Here I was,...
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January 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Self-Talk by Esinam Bediako
This selection, chosen by Guest Editor Romy Ewing, is from Self-Talk by Esinam Bediako (Porkbelly Press 2025). Content Warning: racism or racialized violence Body/Mind Braid In elementary school, some...
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January 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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By: sundresspublications on Sunday, January 18, 2026
Sundress Reads: Review of Blind to the Prairie
Blind to the Prairie (Bottlecap Press, 2025) by Tate Lewis-Carroll is a slow and tender reflection on seeing. In this collection of haiku, Lewis-Carroll captures the rhythms of the Midwestern landscap...
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January 19, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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By: sundresspublications on Monday, January 19, 2026
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: FLOWN by B. Fulton Jennes
This selection, chosen by Guest Editor Romy Ewing, is from FLOWN by B. Fulton Jennes (Porkbelly Press 2024). What’s an Atheist? I Ask My Dying Sister, 1965 A Christmas Eve visitto a widow’s home. She’...
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January 19, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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By: sundresspublications on Thursday, January 15, 2026
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Mapping the Borderlands by Barbara Sabol
This selection, chosen by Guest Editor Romy Ewing, is from Mapping the Borderlands by Barbara Sabol (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2025). Letting the Kneeler Down Forgive me the absence of all feeling. My he...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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By: sundresspublications on Thursday, January 8, 2026
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Palm Up, Fingers Curled by Abby Lewis
This selection, chosen by Guest Editor Romy Ewing, is from Palm Up, Fingers Curled by Abby Lewis (Plan B Press, 2023). Content Warning: sexual violence                  Snippets—I Can’t “Sometimes I c...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:04 AM