The 2026 Best of the Net Anthology is live! Check out all of this year's award-winning poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art plus our full list of 2026 finalists! https://bestofthenetanthology.com/

Thanks so much to Glass Poetry for including my poem "Numbering the Days" last week! www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2026...

Today on Glass! "Numbering the Days" by Erin Elizabeth Smith (@sundresserin.bsky.social)! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

‼️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 🧡🧡

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

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...

"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...

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/...

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...

"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...

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/

So excited for this line-up! 🔥

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

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

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...

Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales. Sundress Publications. January 2024.

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present “Before and After: Taking the BIPOC Road to Literary Taxidermy,” a free virtual workshop led by Denise Ervin on Wednesday, July 10th from 6-7:30 PM EST. sundressblog.com/2024/07/02/s...

Sundress Publications is pleased to announce that the readers for our 2024 AWP off-site journals reading, which include beestung, Rogue Agent, Doubleback Review, and The Wardrobe! sundressblog.com/2024/01/28/2...

“Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales is a brilliant, beast-toothed page-turner of a collection. Here, Southern Gothic twists into apocalypse, fables are as real as fossils, & the horrors of survival bloom like mushrooms after rain.” —Catherine Pierce sundress-publications.square.site/product/slau...

Join us on January 10th from 6:00-7:30PM EST for "Humanimal: Between Human Beings and Animals,” a free virtual workshop led by Si-Min Chong. We will read works examining the ways the living beings make a home, gather food, and experiment with ways of being and play. sundressblog.com/2024/01/03/s...

My Roomba: Error 14 Me: Hey, little buddy, stop eating your feelings.

Me, watching 2001: Oh, Hal, you scamp.

Deadline TODAY!

We're hosting its fourth generative writing retreat celebrating survival and healing on March 22-23, 2024. This two-day retreat for sexual assault survivors will be held in Oak Ridge, TN. www.sundresspublications.com/safta/retreats

Today!

It’s very weird watching your former dog go viral.

Sitting in a cafe in Santiago, Chile and the proprietor is singing along to all the deep cuts of Oasis’s What’s the Story Morning Glory, and I’m filled with small joy.

Preorder Evie Berry’s GRIEF SLUT today! 🌸🌟🌙✨ sundress-publications.square.site/product/grie...

This campus mushroom is my white whale.

My partner referred to me as Party Girl Emeritus, and honestly, that’s going in the bio.

Actual text message I just sent: Want to get ceviche at the old strip club in Chapman?

Cabin crew: Is there a Dr on board? Me: I am a Dr Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701

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One of my students turned in a workshop poem in Garamond and everyone lost their mind. Literally the first comment was “What font is this???” This is how I know they are ready for the world.

“I am writing to tell you/I’m leaving. My car is tight/as new shoes.” - Ghost||Animal, @sundresserin.bsky.social

I would really like to see a John Wick style remake of The Lorax.