Erin Elizabeth Smith
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Poet. Educator. Person most likely to be stealing your magnolia flowers.
Thanks so much to Glass Poetry for including my poem "Numbering the Days" last week!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2026...
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Erin Elizabeth Smith | Numbering the Days | Glass: A Journal of Poetry
https://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2026/january/smith-numbering.html
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Glass Poetry Press
18 days ago
Today on Glass! "Numbering the Days" by Erin Elizabeth Smith (
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www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery
4 months ago
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.
https://teachersandwritersmagazine.org/embodied-spaces/
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Aubrey Hirsch
4 months ago
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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Sundress Publications
5 months ago
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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Sundress Publications
5 months ago
SUNDAY is the FINAL DAY to submit your full-length poetry manuscript for this year's open reading period!
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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
9 months ago
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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...
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Jenny Sadre-Orafai with Erin Elizabeth Smith and Alan May
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9 months ago
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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!
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Jenny Sadre-Orafai with Erin Elizabeth Smith and Alan May
https://unionavebooks.com/event/2025-05-15/jenny-sadre-orafai-erin-elizabeth-smith-and-alan-may
9 months ago
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Love seeing my students in the news for all the important crowdfunding work they're doing for local nonprofits!
www.utdailybeacon.com/campus_news/...
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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...
https://www.utdailybeacon.com/campus_news/local_campus_news/vols-for-kids-ut-students-begin-efforts-to-end-food-insecurity-in-east-tennessee/article_b54af7f3-0980-4d62-9b58-fdccc873aa49.html
9 months ago
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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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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.
https://www.wate.com/news/top-stories/ut-students-raise-money-for-second-harvest-amid-federal-funding-cuts/
9 months ago
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Dogwood Valley Books
10 months ago
‼️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 🧡🧡
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Dogwood Valley Books
An online, small press focused bookstore dedicated to promoting America's finest authors- indie writers.
https://dogwoodvalleybooks.myshopify.com
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Sundress Publications
11 months ago
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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Sundress Publications
11 months ago
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.
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Burgi Zenhaeusern
11 months ago
"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...
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Morels
by Erin Elizabeth Smith
https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/02/17/morels/
11 months ago
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery
11 months ago
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:
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Sundress Publications
11 months ago
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!
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Psaltery & Lyre
12 months ago
"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"
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Morels
by Erin Elizabeth Smith
https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/02/17/morels/
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Celeste Ng
12 months ago
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
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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/
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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.
https://transempowerment.org/microgrants/
about 1 year ago
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So excited for this line-up! 🔥
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about 1 year ago
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Sundress Publications
about 1 year ago
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. 🎈🎈🎈
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Gardner Dorton
about 1 year ago
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! 🧡
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aɐrik francis
about 1 year ago
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
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Sundress Publications
about 1 year ago
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.
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Hannah V Warren
about 1 year ago
Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales. Sundress Publications. January 2024.
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Sundress Publications
over 1 year ago
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.
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Sundress Academy for the Arts Presents "Before and After: Taking the BIPOC Road to Literary Taxidermy" - The Sundress Blog
The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present “Before and After: Taking the BIPOC Road to Literary Taxidermy,” a workshop led by Denise Ervin on Wednesday, July 10th, 2024, from 6-7:30 PM ES...
https://sundressblog.com/2024/07/02/sundress-academy-for-the-arts-presents-before-and-after-taking-the-bipoc-road-to-literary-taxidermy/
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Sundress Publications
almost 2 years ago
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!
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Sundress Publications
about 2 years ago
“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
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Sundress Publications
about 2 years ago
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...
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My Roomba: Error 14 Me: Hey, little buddy, stop eating your feelings.
about 2 years ago
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Me, watching 2001: Oh, Hal, you scamp.
about 2 years ago
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Deadline TODAY!
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about 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
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
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Today!
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about 2 years ago
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It’s very weird watching your former dog go viral.
about 2 years ago
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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.
about 2 years ago
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Dr. Han VanderHart
about 2 years ago
Preorder Evie Berry’s GRIEF SLUT today! 🌸🌟🌙✨
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This campus mushroom is my white whale.
about 2 years ago
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My partner referred to me as Party Girl Emeritus, and honestly, that’s going in the bio.
about 2 years ago
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Actual text message I just sent: Want to get ceviche at the old strip club in Chapman?
about 2 years ago
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Hexcraft (goth bf era)
about 2 years ago
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Pessimus Prime
over 2 years ago
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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PRINTS FOR PALESTINE
Prints for Palestine is an art auction organized to raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians, an organization directly supporting Palestinian healthcare workers on the ground. All of the works fea...
https://printsforpalestine.com
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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.
over 2 years ago
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Laura Marshall
over 2 years ago
“I am writing to tell you/I’m leaving. My car is tight/as new shoes.” - Ghost||Animal,
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I would really like to see a John Wick style remake of The Lorax.
over 2 years ago
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sarah clark (they)
over 2 years ago
10 days left! The Light Bill Incubator Microgrant will award $500, space in Sundress’ reading series, a 1-week residency in Knoxville, & the potential for digital publication to one Black and/or Indigenous writer w a chapbook in progress to support the completion of said project. Deadline: Oct 31.
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Sundress Publications Open for Microgrant Applications for Black and/or Indigenous Writers - The Sun...
Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from Black and/or Indigenous identifying writers with a chapbook in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our...
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