I’m headed to AWP for the first time since my spinal injuries! I’ve got a few readings and book signings scheduled, but I’m looking to add a few more things to my Baltimore dance card so please reach out if you want to collaborate. And let me know if you’re up for a meal, a hug, or a catch-up!

Calling all disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent poets!

INCOMING!!! Extremely rare opportunity that hasn't come up in YEARS: on Jan 8, we'll be opening for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our Novel/Novella Book Editor! Our beloved Kate Finegan is stepping down this year from her position (which she initiated for us in 2020!).

Celebrating late into the night hasn't stopped people from submitting on the first day of our spring submission window! We are officially open for submissions, so disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, we hope you send work our way!

Halfway through the year, my partner and I decided to start a friendly competition to see how many novels we could read in 2025. I'm happy to report I lost this challenge because I only read 134 books this year while my partner read 151. Best contest I ever lost!

My favorite holiday gift is eating warm pie and cold brussel sprouts for breakfast every day until next year!

Thrilled ABBREVIATE has been included on another Best of 2025 book list! Many thanks to CLMP! www.clmp.org/news/clmp-me...

I'm heading into the holidays with these glittering reminders of a creative year of abundance publishing two books and launching @nervetowrite.bsky.social!

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Many thanks to @dintywmoore.bsky.social for nominating my essay “Mystery House” (which also appears in my new flash collection ABBREVIATE) for a Pushcart Prize! brevitymag.com/nonfiction/m...

What a week! ABBREVIATE also made The Independent Book Review’s The Best Books We Read in 2025 list! independentbookreview.com/2025/12/03/t...

ICYMI, contributor @sfmontgomery.bsky.social's new chapbook ✨ NERVE: UNLEARNING WORKSHOP ABLEISM TO DEVELOP YOUR DISABLED WRITING PRACTICE ✨ is already out from @sundresspub.bsky.social 🥳 Get your copy here: buff.ly/C7Q2lhl

Join me and The Creative Writing Studies organization on Tuesday, December 2 at 7pm EST for a virtual talk and Q&A about my @sundresspub.bsky.social NERVE and ways we can create and sustain more inclusive workshop spaces! Link to register in comments.

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

Final few hours to get your nonfiction book submitted to @athenadixon.bsky.social and the crew! After 11:59pm CT, you'll have to wait until NEXT YEAR!!! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

It’s an absolute honor to have ABBREVIATE kick off @literaryhub.bsky.social's notable small press books of 2025 list! Tremendous gratitude to Ash Trebisacci for spending time with my collection and to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for championing this project! lithub.com/100-notable-...

Grateful for my very good boy whose enthusiastic joy reminds me every day that there is wonder all around.

Join me and The Creative Writing Studies organization on Tuesday, December 2 at 7pm EST for a virtual talk and Q&A about my @sundresspub.bsky.social NERVE and ways we can create and sustain more inclusive workshop spaces! Link to register in comments.

My very good boy knows over 50 tricks, but the power of disguise might be his best. Where’s Clancy?

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

Nerve to Write is open for art submissions until November 1st!

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. diodepoetry.com/montgomery_s...

Nerve to Write is open for hybrid submissions until November 1st! Send us your graphic poetry and narrative, comics, erasures, speculative work, and more!

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. riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

“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. www.newpages.com/blog/books/b...

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

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...

Nerve to Write is open for fiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash fiction, full-length stories, and more!

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.

Many thanks to @nataliesolmer.bsky.social and Indianapolis Review for nominating one of my chronic pain poems for Best of the Net!

Nerve to Write is open for nonfiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash nonfiction, lyric essays, memoir, and more!

We’re halfway through our submission window! You have until November 1st to submit your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid writing, and artwork.

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.

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!

Our first acceptances started going out this week! Disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, we'd love to read your work!

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be introducing you to our editors! First is founder and editor-in-chief @sfmontgomery.bsky.social.

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)!

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

"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. fourthgenre.org/interview/es...

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.

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

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!

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! merliterary.com/2025/08/25/a...

“This is the story of womanhood, gaslit until we almost believe it ourselves . . . Read this book for catharsis.” Many thanks to Sandra Eliason and @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for this wonderful review of ABBREVIATE! hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/revi...

My graduate poetry workshop students will be writing and submitting book reviews this fall! If you have a recent/forthcoming poetry collection or chapbook—especially a debut—you’d like them to consider, please let me know!

@sfmontgomery.bsky.social Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sarahfawnmontgomery with a poem about chronic pain in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/chronic-pain... #poetry #chronicpain #poem #poetryjournal

“It has been brought to our attention that you are a person with disabilities (or is it a disabled person?).” By @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/you-have-bee...

For Disability Pride Month I’ve published my first piece of satire! Thanks to @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social for publishing this piece about how often disabled employees are expected to do free labor to make companies and colleagues aware that we exist… thebelladonnacomedy.com/you-have-bee...

New on our new website: @sfmontgomery.bsky.social in conversation with @cindybradleywriter.bsky.social discussing all things ABBREVIATE: what it means growing up female and feeling small, those troublesome middle school years, Dungeons & Dragons, and so much more. Link in comments.

For @underthesunonline.bsky.social I spoke with @cindybradleywriter.bsky.social about hybrid forms, writing ’90s girlhood, and the origin stories of several essays in ABBREVIATE! underthesunlitmag.com/abbreviate-c...