Today on the site staff member Raquel Desiree DeGrasse interviews Cynthia Marie Hoffman about her Persea Books prose poetry collection Exploding Head, OCD self-discovery and community, and writing to save your life. www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

Head into the weekend by reading Emily Lapomardo’s review of Ellen Samuels' Your Body Should Be a Part of the World! www.nervetowrite.com/post/a-revie...

Love that our first issue is celebrated in @clmporg.bsky.social's April roundup! www.clmp.org/news/april-2...

"The most seen and supported I feel in my bipolarity is in literature." @gabemontesanti.bsky.social @nervetowrite.bsky.social #bipolar #bipolardisorder www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

Today we’re celebrating the release of @gabemontesanti.bsky.social's new @arsenalpulp.bsky.social memoir Drag Thing! Staff member Jackie Martin interviews Gabe about hybridity and writing and illustrating multiplicity, gender performance, and mental health. www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

We’re sending out acceptance emails today! Check your inbox to see if any good news springs up!

Many thanks to Bridgewater State University for featuring our staff and first issue in this article about the work we’re doing to build disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent community! www.bridgew.edu/stories/2026...

Today we’re featuring editor Mialise Carney's interview with @eshanisurya.bsky.social about her new novel Ravishing and writing invisible illness, the beauty industry, and making the familiar strange. www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

Issue One is live and full of nerve! Featuring work by @emmabolden.bsky.social, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social, @williamfargason.bsky.social, @sonyahuber.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social, @gabemontesanti.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social and more! www.nervetowrite.com/issue-1

We’re counting down to Tuesday, March 31st when we launch Issue 1, which features 34 incredible disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers and artists!

Last call for hybrid submissions! Send us your graphic poetry and narrative, comics, erasures, speculative work, and more by April 1!

Meet our spring 2026 editorial staff! Kaitlynn Davis is a neurodivergent and queer writer with a love of all things fierce, feminist, and fantastical. Read more about Kaitlynn and what she’s hoping to find in our submissions!

There are only two weeks left in our spring submission window, so get submit your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrids, and artwork before we close until the fall!

Meet our spring 2026 editorial staff! Jackie Martin is an educator and writer whose work has been published by Jabberwocky, New Pages, Heuer Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Applause Books, YouthPLAYS, and Pioneer Drama. Read more about Jackie and what she’s hoping to find in our submissions!

Nerve to Write is headed to @awpwriter.org! We’ll be at the Disabled & D/deaf Writers Caucus Friday, March 6 @ 5-6:15 Room 307, Level 300 and would love to say hi to our community! Plus, our editors will be handing out N2W temporary tattoos around the bookfair so please say hi and pitch your work!

Meet our spring 2026 editorial staff! Emily Lapomardo is a queer disabled writer and educator who appreciates writing that employs identity as a means of authentic representation rather than a plot device. Read more about Emily and what she’s hoping to find in our submissions!

Our editor-in-chief @sfmontgomery.bsky.social is presenting a Zoom writing workshop on “Discovering Disabled Forms and Structures” on Friday, February 27 from 2-3:30pm EST with The Writing Institute at the University of Pittsburgh! The workshop is free and open to all! Info to register in comments.

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

We're already halfway through our spring submission window! We won't open again until September 1st, so make sure you submit your work now!

Meet our spring 2026 editorial staff! Raquel Desiree DeGrasse is a writer and graduate student from Massachusetts who appreciates work that lets small details carry weight. Read more about Raquel and what she’s hoping to find in our submissions!

Today we’re excited to feature graduate student editor Emily Lapomardo's vital interview with @livmammone.bsky.social about her @gameoverbooks.bsky.social Fire in The Waiting Room! www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

Meet our spring 2026 editorial staff! First up is Cassidy Rousseau, an English educator from the Boston area who looks for evocative images and complex characters. Read more about Cassidy and what she’s hoping to find in our submissions!

We are open for art submissions from disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers until April 1st! Submission guidelines on the N2W site!

Our grad students held the first staff meeting of the semester last night to talk about our inaugural issue and what they are looking for in submissions! Plus, they’ve got interviews, book reviews, and more lined up for this spring. If you haven’t sent in your work, what are you waiting for?

Spend your snow day reading Emily Lapomardo's book review of @travisclau.bsky.social's @smallharborpub.bsky.social What’s Left is Tender! www.nervetowrite.com/post/a-revie...

We are currently reading poetry submissions from disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers! Submission guidelines on the N2W site!

New on the N2W site—editor Mialise Carney reviews Susanne Paola Antonetta’s The Devil’s Castle! www.nervetowrite.com/post/a-revie...

We are currently open for fiction submissions from disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers! We are reading flash fiction, full-length stories, and more until April 1st!

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!

We're counting down to a new year and a new submission window! We reopen for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, and art submissions on January 1st. Visit our website for more submission information.

Editor Mialise Carney kicks off our interview series with an interview with @travisclau.bsky.social about his latest @smallharborpub.bsky.social poetry collection What’s Left is Tender! www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

The first installment of our book review series is live! Read Jackie Martin’s review of @livmammone.bsky.social's @gameoverbooks.bsky.social Fire in the Waiting Room! www.nervetowrite.com/post/fire-in...

Sending out Monday morning acceptances to make things merry and bright!

Our fall submission period is officially closed. Many thanks to everyone who submitted work to our inaugural issue. We’ll reopen January 1st!

Spooky season is the perfect time to submit! We’re open for submissions from disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers until tomorrow!

Our fall submission window has gone so fast it’s scary! This is our last week open for submissions until next year, so get your nonfiction, fiction, poetry hybrid work, and art in by November 1st!

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

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

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

The only thing scarier than spooky season is everyday ableism! Here’s to carving out an inclusive space for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers!

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

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.

Last in our meet the editors series is @froid.bsky.social!

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!

Next up in our meet the editors series is Mialise Carney!

We’re spending the morning reading submissions! Have you sent work in yet?

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

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!