SG Huerta spoke with Sundress intern Emma Goss about their upcoming debut poetry collection, Burns, discussing how they push the limits of English and Spanish in their poems, and what decolonialism means to them. https://sundressblog.com/2026/02/06/interview-with-sg-huerta-author-of-burns/

"In its explorations of empire, the sonnet, death of a father, transition, & abuse, we see a life well lived & dissected in lines, an ode to the fact that, as Huerta says, 'I didn't decide to be a poet. I have a condition.'" –KB Brookins sundress-publications.square.site/product/burn...

"Positioning the adoptee condition as that of a wild dog, Janae resists the confines of the cage and chronicles the path toward forgiveness—of the self and of one’s various mothers, in their presence and absence." —Tiana Nobile sundress-publications.square.site/product/houn...

Tara Rahman has a BA in English from Smith College and an MSc in Global Development from SOAS, University of London. She is a recent graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course in Oxford, UK. Her writing focuses on intersectionality in marginalized communities.

“Abdulrazaq strikes a balance in harmonizing what love, loss, dreams, & realities would look like in different dimensions of the quantum realm. The blend of religion and science offers a stark reality where every possibility exist at once.” —Fatima Salihu www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/quan...

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

Was so elated when Jan agreed to blurb my book.

Ruoyu Wang is a writer from Seattle. Their poems appear in Sine Theta Magazine, COUNTERCLOCK, and The Shore, and have been recognized by YoungArts, The Adroit Journal, and Narrative Magazine, among others.

In this installment of #SundressReads, Joseph Norris reads and reviews Emilio Carrero’s poetry collection, Autobiography of the [Undead], available now from Calamari Press! https://sundressblog.com/2026/02/01/sundress-reads-review-of-autobiography-of-the-undead/

Looking for a wheelchair-accessible residency in the Southeast? Our team has researched a number of them to create a new list to share with you! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-maQAMhXSukZ3Upn7idi4evvNEn7Wbi8fPZfzgS8MBo/edit?usp=sharing

Find out how visiting libraries as a child helped fuel intern Nafisa Hussain's lifelong love of literature. Check out her introductory blog post at the link below! https://sundressblog.com/2026/01/26/meet-our-new-intern-nafisa-hussain/

"With each stop, we’re invited inside—to smell the sinigang, hear the music of Tagalog, and step into rooms where faith, grief, and pop culture congregate." —John McNally sundress-publications.square.site/product/tale...

Abdulrazaq Salihu spoke about science and spirituality in his forthcoming e-chapbook, Quantum Entanglements with Notes on Loss, in an interview on our blog. https://sundressblog.com/2026/02/02/interview-with-abdulrazaq-salihu-author-of-iquantum-entanglements-with-notes-on-lossi-sd/

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"These inventive, image-rich poems dive deep into the brutality of adoption where grief has a real face and birthmothers have none, where the 'real' remains elusive, nameless." —Jan Beatty sundress-publications.square.site/product/houn...

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. Participants can access the event virtually with the password: SAFTA.

Franchesca Nicole Lazaro is an emerging editor based in Seattle, Washington, who focuses on literary fiction, memoir, and nonfiction exploring history, technology, media studies, feminism, and literature and perspectives from women, asexual voices, and religious backgrounds.

Thanks to CLMP for including Matthew E. Henry and Michelle Whittaker on their reading list for Black History Month among so many other amazing writers! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

TODAY is the FINAL DAY to apply for Summer 2026 residencies! This summer we have fellowships for writers of color and trans writers through the Smokelong Quarterly fellowship! Scholarships are also available! www.sundresspublications.com/safta/reside...

In this installment of #SundressReads, Elizabeth “Lizzy” DiGrande reads and reviews Brittany Micka-Foos’s debut short story collection, It’s No Fun Anymore, available now from Apprentice House Press! sundressblog.com/2026/01/26/s...

Reina Maiden-Navarro is an editor, writer, and photographer. She recently graduated from UC Irvine with a degree in Film & Media Studies and a minor in Creative Writing, cum laude. She also works as an Editor at Prompt and an Outreach Coordinator at Bookstr.

In poems that capture the complexity of life as a transitioning Xicanx in a tumultuous Texas climate, SG Huerta’s Burns balances the intrinsically human need for connection with the struggle to love oneself. sundress-publications.square.site/product/burn...

Applications are due THIS SUNDAY for Summer 2026 residencies! This summer we have fellowships for writers of color and trans writers through the Smokelong Quarterly fellowship! Scholarships are also available! www.sundresspublications.com/safta/reside...

Brianna “Bree” Eaton (she/her) is a sophomore studying English with a concentration in Publishing and Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee, where she also serves on the Phoenix Magazine Staff. Born and raised in East Tennessee, she enjoys all things neo-appalachian, cryptic, & feminist.

New work from Sundress authors and editors in the debut issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social!

"This book is all of the things I love in one: honest about the mess of living, dexterous like any book of poems should be. I read & reread to be reminded of what matters: these words, this earth, our recollection of it." –KB Brookins sundress-publications.square.site/product/burn...

Patrick Joseph Caoile spoke about the importance of food, play as a way to navigate migration and displacement, and living on Manila Ave. (and places like it) with intern Penny Wei. Read the full interview at the link below! sundressblog.com/2026/01/02/i...

Abigail Palmer (she/her) is a current English student at the University of Tennessee. Born in the north but raised in the south, she has always had a place in the in-between of things.

Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length prose manuscripts in all genres. All authors are welcome to submit manuscripts during our reading period! Submissions are free for writers of color and those who purchase a book! www.sundresspublications.com/submit#prose

"Dani Janae’s Hound Triptych is ravenous with desire. Through rich, evocative lyric, Janae deftly navigates the treacherous terrain of adoptee loss and longing." —Tiana Nobile sundress-publications.square.site/product/houn...

“Abdulrazaq writes at the same time like a timeless sage and a new-age superstar.” —Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/quan...

In this week's #SundressReads, Penny Wei reads and reviews Tate Lewis-Carroll's haiku collection Blind to the Prairie, available now from Bottlecap Press! sundressblog.com/2026/01/18/s...

who’s that? she’s so pretty and i bet her book is really good! 😌

Applications are due on 2/1 for Summer 2026 residencies! This summer we have fellowships for writers of color and trans writers through the Smokelong Quarterly fellowship! Scholarships are also available! www.sundresspublications.com/safta/reside...

Pre-orders are now available for Hound Triptych, the debut full-length collection of poetry from Dani Janae! Reserve your copy now and save $6 off the retail price! sundress-publications.square.site/product/houn...

Pre-orders are now available for Jaye Nasir's award-winning broadside, "Palestine is a Place." All proceeds from this year's broadside will go to support our fellowship for Palestinian diaspora writers! sundress-publications.square.site/product/-pal...

TODAY is the FINAL DAY to pre-order SG Huerta's debut full-length collection, Burns! sundress-publications.square.site/product/burn...

particularly interested in hearing from more transfemme poets and writers!

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present Poetry Xfit hosted by Alexa White. This free generative workshop event will take place online on Sunday, January 25th, from 2 to 4 pm EST. sundressblog.com/2026/01/02/s...

"Burns might be the most tender manifesto I’ve ever encountered." –Cecily Parks sundress-publications.square.site/product/burn...

In this week's #SundressReads, Marian Kohng reads and reviews Child of Light, the newest novel by by Jesi Bender, available now from Whisk(e)y Tit! sundressblog.com/2026/01/05/s...

breaking my internet hiatus to share that my debut poetry collection BURNS is available to preorder from @sundresspub.bsky.social ❤️ sundress-publications.square.site/product/burn...

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present “REVOLT!: Past as Prologue,” a free virtual workshop led by Henry Hicks IV on Wednesday, January 14th from 6:00-7:30 PM EST. sundressblog.com/2026/01/02/s...

"SG Huerta's Burns is so Texas like 'oil to pay for college wind power,' so Xicanx like 'if we make / ourselves laugh we'll remember / we don't need them to,' so trans like 'It is hard to revise when I can't promise myself / tomorrow.'" –KB Brookins sundress-publications.square.site/product/burn...

Applications are due on 2/1 for Summer 2026 residencies! This summer we have fellowships for writers of color and trans writers through the Smokelong Quarterly fellowship! Scholarships are also available! www.sundresspublications.com/safta/reside...

In this week's #SundressReads, Tassneem Abdulwahab M.S. Gardner’s novella Wolf’s Bane, available now from April Gloaming! sundressblog.com/2026/01/02/s...

A big thanks to CLMP for including Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature and the Silences Around Us on this year's Most Celebrated Books of 2025! www.clmp.org/news/clmp-me...

Don't miss Sundress authors jason b. crawford and Ching-In Chen at Poets House 30th Showcase Reading on January 15th in NYC! poetshouse.org/event/30th-s...

Meg Kim is a writer from Southern Oregon currently based in Chicago and the author of the chapbook Invisible Cartographies (New Delta Review 2024). Her poems have appeared in Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, among others. They hold an MFA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin.