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...

For Hunger Mountain I spoke with Juliet Way-Henthorne about girlhood, ghosts, and rebellion in ABBREVIATE. hngrmtn.org/articles/sar...

Many thanks to Victoria Lilly and Independent Book Review for this thoughtful review that describes my hybrid collection ABBREVIATE as “Poetic and impressionistic—a deeply moving coming-of-age story and a powerful critique of American culture.” independentbookreview.com/2025/07/07/b...

"When I decided to write about my girlhood, these stories of smallness were the ones I wanted to share." -- Sarah Fawn Montgomery's CRAFT column "Not Too Smal... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/craft-not-too-small-to-matter-using-form-and-structure-to-create-meaning-by-sarah-fawn-montgomery/

Today marks the start of Disability Pride Month and I’m thrilled my @sundresspub.bsky.social NERVE is included in this @clmporg.bsky.social reading list along with so many disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent favorites!

For Laurel Review I spoke with @lukerolfes.bsky.social about ableist storytelling conventions, how refusing to apologize for disabled identity can influence our practice, and writing my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE. laurelreview.org/sarah-fawn-m...

I read the Conscious Style Guide regularly (thanks @karenyin.bsky.social) It helps me be a clearer & better writer. The latest issue shared "To Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques" by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social A great read. electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...

"Nonfiction allows me to write the truth of my experience in a world that seeks to silence this truth. There is a freedom in the genre that girls and women are not afforded in our current cultural and political climate." ~ @sfmontgomery.bsky.social   brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/s...

For @dintywmoore.bsky.social I spoke with Mialise Carney about using the flash form as reclamation, performance on and off the page, and writing the stories of girls and women in ABBREVIATE during this social and political moment. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/s...

For @essaydaily.bsky.social I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE. www.essaydaily.org/2025/06/sara...

Only a few days left to register for my virtual ABBREVIATE launch reading on June 18 at 6pm ET! Join me on Zoom! Register here: tinyurl.com/5n863svm

For @hippocampusmag.bsky.social I wrote about using themes to guide your form and structure and how feeling small as a girl led me to write ABBREVIATE, a small collection of small essays. hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/craf...

It's here! Just picked up @sfmontgomery.bsky.social's ABBREVIATE (@smallharborpub.bsky.social) from my local indie bookstore. Can't wait to read this collection of flash creative nonfiction.

I’m absolutely floored by this generous, innovative review of ABBREVIATE by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social, which weaves the reviewer’s life with my words. This kind of close reading and creative collaboration is such a gift for any writer. www.smokelong.com/dear-sarah-f...

My study of sexism and smallness just got a big recommendation! Kirkus Reviews says ABBREVIATE is “Intense, unflinching.”

ABBREVIATE has officially been out for a month! Thanks to everyone who has supported this hybrid study of smallness by reading, requesting from their local library, reviewing on Goodreads and other sites, and sending photos of my small collection out in the big world!

For @cincinnatireview.bsky.social I spoke with @lisaampleman.bsky.social about how hybridity can deconstruct both genre and gender, playing with point of view, and writing ABBREVIATE! www.cincinnatireview.com/interviews/i...

Looking forward to celebrating the launch of ABBREVIATE! Join us for a virtual reading on June 18 at 6:00 PM ET! Register via Zoom: tinyurl.com/4dxjte9u

For @sundresspub.bsky.social I spoke with @1159cowboy.bsky.social about rejecting ableist academic and publishing constraints, crip kin, radical rest, and my craft book NERVE. sundressblog.com/2025/06/02/i...