On our site today, an interview with SarahFawn Montgomery about craft choices in her essay collection, Abbreviate, out now with Small Harbor Publishing: "Genre, like gender, is a construct..." Link in first comment.

Sundress intern Aylli Cortez interviewed Nerve craft chap author SarahFawn Montgomery on our blog! sundressblog.com/2025/06/02/int…

I’m absolutely floored by this generous, innovative review of ABBREVIATE by Sumitra Singam in SmokeLong Quarterly, which weaves the reviewer’s life with my words. This kind of close reading and creative collaboration is such a gift for any writer. smokelong.com/dear-sarah-faw…

For Hippocampus Magazine & Books 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/craft-…

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

For Essay Daily I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE. essaydaily.org/2025/06/sarah-…

For Dinty W. Moore 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/sma…

For Laurel Review I spoke with Luke Rolfes about ableist storytelling conventions, how refusing to apologize for disabled identity can influence our practice, and writing my SundressPublications craft book NERVE. laurelreview.org/sarah-fawn-mon…

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

"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 Small to Matter: Using Form and Structure to Create Meaning" hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/craft-…

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/boo…

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

"I learned to shrink, to abbreviate my stories and my life so that I could be a good girl, a good woman who did not claim space." - SarahFawn Montgomery HM speaks with Sarah Fawn Montgomery about her new collection, Abbreviate Small Harbor Publishing hngrmtn.org/articles/sarah…

For Under the Sun online I spoke with Cindy Bradley about hybrid forms, writing ’90s girlhood, and the origin stories of several essays in ABBREVIATE. underthesunlitmag.com/abbreviate-cin…

In honor of Disability Pride Month, why not revisit SarahFawn Montgomery’s article “It Takes Nerve”? We encourage our members and subscribers to read this article and consider steps they can take to develop a more accessible writing workshop. writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-april…

For Disability Pride Month I’ve published my first piece of satire! Many thanks to The Belladonna 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦 for publishing this piece about how often disabled employees are expected to do free labor in order to make companies and colleagues aware that we exist… thebelladonnacomedy.com/you-have-been-…

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!

“This is the story of womanhood, gaslit until we almost believe it ourselves . . . Read this book for catharsis.” Many thanks to Sandra Eliason and Hippocampus Magazine & Books for this wonderful review of ABBREVIATE! hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review…

What a beautiful start to the last week of summer! Endless gratitude to Lara Beth Lillibridge 🌈 and MER - Mom Egg Review for this generous review of ABBREVIATE! merliterary.com/2025/08/25/abb…

Endless gratitude to Ona Gritz and Wordgathering for this review of my SundressPublications craft book NERVE, which so beautifully describes how I hoped to position my writing advice for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers.