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Nonprofit literary press & writers residency. Also Best of the Net, Poets in Pajamas, and more. www.sundresspublications.com
Being here for the duration & doing the dishes. Altar rails & touching up mullets. Disastrous atrophy & boba tea. Setting our fields ablaze. beestung #25 is here w/ Dylan McNulty-Holmes, Willow Sipling, Izzy Peroni, Helen Robertson, Yufan Lu, michal "mj" jones, & more! www.beestungmag.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The Sundress Academy for the Arts has extended the deadline for editorial internship applications through December 2nd! This part-time internship would consist of approximately 5-10 hours of work per week and run from January 1st to July 5th, 2026. www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#sa...
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Eartha Davis is a woman of Ngāpuhi & Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri land. She is the winner of the AAWP/Express Media Sudden Writing Prize and a 2025 Varuna Residency Fellow.
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present Poetry Xfit hosted by Brynn Martin. This generative workshop event will take place on Sunday, November 30th, from 2 to 4 pm EST. Join us virtually with the password “safta”. sundressblog.com/2025/10/28/s...
Sundress Academy for the Arts Presents November Poetry Xfit - The Sundress Blog
The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present Poetry Xfit hosted by Brynn Martin. This generative workshop event will take place on Sunday, November 30th, from 2 to 4 pm EST via Zoom. Join u...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Check out these upcoming winter readings for Donna Vorreyer's collection Unrivered! #sundresspublications #poetry #poetryreadings #poetryevents
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In this week's #SundressReads, Marian Kohng reads and reviews Jennifer Dupree's novel, What Do You Want From Me?, available now from Apprentice House Press! sundressblog.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sundress Reads: Review of What Do You Want From Me? - The Sundress Blog
What Do You Want From Me? (Apprentice House Press, 2025) by Jennifer Dupree is a poignant and heartwarming story that explores complex family dynamics, trauma, trust, forgiveness, and love. We follow ...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In a review for RHINO, Amanda Auchter calls Donna Vorreyer's collection Unrivered, "a fierce, luminous meditation on the shifting terrain of aging, faith, loss, and the quiet defiance needed to remain whole amid unraveling." Read the full commentary at the link below. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/donn...
REVIEWS — RHINO — Unrivered by Donna Vorreyer - Reviewed by Amanda Auchter
by Donna Vorreyer Reviewed by Amanda Auchter the myth that age must mean diminishment
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November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Being here for the duration & doing the dishes. Altar rails & touching up mullets. Disastrous atrophy & boba tea. Setting our fields ablaze.

beestung #25 is here!

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November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
SAFTA is seeking editorial interns for Spring 2026! The position’s responsibilities include the preparation of documents necessary to run a writer’s residency as well as online participation in literary events including readings and workshops. www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#sa...
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We are hiring now for our spring internships! These remote, volunteer positions offer hands-on experience with editing, writing, and contributing to the social media of a nationally recognized independent literary press. Applications are due 11/21/2025!
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November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are so excited to welcome Paige Quiñones to our Reader Board! Paige Quiñones is the author of THE BEST PREY (Pleiades Press 2021), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry.
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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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.
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"I feel like an intruder in these poems, poems in which the speaker considers the aging body, how it’s constantly poked and prodded both literally and figuratively, how it can never escape critique, even self-criticism." —Taylor Byas sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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yo @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social thank you for curating these picks for @sundresspub.bsky.social. this is weeks late but I'm cleaning out my inbox and got to read this poem by mandy shunnarah that I think I would have missed otherwise so THANK U
November 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The fall issue of Stirring is the annual anniversary issue. Stirring has been continuously publishing online since 1999. Thank you to readers like you for keeping this, entirely volunteer-operated ship sailing the world wide internet seas. www.stirringlit.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Mona Susan Power’s THE STRUCTURE OF LOVE: ANATOMY OF A NOVEL is on our reading list for #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth!

This @sundresspub.bsky.social craft chapbook features Power’s essay on the craft of writing a novel: www.sundresspublications.com/craft-chaps/
Craft Chaps - Sundress Publications
Craft Chaps offers substantive essays by contemporary writers on creative writing practice. Each chap focuses on one aspect of craft and also contains a writing exercise and bibliography for further…
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November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A blazer, a freckle, and a cherry pit….Rogue Agent 128 is here! Featuring poetry by Emily R. Daniel, Haley DiRenzo, Heather Emmanuel, Loria Harris, Nadeen Murhaf Maida, Chenxi Meng, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Lee Potts, Sonya Schneider, and more! www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue128
Issue 128 — RogueAgent
Welcome!
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November 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Friends, the window to submit your books for the 2026 Lambda Literary Awards is closing... There's one week! Submissions close on November 21! Submit here: lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammy... 📚✨ #LammyAwards #Lammys2026
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In this week's #SundressReads, Hannah Yerington reads and reviews Aiyana Masla's debut poetry collection, The Underdream, available now from Cornerstone Press! sundressblog.com/2025/11/09/s...
Sundress Reads: Review of The Underdream - The Sundress Blog
Aiyana Masla wrote her first full-length poetry collection, The Underdream (Conerstone Press, 2025), during and after her struggle with Tuberculosis, to which she almost lost her life. The Underdream ...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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We are so excited to announce our @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net nominees! Help us celebrate our fiction, nonfiction, and arts & comics contributors by reading/viewing their works in Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring! Congrats to all!
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Last call!
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Apply now to join us as the editorial intern from January to July 2026! This position offers hands-on experience with editing, writing, and contributing to the social media of a nationally recognized independent literary press. Applications are due 11/21/2025!
www.sundresspublications.com/openings/
November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Saturday is now the day after tomorrow #TheMikey
#TheMikey deadline is this Saturday Nov. 15, midnight NYC. However you count the days (you can see how bad we are at it), you can't choose your own ending for this, sadly, but you CAN choose to send us your 250-word story—top prizes $1,000/$500/$300; finalists $100; all published in December's SLQ.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM