Sundress Publications
Nonprofit literary press & writers residency. Also Best of the Net, Poets in Pajamas, and more. www.sundresspublications.com
- 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! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-ma…
- 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! sundressblog.com/2026/01/26/meet-our…
- "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. sundressblog.com/2026/02/02/intervie…
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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...
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- 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...
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- TODAY is the FINAL DAY to pre-order SG Huerta's debut full-length collection, Burns! sundress-publications.square.site/product/burn...
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- 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...
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- 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.
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- Meet our intern Emma Goss and learn how her love of books began by being able to choose her own reads in elementary school. sundressblog.com/2025/12/29/m...
- The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present Poetry Xfit hosted by Alexa White. This generative workshop event will take place on Sunday, December 28th, from 2 to 4 pm EST. sundressblog.com/2025/11/20/s...
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- Very excited to read Soulmate as a Verb, the forthcoming debut collection from our Associate Managing Editor, Kelsey L. Smoot! Pre-order your copy now from MIT Press! mitpress.mit.edu/978163590282...
- Here, the familiar and the foreign cannot be clearly delineated, and attempts to escape one’s history lead to seeing it in new forms. sundress-publications.square.site/product/tale...
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- Sara Lieto (they/them) is a poet and MFA candidate at University of Maryland where their work was awarded the 2025 Academy of American Poets Prize. Most recently, their poems have appeared in Wax Nine Journal and Struggle Magazine. They live in the DMV area with their two cats.
- Sundress Publications is thrilled to announce that Christian Yeo‘s chapbook, So Rain, was selected by Joshua Nguyen as the winner of our annual e-chapbook contest. Find out of full list of winners and finalists here! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/12...
- In this week's #Sundress Reads, Emma Goss reads and reviews Ellen Austin-Li's latest poetry collection, Incidental Pollen, available now from Madville Publishing! sundressblog.com/2025/12/15/s...
- Alaska native and Sundress intern Ana Mourant's immersive reading list comes complete with tea and location recommendations for each book. Choose your ambiance from this thoughtfully curated Project Bookshelf on our blog. sundressblog.com/2025/07/10/p...
- Sundress Publications is open for submissions for microgrant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. Projects of all genres are welcome. Visit our website to learn more and apply by December 31, 2025. www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/09...
- Have you had a book published in the past two years? Consider submitting to The Wardrobe! The Wardrobe’s “Best Dressed” features work from recent books of any genre written by women, nonbinary, and genderqueer writers. sundressblog.com/the-wardrobe/
