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Today on the site staff member Raquel Desiree DeGrasse interviews Cynthia Marie Hoffman about her Persea Books prose poetry collection Exploding Head, OCD self-discovery and community, and writing to save your life. www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

An Interview with Cynthia Marie Hoffman

Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s Exploding Head is a haunting and intimate collection of prose poetry that explores the boundary between body and mind, memory and perception. Across surreal yet deeply grounded...

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Head into the weekend by reading Emily Lapomardo’s review of Ellen Samuels' Your Body Should Be a Part of the World! www.nervetowrite.com/post/a-revie...

A Review of Ellen Samuels' Your Body Should Be a Part of the World

Ellen Samuels’ new poetry collection, Your Body Should Be a Part of the World, explores themes of chronic illness and the natural world, drifting between and blending the two. The poems weave through ...

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Love that our first issue is celebrated in @clmporg.bsky.social's April roundup! www.clmp.org/news/april-2...

April 2026 Roundup of Member Magazines - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

We’re proud to share this list of literary journals—all members of CLMP—publishing new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and more in April 2026. 34 Orchard | Issue 13 Featuring poetry by Elizabe...

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"The most seen and supported I feel in my bipolarity is in literature." @gabemontesanti.bsky.social @nervetowrite.bsky.social #bipolar #bipolardisorder www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

An Interview with Gabe Montesanti

Gabe Montesanti’s Drag Thing: A Memoir of Mania and Mirrors chronicles the author’s emergence into drag culture and her evolution into an unclassifiable, genderfluid “drag thing.”Through experimentati...

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Today we’re celebrating the release of @gabemontesanti.bsky.social's new @arsenalpulp.bsky.social memoir Drag Thing! Staff member Jackie Martin interviews Gabe about hybridity and writing and illustrating multiplicity, gender performance, and mental health. www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

An Interview with Gabe Montesanti

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We’re sending out acceptance emails today! Check your inbox to see if any good news springs up!

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Many thanks to Bridgewater State University for featuring our staff and first issue in this article about the work we’re doing to build disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent community! www.bridgew.edu/stories/2026...

BSU Graduate Students Gain Hands-on Experience Producing New Magazine

As Kaitlynn Davis, ’24, G’27, prepares for a career in publishing, she is already doing the work as an intern, helping launch a new magazine dedicated to amplifying voices often left out of the litera...

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Today we’re featuring editor Mialise Carney's interview with @eshanisurya.bsky.social about her new novel Ravishing and writing invisible illness, the beauty industry, and making the familiar strange. www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

An Interview with Eshani Surya

Eshani Surya’s debut novel, Ravishing, follows estranged siblings Kashmira and Nikhil as theyfall into the clutches of a dystopian beauty industry after the abandonment of their abusive father.Specula...

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Issue One is live and full of nerve! Featuring work by @emmabolden.bsky.social, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social, @williamfargason.bsky.social, @sonyahuber.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social, @gabemontesanti.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social and more! www.nervetowrite.com/issue-1

Issue 1 | Nerve to Write

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We’re counting down to Tuesday, March 31st when we launch Issue 1, which features 34 incredible disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers and artists!

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Last call for hybrid submissions! Send us your graphic poetry and narrative, comics, erasures, speculative work, and more by April 1!

Meet our spring 2026 editorial staff! Kaitlynn Davis is a neurodivergent and queer writer with a love of all things fierce, feminist, and fantastical. Read more about Kaitlynn and what she’s hoping to find in our submissions!

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A tan background features a red neuron and dark brown text reading, “Kaitlynn primarily indulges in literature that pulls her out of the normal and plunges her into the fantastical, mysterious, and horrific. However, she’s particularly fond of stories that are meaningful and have something to say about our society, culture, or values. She loves all the good things every reader does; Good writing, story craft, and plot beats, but at the heart of every important story is something to be said and she always searches for the meaning behind the veil. All in all, she prizes the humanity of the authors and the dedication to the craft, valuing any effort put towards writing whether successful or not.

There are only two weeks left in our spring submission window, so get submit your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrids, and artwork before we close until the fall!

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Meet our spring 2026 editorial staff! Jackie Martin is an educator and writer whose work has been published by Jabberwocky, New Pages, Heuer Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Applause Books, YouthPLAYS, and Pioneer Drama. Read more about Jackie and what she’s hoping to find in our submissions!

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A tan background features a peach neuron and dark brown text reading, “Jackie enjoys reading across a wide range of genres, hungrily indulging in everything from poetry and plays to novels and nonfiction. She's especially drawn to character-driven stories and writers who surprise her, whether through unexpected plot points or inventive manipulation of language. She loves when she steps away from a story feeling inspired to create.”

Nerve to Write is headed to @awpwriter.org! We’ll be at the Disabled & D/deaf Writers Caucus Friday, March 6 @ 5-6:15 Room 307, Level 300 and would love to say hi to our community! Plus, our editors will be handing out N2W temporary tattoos around the bookfair so please say hi and pitch your work!

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Meet our spring 2026 editorial staff! Emily Lapomardo is a queer disabled writer and educator who appreciates writing that employs identity as a means of authentic representation rather than a plot device. Read more about Emily and what she’s hoping to find in our submissions!

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A tan background features a teal neuron and brown text reading, “Emily loves a wide array of stories and forms when reading. She is drawn to poetry, especially poems that provide new perspectives. Any work that has a turn she didn’t see coming is an immediate favorite, as well as poems with lines so profound they linger in her mind for days. Outside of poetry, she enjoys fantasy novels with rich world-building, or historical fiction novels that expertly blend historical facts with compelling narrative. Regardless of genre, she always appreciates writing that employs identity as a means of authentic representation rather than a plot device.”

Our editor-in-chief @sfmontgomery.bsky.social is presenting a Zoom writing workshop on “Discovering Disabled Forms and Structures” on Friday, February 27 from 2-3:30pm EST with The Writing Institute at the University of Pittsburgh! The workshop is free and open to all! Info to register in comments.

Nerve to Write is open for nonfiction submissions until April 1st! Send us your flash nonfiction, lyric essays, memoir, and more!

We're already halfway through our spring submission window! We won't open again until September 1st, so make sure you submit your work now!

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