Today I’m thrilled to share an excerpt from FATHOM, my forthcoming poetry collection on invisible disability and drowning in chronic pain! Many thanks to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social and @identitytheory.bsky.social for publishing a piece so close to my heart. www.identitytheory.com/after-the-di...

Join us and Sarah Fawn Montgomery on September 12 for the webinar/workshop "Discovering Disabled Forms and Structures"! www.smokelong.com/product/disc...

Discovering Disabled Forms and Structures with Sarah Fawn Montgomery - SmokeLong Quarterly

The writing workshop is a space where power and privilege often demand disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers translate our lived experiences for abled audiences in order to be valued. ...

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Fathom, my forthcoming poetry collection about chronic pain, invisible disability, and drowning in sea of misdiagnosis and medical sexism warranted a new author photo! Many thanks to my love for taking this gorgeous photo during our seaside sunrise walk yesterday.

Today in @tahomareview.bsky.social I’ve got an essay about encountering a weasel in my garden, rethinking Annie Dillard’s “Living Like Weasels” in today’s climate, living with disability, and the importance of embracing your purpose to find your power. tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/s...

Seasons of the Wild - Tahoma Literary Review

I’m in the garden when the scream rings out. Surrounded by beauty and bumblebees sipping at the roses and the salvia, I’m at peace despite the chaotic

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery will be joining us on September 12th at 10am ET to lead the 90-minute online workshop "Discovering Disabled Forms and Structures," and you can come even if you're not in SmokeLong Fitness. www.smokelong.com/september-on...

I’m partnering up with @smokelong.bsky.social on Saturday, September 12 at 10 am ET for an online workshop on discovering disabled forms and structures! We’ll discuss the ableist writing workshop and ways disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent experiences can guide our writing.

Tonight’s the night! Tune in for “We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space” with authors @mailbykite.bsky.social, Emily Rapp Black, and Rob Macaisa Colgate, moderated by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social, at 7:00 p.m. ET on YouTube. See you in the audience!

We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space

Join The Writer’s Desk for a special virtual event to commemorate Disability Pride Month! “We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space” premieres on Thursday, July 23, 2026, with authors…

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For Disability Pride Month I partnered with @awpwriter.org @mailbykite.bsky.social, Rob Macaisa Colgate, and Emily Rapp Black for a free virtual talk! The conversation airs on YouTube on Thurs, July 23 at 7:00 pm ET and we hope you'll join us in crip community! www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine...

We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space

Join The Writer’s Desk for a special virtual event to commemorate Disability Pride Month! “We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space” premieres on July 23 with authors Khairani Barokka, Emi...

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The first issue of @nervetowrite.bsky.social was featured in @clmporg.bsky.social's Disability Pride Reading List! I’m thrilled to have our inaugural issue recognized and to have an interview about our mission featured this month! www.clmp.org/news/member-...

Member Spotlight: Nerve to Write - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

We spoke with Sarah Fawn Montgomery, editor in chief of Nerve to Write, in our latest member spotlight.   What is the history behind Nerve to Write? When was it founded and what is its mission? Nerve ...

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Love seeing my @ohiostatepress.bsky.social QUITE MAD on @awpwriter.org's Disability Pride Month Reading list along with so many favorites! Check these out, along with a great list of disability content from the Writer’s Chronicle, including one of mine about unlearning the ableist writing workshop!

AWP@awpwriter.org · 3mo ago

July is Disability Pride Month! Join AWP in supporting disabled writers and learning more about the history of disability activism. Our latest Writer’s News has a staff-curated reading list, past AWP panels, resources, and upcoming online events.

Many thanks to @cavar.bsky.social for interviewing me for @anmlymag.bsky.social about founding @nervetowrite.bsky.social, sustaining disabled literary community, and the importance of disabled rage. medium.com/anomalyblog/...

dis/connect: Sustaining Disabled Creativity: An Interview with Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Nerve to…

I feel like it’s common to begin these types of interviews with a question on origin. I’d prefer to begin with one of genealogy. When…

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"We don’t talk about the missing girl. Our high school math teacher tells us about algebra, the unifying thread of most mathematics." If you need a powerful essay, Contributor @sfmontgomery.bsky.social's HANDPRINTS is in the @cincinnatireview.bsky.social. Have a read 💕 buff.ly/nfnsIwY

“We are used to being invisible in math classes. As early as elementary school, mathematics erased us, all the problems about trains or trucks, billiards or bowling, boys named Bobby and Dave..." @sfmontgomery.bsky.social's essay "Handprints," is our special web feature this week! Link in thread.

I have a vulnerable new essay up today in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social that hits very close to home and braids several unexpected threads including university rape culture, the local true crime that haunted my girlhood, public art, and algebra. www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/han...

Handprints - The Cincinnati Review

Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen: What I admire most about this essay is the author’s courage in confronting a subject that is both deeply

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“While there is no shortage of the number of literary magazine startups, the distinction with Nerve to Write is the essential nature of its existence.” Many thanks to @newpages.bsky.social for interviewing me about launching @nervetowrite.bsky.social! www.newpages.com/blog/magazin...

New Lit on the Block :: Nerve to Write

Nerve to Write is an inclusive literary magazine amplifying disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent voices.

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For the first day of Pride month @rowanglassworks.bsky.social reviewed my collection of queer girlhood essays ABBREVIATE! "Abbreviate is not merely a collection of essays; it is an act of reclamation." www.rowanglassworks.org/book-reviews...

Review: Abbreviate

The Strength in Womanhood Review : Abbreviate by Erica Rose ​ Sarah Fawn Montgomery Essays Small Harbor Publishing pp. 82  Cost: $18.00 ​

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"When the pain is persistent enough, you unzip your body and step out of your skin. Doctors cry No while backing away from what is raw. But you are tired of carrying their recommendations—" —Sarah Fawn Montgomery anmly.org/ap42/sarah-f...

Being a writer in any genre requires haunting your own life. I’m very grateful to Allison Joseph and Crab Orchard Review for publishing my poem about nostalgia and regret, and the spectral risk of digging though memory to tell a story.

I’m so grateful to announce that my debut poetry collection Fathom will be published next year as part of the Propel Disability Poetry series! This collection explores what it means to live in chronic pain, drowning in a sea of misdiagnosis and shipwrecked by medical sexism.

Abbreviate was published one year ago today! I’m endlessly grateful for all the support this small collection of small essays has received since it launched into the big wide world!

"When the pain is persistent enough, you unzip your body and step out of your skin. Doctors cry No while backing away from what is raw." This micro from @sfmontgomery.bsky.social in @anmlymag.bsky.social is amazing! anmly.org/ap42/sarah-f...

Joyous news bloomed in my inbox today! I can’t announce just yet, but beautiful things are growing here!

It costs professors so little to offer students grace. And it costs students so much to have grace denied.

Unpacking the trauma of chronic pain and everyday ableism is incredibly difficult. Many thanks to @sarahclark.bsky.social, Jess Silfa, and @anmlymag.bsky.social for publishing this micro about escaping the body and the cruelty of an ableist world. anmly.org/ap42/sarah-f...

Since my autism is invisible, I experience ableist microaggressions most days for failing to meet neurotypical standards. I’m grateful to publish poems a/b the painful reality of autistic masking, as well as the anti-autism rhetoric that plagues academia. heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/04/14/m...

Two Original Poems: Sarah Fawn Montgomery

This Autistic Puts on Her Mask Because the world wantsa woman smiling louder than her voice, scripts rehearsedbecause the only answer to How are you? is Finewhich is a lie like making eye contact w…

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Gorgeous story from Sarah Fawn Montgomery ( @sfmontgomery.bsky.social). So honored that she sent in a piece for us! If you don't know, Sarah Fawn is an excellent and celebrated cnf writer, so I was really happy to read some of her fiction!

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This week's story is "Drown" by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social, selected by guest editor @demisty.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/stories/drown/

I have new flash fiction out in @necessaryfiction.com today! Many thanks to @demisty.bsky.social for publishing this piece about the cruelty of girlhood and drowning in poverty. necessaryfiction.com/stories/drown/

A few years ago, I was sent to a hip specialist for an MRI referral. He said I was fine compared to the sports injuries he usually treated and denied it. Eventually I received the imaging and discovered I need a hip replacement. Thanks to Grist for publishing my revenge poem about medical sexism!

The first issue of @nervetowrite.bsky.social is out today and I’m overwhelmed with joy! This magazine has been such a labor of disabled love and collective care.

Nerve to Write@nervetowrite.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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

Beautiful new essay by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social in CRAFT literary journal today. Check out her author's note on representing trauma in the collage form too! www.craftliterary.com/2026/03/18/e...

Empty Nest by Sarah Fawn Montgomery - CRAFT

My youngest brother runs away from home again the morning the baby robins fly from the nest. All spring, I watch a mother robin build her nest under my deck. It rests next to the half-dozen hollowed-o...

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