SarahFawn Montgomery

I'm not on here these days, but I wanted to pop in and share my new book Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice! I’m excited to offer this craft book for free in digital and audiobook versions through @SundressPub!

In honor of Disability Pride Month, why not revisit @SF_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_Belladonnas 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-…

For @undersunonline I spoke with @cindysea429 about hybrid forms, writing ’90s girlhood, and the origin stories of several essays in ABBREVIATE. underthesunlitmag.com/abbreviate-cin…

"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." - @SF_Montgomery HM speaks with Sarah Fawn Montgomery about her new collection, Abbreviate @harbor_review hngrmtn.org/articles/sarah…

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

Many thanks to Victoria Lilly and @IndieBookView 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…

"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-…

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

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

For @brevitymag 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 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-…

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 @hippocampusmag 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-…

On our site today, an interview with @SF_Montgomery about craft choices in her essay collection, Abbreviate, out now with @harbor_review: "Genre, like gender, is a construct..." Link in first comment.

Sundress intern Aylli Cortez interviewed Nerve craft chap author @SF_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, 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…

My study of sexism and smallness just got a big recommendation! @KirkusReviews says ABBREVIATE is “Intense, unflinching.”

ABBREVIATE has officially been out for a month! Thanks to everyone who has supported this hybrid study of smallness by reading, requesting from their local library, reviewing on Goodreads and other sites, and sending photos of my small collection out in the big world!

For @CincinnReview I spoke with @LisaAmpleman about how hybridity can deconstruct both genre and gender, playing with point of view, and writing ABBREVIATE! cincinnatireview.com/interviews/int…

I spoke with @SundressPub about rejecting ableist academic and publishing constraints, crip kin, radical rest, and my craft book NERVE. sundressblog.com/2025/06/02/int…