Sundress Publications Announces
2018 Open Reading Period Results
Sundress Publications is thrilled to announce the results of the 2018 Open Reading Period. The winning selections are: Albert Abonado’s JAW, Chera Hammons’ Map of Injury, and JM Miller’s Nightsong. Each is slated for publication in 2020.
Albert Abonado’s poems have appeared in Boston Review, Pleiades, The Margins, Zone 3, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and has received a fellowship for poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Every Thursday from 2-3PM, he hosts the poetry radio show Flour City Yawp on WAYO 104.3 FM-LP. He also curates the CityVerse column for City Newspaper. He teaches creative writing at SUNY Geneseo. He lives in Rochester with his wife.
Chera Hammons is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Goddard 
College in Plainfield, VT. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Connotation Press, Rattle, Sugar House Review, Tar River Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, and Valparaiso Poetry Review, among other fine journals. Her chapbook Amaranthine Hour received the 2012 Jacar Press Chapbook Award. Books include Recycled Explosions (Ink Brush Press, 2016) and The Traveler’s Guide to Bomb City (Purple Flag Press, 2017; winner of the 2017 PEN Southwest Book Award).
JM Miller is a queer/trans writer based in Seattle. Their first poetry collection, Wilderness Lessons, was described as a love letter to the earth. JM teaches creative writing at the University of Washington Tacoma and has recently adopted a kitten named Cielo. Please visit jm-poet.com for more.
Finalists include:
Kara Dorris, A Phobia of Dying if Motion Stops
Jonathan Duckworth, Night, Translated
Amanda Galvan Huynh, Mexican Bingo
Stephanie Lane Sutton, Femme Pastiche
Billie Tadros, Was Body
Billie Tadros, Graft Fixation
Semi-Finalists include:
Danielle Badra, Like Still We Speak
Reese Conner, The Body He Left Behind
Megan Merchant, Paper Mother
Jed Meyers, Burning Man
Laura Passin, You are Not God’s Sparrow
C. Pope, Forgotten Stages of Grief
Shannon Sankey, A Crooked Kind of Flowering
Marvin Shackleford, Monstrous
Sarah Wolfson, A Common Name for Everything
Sundress Publications is a 501(c)3 non-profit literary press collective founded in 2000. It is an entirely volunteer-run, non-discriminatory publishing group focused on the creativity of all artists, regardless of race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, education, etc.
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