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September 29, 2022September 19, 2023 - Awards, Fiction, News, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Announcing Big Other’s Best of the Net 2022 Nominations!

We are pleased to nominate the following comics, fictions, nonfictions, and poems for inclusion in Sundress Publications‘s Best of the…

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September 28, 2022October 22, 2025 - Archives, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Eight Poems, by Rae Armantrout

Attempts It’s a lawn ornament pig, made of an oil drum, pipes for legs, and a watering can lid for…

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September 25, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

William Faulkner on Writing, Art, Life, Time, and More

  Happy birthday, William Faulkner! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good…

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September 17, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

William Carlos Williams on Language, Writing, Reading, Poetry, and More

  Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams! Here are some quotes from the Puerto Rican writer:   “beauty is a defiance…

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September 10, 2022August 29, 2023 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Three Cities, by Dawn Raffel

Happy birthday, Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading these Raffel fictions we published in 2020! It was subsequently selected for inclusion…

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September 8, 2022October 22, 2025 - Archives, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

The Coal of St. Lawrence, by Debra Di Blasi

The martyrdom story of Saint Lawrence (who gave away the Church’s riches to the poor) may have originated from a…

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September 4, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Richard Wright on Life, Writing, Literature, and More

  Happy birthday, Richard Wright! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “All literature is protest.”   “The artist…

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September 4, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Theater, Writing

Antonin Artaud on Poetry, Theater, Madness, and More

  Happy birthday, Antonin Artaud! Here some quotes from the playwright, poet, actor, and director’s writings:   “No one has…

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September 1, 2022August 29, 2023 - Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: The Road Is a Shot Glass Half-Full, by Grace Campbell

Happy birthday, Grace Campbell! Read this Campbell nonfiction we published in 2019!   Windows lap up the rust belt, entire…

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