Sundress Academy for the Arts

05/29/2026

Lizzy Burnam (she/her) is a writer, artist & mischief-monger currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her poems & articles have appeared in publications like The Raven Chronicles Journal, The Coffin Bell Journal, Introvert Dear, and more. She believes in whimsy, nonsense, love, hope, and revelry. Connect with her on Instagram/Substack .

05/28/2026

Utilizing the forms of writing, mixed media sculpture, dance, and experimental hardcore vocalizations, Two Spirit artist Chloe Sky Dittloff (also known by their Amskapi Pikuni name ‘Iiniipissiskitsaakii’) explores Indigenous grief through the theology of Blackfeet storytelling and intergenerational ritualism. Central to their work is the poetics of play as a liberatory collective act. Play informed by ancestral practices of transmuting trauma into magic - and magic into life sustaining meaning. When not writing they can be found laughing with their head thrown back.

05/27/2026

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present Poetry Xfit hosted by Layla Lenhardt. This event will take place on Sunday, May 31st, from 2 to 4 pm EST via Zoom. Find out more at https://sundressblog.com/2026/04/28/sundress-academy-for-the-arts-presents-may-poetry-xfit-4/

05/26/2026

Molly Hoyer is a writer/translator and farmer from northwest New Jersey. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Wellesley College and recently graduated with a MA in French Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Between her degrees, she spent six years at Blair Academy as an English teacher, college counselor, and rowing coach. In her work—whether scholarly articles or creative short stories—she focuses on nature and the environment as active presences in literature across cultures and languages.

05/25/2026

k Locey Russell is a movement artist and writer currently living and working in Richmond, Virginia. his work focuses on themes of intimacy, nostalgia, exhaustion, repetition, and obsession, and is informed by his experience as a dancer, a lover, and as a q***r transmasculine person. k is also a member of the improvisational drone and movement project controlled emergency.

05/22/2026

Jenny Sadre-Orafai is the author of Paper Cotton Leather, Malak, and Dear Outsiders and the co-author of Book of Levitations. Her poetry has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, Ninth Letter, The Pinch, and elsewhere. Her prose has appeared in The Rumpus, Fourteen Hills, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She co-founded and co-edits Josephine Quarterly and mentors and teaches at Kennesaw State University and with the Periplus Collective.

05/21/2026

Our 15th annual e-chapbook contest closes on May 31st, 2026. We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work, as well as visual poetry, poetry comics, and visual hybrid works. To find out more visit: https://www.sundresspublications.com/submit

05/18/2026

“Writing Without Words: On Gesture,” a workshop led by Stacey Balkun, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 20th from 6:00-7:30 PM EST. This event will be held over Zoom. Participants can access the event at tiny.utk.edu/sundress (password: SAFTA).

05/18/2026

Intern Brianna Eaton describes what a "traveling bookshelf" is and why you should have one too. Read more below :

I have what I like to call a “traveling bookshelf.” I go back and forth between my home and school quite often, and when I am not busy, which is rare, I try to travel as much as I can. Because of this, I have found myself losing track of my books, gaining new ones … Continue reading Project Bo...

05/18/2026

Mylo Lam was born in Vietnam and currently lives in Los Angeles. He and his family are refugees from Cambodia. Mylo’s work has been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Nightboat Books, Mānoa, Michigan Quaterly Review, and elsewhere. His multimedia work won Palette Poetry’s Brush & Lyre Prize, his poetry won Blood Orange Review's Emerging Writers Contest, and his chapbook AND NOT/AND YET was published by Quarterly West. He has an M.F.A. in Poetry from Randolph College and Ed.M. from Harvard University.

05/12/2026

Suzy Khimm is a writer and journalist based in Washington, DC. She is an award-winning national reporter for NBC News, focusing on investigative projects and narrative features about public health and social issues. She was previously a staff writer for The Washington Post and The New Republic, and has also contributed to The New York Times, Esquire, New York magazine, and Slate among other places. Outside of journalism, her writing has received support from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Wesleyan Writers Conference.