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Publications, honors and awards

Sarah has been publishing her poems in literary journals and newspapers since the 1980s.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Sugar House Review, Florida Review, Five Points, Redivider, SWWIM Every Day, Split Rock Review, Atlanta Review, Grist and many other journals.

To read some of Sarah’s recent work online and follow where she’s publishing, (see Poems.) And don’t forget to follow her on Twitter (@SayCarey1), Instagram (@skcarey1) and Facebook (@SarahKCarey) for her latest news.

Concrete Wolf Poetry Series Chapbook Award

Winner, for Accommodations, which was published in June 2019.

Barry Spacks Poetry Prize

Finalist for book-length manuscript, The Grief Committee (2023)

Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize

Finalist for book-length manuscript, The Grief Committee (2023)

Sweet Literary Poetry Contest

Finalist for "Survival Guide" (2022)

Pushcart Prize Nominee

Nominated by Split Rock Review for "What's Left of Us is Shaken" (2019)

Broad River Review Poetry Contest

Finalist for "Meanwhile, America Loses its Memory" (2020)

River Heron Review Poetry Prize

Finalist for "If the Fragment is the Story" (2022)

Pushcart Prize Nominee

Nominated by Whale Road Review for "The Beach House Offers an Elegy" (2021)

Frontier Open Poetry Prize

Longlisted, (2020)

Philadelphia Stories: Sandy Crimmins National Prize in Poetry

Semifinalist (2023)

Arthur Smith Poetry Prize (Madville Press)

Longlisted for book-length manuscript, The Grief Committee (2022)

Books

A book cover depicting a botanical image of a passion flower.
"Bloodstream"
(2026)

My second full-length book of poems, Bloodstream, is now available for pre-order at Mercer University Press. Order directly from the press here, at Amazon, or at your favorite bookseller.

The cover of The Grief Committee Minutes is blue with an orange sunset.
"The Grief Committee Minutes"
(2024)

My debut full-length book of poems, The Grief Committee Minutes (Saint Julian Press) is available for order from Bookshop,   Amazon or your favorite bookseller.

"Accommodations"
(2019)

Accommodations, winner of the 2018 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, is available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and IndieBound.

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"The Heart Contracts"
(2016)

Sarah Carey’s debut chapbook of poems, The Heart Contracts, is available for orders through Finishing Line Press and Amazon. Orders may be made online directly through the publisher’s website.

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Samples of Published Poetry Journal Covers

Sugar House Review cover
"Refuge"
Sugar House Review
(2023)
Valparaiso Poetry Review
"Lacuna"
Valparaiso Poetry Review
(2023)
Atlanta Review cover Poetry 2022
"The Chickadees Are All Up In Our Feelings"
Atlanta Review
(2022)
The Worcester Review cover
"All My Father's Heroes"
The Worcester Review
(2022)
"Space Invaders” and “Everywhere We Once Knew Wildness"
Zone 3
(2022)
"The Brazilian Peppertrees"
Twelve Mile Review
2022
"By the Bridge or By the River?"
Salamander
(2022)

Review of By the Bridge or By the River? by Amy C. Roma

Five Points Cover
"The Great Egret"
Five Points
(2021)
"Watching the Waning Gibbous Moon"
Yemassee
(2020)
"Recovery"
Grist
(2019)
"Ice-Out"
Alaska Women Speak
Fall
(2019)
"Our Last House"
Barrow Street
(2017)
"Coming Home"
Winter
(2018)
"The Changed Landscape"
The Christian Century
Spring
(2018)
"Personal Effects"
Potomac Review
(2018)
"Sinkhole"
Carolina Quarterly
(2013)
"Grandmother’s Will"
(2009)
"Upheaval"
Spring
(2007)
"My First Steps"
(2004)

finalist in the 2004 poetry competition at George Mason University

"After Dark"
Concho River Review
(2003)
"The Opal Box"
(2002)
"What Comes Out"
South Dakota Review
(2002)
"“Climbers” and “Settlement”"
The Cape Rock, the literary publication of Southeast Missouri University
Fall
(2002)
"The Heart Contracts"
Bogg
(2002)
"Breath"
Fall/Winter
(2000)
"The Service"
(1990)