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Go, little book, go!

The cover of The Grief Committee Minutes with an oversized gold sticker at top left showing the collection was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Award competition in the poetry category. The cloudy blue background appears behind the title and fades into an orangish sunset with black sandhill crane silhouettes flying between the blue and the orange colors.

The Grief Committee Minutes was named a finalist for the 2025 Eric Hoffer Award in the poetry category.

AWP and LA, here I come…with bells (and books!)

A calendar showing events that Sarah Carey will be appearing at during the AWP writing conference in Los Angeles at the end of March in 2025.

This will be my 4th AWP conference…but my first-ever with a debut book of poems in hand to sell and sign. I’ll also be participating in first off-site reading in years with an incredible group of women poets. I can’t wait!

When memory speaks louder

Sarah Carey smiles in front of her desk at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine.

Facing the future and a key life transition: so much gratitude & respect for all who have been a part of my journey.

Big news: A contract for Christmas!

This images shows a hand holding a black pen and Sarah Carey's signature on a book contract with Mercer University Press. The contract was dated 12/17/2024.

Just when I thought I was closing out the year with as much good news as my heart could carry, came an email from the director of Mercer University Press, with the subject line, “Question.” What could he be asking, I wondered. Did I forget to attach something when I’d sent him my second book […]

What a year! 2024 goes out with a bang!

The Grief Committee Minutes is shown side by side with What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt and In Mad Love and War by Joy Harjo at Book Gallery West!

It is hard to believe that exactly one year ago, I was sending out submission after submission of my first book manuscript, hoping for the right publisher. Despite having been lucky enough to receive a few finalist nods from a few nice competitions, the book was not landing. I wasn’t sure quite what to do […]

Launch party for TGCM is in the books!

Launch party for TGCM is in the books! My book launch party was amazing. Unforgettable. Full stop. And my heart is so full! It’s been a little over two weeks since the event I’d planned for months finally took place, at the beautiful Matheson History Museum here in Gainesville, and I’m still feeling the thrill […]

Official pub day for TGCM was Sept. 14!

An image promoting the official publication day for The Grief Committee Minutes features Sarah Carey holding a copy of her book against the background of an ocean.

The Grief Committee Minutes is officially in the world, and landing in mailboxes this week! I’ve had several friends tell me they have received their pre-ordered copies; others let me know they’d been notified their copies were on their way. Hooray! On that day, this past Saturday, I was approaching the end of a week’s […]

Special delivery! My author copies of TGCM are here!

Sarah Carey holds a copy of her book, The Grief Committee Minutes, at Paynes Prairie State Park.

My author copies of The Grief Committee Minutes have arrived! I had a vision for how I wanted to capture the moment with an “unboxing” video, and amazingly, I was able to pull it off. Below is the link on my YouTube channel. Because so much of my work deals with loss of various kinds, […]