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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, […]

Update: The Grief Committee Minutes now available for pre-order!

Cover and back cover of new book by Sarah Carey, The Grief Committee Minutes, is in blue and orange with the cover showing black cranes flying against the backdrop of a blue sky and a golden sunset.

Those of you who’ve followed my news know my new book of poems is forthcoming from Saint Julian Press. The official publication date is Sept. 15…less than two months away! Yesterday, my publisher let me know he had put a press release about the book on his website, and would be populating it with pre-order […]

TGC finals for Wandering Aengus Book Award

Graphic showing winners and finalists of the 2023 Wandering Aengus Book Award.

Bring it, 2024! A sweet highlight of 2023 came toward the end of it, and I’m hoping portends more good news in the months to come. My full-length collection made the finalist list in the Wandering Aengus Book Award competition. This acknowledgement was one more form of validation for the work, which amassed some very special […]

Third Place: ASP Bulletin Poetry Contest

Image showing that Sarah Carey's poem "The Trees in Dealey Plaza Seemed Distressed" won third place in the ASP Bulletin's first annual poetry contest.

I haven’t written a lot of new poems lately, choosing to  concentrating instead on submitting poems within my book manuscript that have yet to find a home. So when I read on Blue Sky that the ASP Bulletin — a publication of Alan Squire Publishing — was holding its inaugural poetry contest, I thought, why […]